Today, at work, I spent half an hour on the phone with a customer. At the end of the conversation, as he was putting down the phone, I heard him say 'God, he was a miserable git'. I'm a 28 year old woman. FML
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Questions about your love life, a burnt turkey and the cousin who knows everything: Thanksgiving, a contact sport.
Today, while at work, I had to spend an hour and a half on the phone, listening to an old lady relive her entire day in excruciating detail. We're not allowed to hang up on customers, and she was extremely quick to dismiss all my attempts to steer the call back on topic. FML
Today, I answered a call at work from a very irate gentleman. After being shouted and sworn at profusely, I ended the call in a slightly less than civil manner. Turns out that guy is one of our company's biggest clients. FML
Today, at work, I took a call from an angry customer. After listening to his problem and fully explaining how we could fix it, he called me a stupid girl and said I need more training as I obviously know nothing about my job. I'm the company training coordinator. FML
Today, while working at my call center, I took a phone call. The guy on the other line just yelled "FUCK YOU!" twice at the top of his lungs before hanging up on me. But of course, the phone agent is always at fault. FML
Today, I was on the phone with an elderly customer at work. I had to spend 10 minutes listening to him describe how the underwear he bought was too tight and caused his bladder to leak. FML
Today, I was working when I delivered the standard "Hello, how are you?" to a customer. He took the opportunity to tell me about his deceased wife, his estranged children, and his anal tearing. After a while, I tried to help someone else, and he complained to my manager. I was written up. FML
Today, a customer berated me and told me to stop whining because I have to work on the weekend. What did I do to deserve this? I said, "Hi, how are you doing today?" FML
Today, while I was working customer support, a lady hung up on me mid-sentence, and I trailed off, saying, "…aaannnddd you hung up on me like a bitch." Turned out she was still on the line and had just accidentally hit mute. FML
Today, my manager cussed me out for being unable to keep a customer happy. That "customer" was a senile old twit who had wandered away from his carer, thought our shop was his living room, and demanded to know who replaced all his furniture. FML
Today, an elderly gentleman customer decided to tell me that while I'm not attractive at all, he'd still bang me all the same. Then he gave me a pained smile, like he was struggling not to shit himself, and left. I'm starting to hate working retail. FML
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purple_sarah88 0
I'm sorry that happened. I've worked phone customer service before, customers can be so rude sometimes. No wonder you didn't sound cheery! And the only reason he thought you sounded male was because he wasn't listening. You even say your name at the start of the call! How stupid is he? It's all on him, don't take it personally.
Ninjafriends 1
Hey, you have a manly voice, who cares. It's not something you can control. However, you're still a miserable git.
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Comments (45)
mintcar 10
I used to work in retail and I understand all too well how annoying customers can be. Just suck it up. :/
SirEBC 7
Yeah, because you always had to retail everything you already told! I hate my life.
mintcar 10
I used to work in retail and I understand all too well how annoying they are. Unfortunately, there's not much you can do. :/
sircyrelle 0
Wow! I'm sorry, but that's hilarious!
fthku 13
A lot of girls who have REALLY sexy voices are fat and ugly. And dumb bimbos with the most annoying voices ever are hot. But you're neither! You're just a miserable git. You're unique! Or a Eunuch.
IneffableLullaby 13
Aww, that sucks. I wouldn't worry about it too much though. People sometimes sound a bit different on the phone than they do in real life. A few years ago, I was told I sound like my eight-year-old male cousin on the phone. Of course, he sounds pretty high-pitched for a boy, so I saw that as more of an insult to him than to me. :p
varkey 7
why does your age matter? fyl anyways
DoctorDictator 0
Age matters so (for this time) the readers of the FML knows if the girl has hit puberty.
mariet_fml 23
Meh. He could have been talking about someone else. Maybe his wife just pulled up the Facebook page of an old enemy.
cactusparrots 0
can somebody tell me what a git is?
zargon 1
It's a distributed version control system, leaps and bounds better than a more traditional style like subversion. Of course, if you want the more useful answer, Google is freely available. I'll even tell you that you'll probably get more useful results if you search for British slang.
ppriscilla 0
miserable git?
beyoh 0
I don't understand why people ask the definition of things on here (or anywhere on the Internet)... in the time it took you to type 'can someone tell me what git is', you could have opened Google and typed it in... But anyway... git is like a less rude version of 'bastard'. Normally reserved for someone who is grumpy/old-man. A lot of the time it's used in an endearing sense, or in a funny way.