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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Dead leaves, the first cold of the season and an umbrella flipped inside out: fall, the season of grace.
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, 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, 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
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
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
Today, I greeted a customer with my usual “Hi, how are you?” She started telling me, in detail, about the terrible day she was having, job stress, family issues, everything. I stood there for 10 minutes listening because I didn’t want to be rude. At the end, she sighed, “Thanks, I’m not buying anything today” and left. FML
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
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
Today, the daughter of a patient called me, again, on my direct line after I repeatedly told her she had to go through the secretary for non-urgent matters. She said, "OMG, are you serious?" and hung up on me mid-sentence while I was talking about her father. FML
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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17031990 20
She's obviously lonely. What's an hour and a half when you've probably made that woman's day!
FBellesLife 15
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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Comments (60)
rebeltw 15
she needed a friend
laden_swallow09 35
"Thank you for being a frieeeeend…"
devildog562 33
Crumple paper in the receiver and break up you're words and tap the off button.
j_cat187 20
interesting username... so chlorine gas?
NephilimPie 15
Some people just want somebody to talk to.
5secondsofvvifi 21
Exactly! And, op got to sit back and relax instead of dealing with people who just want to bitch about the company.
amileah13 26
Yikes!
vic55jets 13
So they should be euthanized? That's a little harsh..
iAmPaul 49
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
what if the call happened during this black friday weekend, OP probably had other stuff to do.
Ashd09 30
I was going to say FYL but then I read your username.....
ktpnothappening 27
Haha the user name was the best part.