Customer Service

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    Gloomy Mushroom

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    Before you start to work as customer support person you should read this (it's fairly long as there are several stories) -

    Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
    Customer: "OK."
    Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
    Customer: "No."
    Tech Support: "OK. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
    Customer: "No."
    Tech Support: "OK, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this point?"
    Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."
    Tech Support: "OK, did you type 'click' with the keyboard?"
    Customer: "I have done something dumb, right?"

    ~​

    One woman called Dell's toll-free line to ask how to install the batteries in her laptop. When told that the directions were on the first page of the manual the woman replied angrily, "I just paid $2,000 for this damn thing, and I'm not going to read the book."

    ~​

    Customer: "I received the software update you sent, but I am still getting the same error message."
    Tech Support: "Did you install the update?"
    Customer: "No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get it to work?"

    ~​

    Customer: "I'm having trouble installing Microsoft Word."
    Tech Support: "Tell me what you've done."
    Customer: "I typed 'A:SETUP'."
    Tech Support: "Ma'am, remove the disk and tell me what it says."
    Customer: "It says '[PC manufacturer] Restore and Recovery disk'."
    Tech Support: "Insert the MS Word setup disk."
    Customer: "What?"
    Tech Support: "Did you buy MS word?"
    Customer: "No..."

    ~​

    Tech Support: "Ok, in the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you see the 'OK' button displayed?"
    Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"

    ~​

    Customer: "Huh...I need help unpacking my new PC."
    Tech Support: "What exactly is the problem?"
    Customer: "I can't open the box."
    Tech Support: "Well, I'd remove the tape holding the box closed and go from there."
    Customer: "Uhhhh...ok, thanks...."

    ~​

    Customer: "I'm having a problem installing your software. I've got a fairly old computer, and when I type 'INSTALL', all it says is 'Bad command or file name'."
    Tech Support: "Ok, check the directory of the A: drive-go to A:/ and type 'dir'."
    Customer: reads off a list of file names, including 'INSTALL.EXE'.
    Tech Support: "All right, the correct file is there. Type 'INSTALL' again."
    Customer: "Ok." (pause) "Still says 'Bad command or file name'."
    Tech Support: "Hmmm. The file's there in the correct place - it can't help but do something. Are you sure you're typing I-N-S-T-A-L-L and hitting the Enter key?"
    Customer: "Yes, let me try it again." (pause) "Nope, still 'Bad command or file name'."
    Tech Support: (now really confused) "Are you sure you're typing I-N-S-T-A-L-L and hitting the key that says 'Enter'?"
    Customer: "Well, yeah. Although my 'N' key is stuck, so I'm using the 'M' key...does that matter?

    ~​

    Customer: "Hello. I can't get on the network."
    Tech Support: "Ok. Just read me your asset number so we can open an outage."
    Customer: "What is that?"
    Tech Support: "That little barcode on the front of your computer."
    Customer: "Ok. Big bar, little bar, big bar, big bar ..."

    ~​

    And the best for last!!!!
    Customer: "I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and now my A: drive won't work."
    Tech Support: "Your A drive won't work?"
    Customer: "That's what I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in my drive, now it won't work at all."
    Tech Support: "Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages did you get?"
    Customer: "I didn't get any error message. The disk got stuck in the drive and wouldn't come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it out. That didn't work either."
    Tech Support: "You did what sir?"
    Customer: "I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk out, but it wouldn't budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit."
    Tech Support: "I don't understand sir, did you push the eject button?"
    Customer: "No, so then I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a turkey baster and put the butter in the drive, around the disk, and that got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out fine. I can't believe you would send me a disk that was broken and defective."
    Tech Support: "Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A: drive and used pliers to pull the disk out?" At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned at the other techs to listen in.
    Tech Support: "Just so I am absolutely clear on this, can you repeat what you just said?"
    Customer: "I said I put butter in my A: drive to get your crappy disk out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out."
    Tech Support: "Did you push that little button that was sticking out when the disk was in the drive, you know, the thing called the disk eject button?"

    Silence.

    Tech Support: "Sir?"
    Customer: "Yes."
    Tech Support: "Sir, did you push the eject button?"
    Customer: "No, but you people are going to fix my computer, or I am going to sue you for breaking my computer!"
    Tech Support: "Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our company because you put the disk in the A: drive, didn't follow the instructions we sent you, didn't actually seek professional advice, didn't consult your user's manual on how to use your computer properly, instead proceeding to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the disk out?"
    Customer: "Ummmm."
    Tech Support: "Do you really think you stand a chance, since we do record every call and have it on tape?"
    Customer: (now rather humbled) "But you're supposed to help!"
    Tech Support: "I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for you. Have a nice day."






    LMAO !!!
     
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    Ophelia

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    Awesome.

    That reminds of me working layaway at Walmart on Black Friday. Some of the people that I dealt with that day, made me want to seriously kill someone.
     
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    Theazninvasion68

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    :lol: this is why I dread customer service.



    Even if it's being a Waiter.
     
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    Chris.

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    :lol: I get stupid ass questions like these all the time at work, of course a monitor at a bowling alley is infinitely easier to use than an actual computer.
     
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    aki*lp

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    I remember my sister's friend used to work in McDonald's and someone order a vegetarian Big Mac :|
     
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    Dean

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    I did that once, except I was pranking this local takeaway place and asking them if their fried chicken was vegan.
     
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    minusxerø

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    Ever ask for a cheeseburger with no cheese? :lol:
     
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    Daniel

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    I get some stupid questions as a checkout operator, but these just take the cake. :lol:
     
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    Heavy is the Louis

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    Can I check you out, operator?

    ...

    Did I just ask that? ..the fuck?

    *sighs* I need sleep.
     
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    Casual D

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    Working in customer service and answering the phones 40 hours a week I can assure you that...yes, customers really ARE that stupid.

    Thanks for the post. Made me smile.
     
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    Harlz

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    Seriously, I'm the register supervisor for one of the biggest business' in the country, and if there's one thing I've learnt more than anything else, its that customers are the stupidest fucking people in the world.
     
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    JJ

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    i love reading stuff like that :lol:
     

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