MickyD Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Just had a telesales person call me. She had a Far eastern accent. Herro. Ees that meester D_________? No, I'm sorry, he's out at work. I'm actually a burglar and ham stealing all his house contents. Solly! Ees there maybee a better time to reeng him? Not really because this telephone; I'm about to put it in my pocket and steal that as well. Er, OK, thank you for speaking to me. Have a nice day.
Guest Frandsen08 Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 daft bint. did she say what she was trying to sell?
Pablo Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Fire alarms............Micky you inconsiderate bastard, do you know that Fire Alarms save lives !!!
MickyD Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 If there's one thing I don't need it's a fire alarm. We have hundreds to give awaty at work. Let me know if you want one. (May be better if you live within Greater Manchester though)
Boothy Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Should just say yeah, hold on i'll get him and leave your phone for a while.
bwfc2003 Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 One of the best decisions I made was to get a phone with caller display - if its a number I dont recognise, or more usually a with held number, I just let it go to voicemail
Breightmet Boy Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 If there's one thing I don't need it's a fire alarm. We have hundreds to give awaty at work. Let me know if you want one. (May be better if you live within Greater Manchester though) Is it cost effective to deliver them in a big red rascal Micky because apparently the Fire Service do
MickyD Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Is it cost effective to deliver them in a big red rascal Micky because apparently the Fire Service do So I'm led to believe. The problem is, if they use firemen to put them up, they need to take the fire engine in case they get a fire.
tarian1979 Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 i just put the phone down without saying a tap once i know its a cold caller
Sweep Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Sometimes, if I am bored, I ask them if they can hold the line whilst I finish something. I then go back and check every few minutes to let them know I won't be much longer. I've had one call hanging on for over 20 minutes once, then they asked if I wanted solar panels, I told the it was a rented property and with that they'd went away.
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 If there's one thing I don't need it's a fire alarm. We have hundreds to give awaty at work. Let me know if you want one. (May be better if you live within Greater Manchester though) "greater Manchester"? Disbanded in 1988
birch-chorley Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Sometimes, if I am bored, I ask them if they can hold the line whilst I finish something. I then go back and check every few minutes to let them know I won't be much longer. I've had one call hanging on for over 20 minutes once, then they asked if I wanted solar panels, I told the it was a rented property and with that they'd went away. You would have been doing him a favour, most telesales staff are targeted on sales and KPI's. When I did it we used to have to achieve 3 hours talk time each day. You would give your right bollock for someone to put you on hold for 20minutes.
jules_darby Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 You would have been doing him a favour, most telesales staff are targeted on sales and KPI's. When I did it we used to have to achieve 3 hours talk time each day. You would give your right bollock for someone to put you on hold for 20minutes. It may help you hit a kpi but it certainly won't make you any sales Which illustrates the problem with such kpi's
no balls Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 "greater Manchester"? Disbanded in 1988 Never happened in my world anyway.
MickyD Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Greater manchester the geographical feature which incorporates such delightful places as bolton, wigan, oldham, rochdale, stalybridge, stockport and others is still very much there. Greater manchester county council went in 1988 happen. Least, I hope that's the right way round otherwise who the fuck do I work for?
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Greater manchester the geographical feature which incorporates such delightful places as bolton, wigan, oldham, rochdale, stalybridge, stockport and others is still very much there. Greater manchester county council went in 1988 happen. Least, I hope that's the right way round otherwise who the fuck do I work for? Greater Manchester Fire Service Just a name
MickyD Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 My daughter represented greater manchester at English Schools Athletics in summer. Just a name? No, definately a place.
Guest Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 My daughter represented greater manchester at English Schools Athletics in summer. Just a name? No, definately a place. no doubt you and her are proud "greater mancunians"
MickyD Posted December 19, 2011 Author Posted December 19, 2011 Absolutely not. I'm as proud a Lancastrian as any other. Thing is, I don't work for lancashire fire service and daughter doesn't chuck javelins for them. We have lancs as a postal address but can't do too much about a boundary change nearly 40 years ago.
bolty58 Posted December 19, 2011 Posted December 19, 2011 Micky - no surrender. Bolton, Lancashire - as it was meant to be. Greater Manchester my arse.
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