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By gotta euthanize em all - 29/11/2014 19:45 - Canada

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

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By suspended - 09/08/2014 00:16 - Australia

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

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By Anonymous - 17/03/2018 05:00

Today, while working at my dead-end call centre job that couldn't get any worse, I answered a call from a customer who was having loud sex. I still needed to sound professional and tell her when a product was released. FML

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By spiderchick23 - 10/02/2011 00:41 - United States

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

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By ring-a-ding-ding - 06/12/2014 05:18 - United States - Sparks

Today, at work, due to a mix up, I had to call an answering service. I am also from an answering service. We got the problem fixed but I couldn't hang up due to company policy. She couldn't hang up either. We both had to get our supervisors for permission to hang up. FML

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By tgpgs - 19/01/2011 14:55

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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By jacks_smirking_revenge - 06/03/2009 22:31 - United States

Today, while out to lunch, my sister called me and asked me to pick her up from the mall. I told her she'd have to wait. She got pissed off and started cursing at me, so I hung up on her. She called me back 37 times until I answered and yelled "WILL YOU LEAVE ME THE FUCK ALONE?" It was my boss. FML

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The voice

By Anonymous - 11/09/2023 18:00 - Australia - Brisbane

Today, I had to listen to some old phone call recordings at work, in which a certain worker had the most annoying high-pitched voice. To my horror, I discovered that they were my call recordings, so the annoying voice was my own. My colleagues all concurred they cannot stand the sound of me talking. FML

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By Tiak - 30/03/2009 18:08 - United States

Today, my mom has been calling me every ten minutes, asking me questions about her new computer. She called me at work, and I rudely answered her question. She called back, talked to my boss, saying she was a customer that called in, and I was rude to her. FML

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By unfriendlyskies - 02/04/2012 23:40 - United States - Central Falls

Today, I called an airline's customer service line. Apparently the way that they deal with uncommon problems is by having someone put you on hold for twenty minutes, answer and yell something unintelligible at you, put you back on hold, and repeat. This went on for over an hour. FML

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Hold the line

By Anonymous - 06/07/2020 08:02

Today, I discovered that my work's new phone system automatically takes people off hold the very second you pick up the phone. I discovered this after picking up the phone and complaining to my workmates about the annoying customer I had on the line for a full minute, all while he listened. FML

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17031990 20

Sunday 30 November 2014 0:12

She's obviously lonely. What's an hour and a half when you've probably made that woman's day!

FBellesLife 15

Sunday 30 November 2014 0:11

Cheer up OP, lucky it wasn't an angry customer who was drilling you for every wrong the company has ever done to her.

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rebeltw 15

Sunday 30 November 2014 0:23

she needed a friend

laden_swallow09 34

Sunday 30 November 2014 15:09

"Thank you for being a frieeeeend…"

devildog562 33

Sunday 30 November 2014 0:25

Crumple paper in the receiver and break up you're words and tap the off button.

j_cat187 19

Sunday 30 November 2014 0:25

interesting username... so chlorine gas?

NephilimPie 15

Sunday 30 November 2014 1:00

Some people just want somebody to talk to.

5secondsofvvifi 21

Sunday 30 November 2014 7:04

Exactly! And, op got to sit back and relax instead of dealing with people who just want to bitch about the company.

amileah13 26

Sunday 30 November 2014 1:07

Yikes!

vic55jets 13

Sunday 30 November 2014 1:08

So they should be euthanized? That's a little harsh..

iAmPaul 49

Sunday 30 November 2014 1:27

You should have either faked the call breaking up or stopped responding as if the call got disconnected. She'd then hang up.

meli1195 31

Sunday 30 November 2014 1:29

what if the call happened during this black friday weekend, OP probably had other stuff to do.

Ashd09 30

Sunday 30 November 2014 1:32

I was going to say FYL but then I read your username.....

ktpnothappening 27

Sunday 30 November 2014 2:04

Haha the user name was the best part.

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