yeah, just read that off any old way * posted 11/9/2007 11:02:00 AM | 2 kudos what's this?     report abuse tagged: joke, engineering, support

mojorisin

i know that the label actually has dashes on it, but just read those numbers to me however you feel like it. don't bother pausing or anything. just read them right off. in fact, read them as fast as you'd like. maybe you're in a hurry or something. maybe you have to go to the bathroom. i dunno. but one thing is for certain- you should just read those numbers off however you please.

oh sure, i'm trying to help solve an issue for you. and to do so efficiently i should probably be able to hear what the f*ck you're saying. but you know what? just read those off like you're playing "beat the clock."

ah, i like what you've done here. you read off "000-0xxxx-xxxxx-xxx" as "four zeroes, xxxxxxxxxxxxxx." it confused the hell out of me. but hey, who am i? i'm just some guy that wants to be sure your equipment functions properly. "four zeroes" and ignoring the formatting is entirely appropriate when rattling off numbers to someone.

hey, why not just do the same thing in other situations? i think that would speed things up a bit. if you know that the doctor is going to ask you to cough 3 times, even tho it may be over a certain amount of times, just give them 3 coughs all at once. they'll love that! oh, and if they tell you to take your pills 3 times daily, just take all your pills for the day at once. that will come out swimmingly.

you know that hottie at your work? yeah, why don't you just give them your phone number like you spew numbers out at me. don't bother letting them write anything down. just shove some numbers into their ear-gullet and see how they like it. they'll call you first chance they get. this works best if you take a gruff tone as well.

how fortuitous! someone who finally knows how to read off a MAC address properly! why bother with colon delimitation? 00:50:0E:15:4a:6b reads so much better as 00500e154a6b. sure, the next person may actually have to enter this stuff into fields in order to look it up, but that's their problem, now isn't it? just save yourself some time. oh, and then take an impatient tone when they ask you to repeat it 4 times. after all, they should be listening to you since you are asking their help.

while we're at it, instead of doing any testing while we're on this call, how about if you top it all of with a nice cherry, such as by asking if i can just call you back when it's fixed? yeah, i have no idea what your equipment is doing since you're in front of it and i'm not. and rebooting this thing remotely could wipe out whole areas of your customer base, so i would rather you monitor it coming up. but go ahead, just request that this be fixed all for you. and have me call you back when it's done.

by the way, your doctor called. your arm is fixed and ready to be picked up. maybe you can drop off your larynx while you're there, and he'll have it fixed by next wednesday.

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