Another thing that irks me is when people call and they don’t say Hi, Hello, or anything along those lines. When I say, “Good Morning, Leader-Post, Devin Speaking”, and they go “Yeah…this is so and so” or even worse, they just grunt and say something like “I wanna talk to blah blah blah”. What is the age that you get to where you just have to be an asshole to everyone. You’re calling me, at least say Hi.
I hear that. Some people just literally don’t have any phone etiquette. It’s like they just have no clue how to be polite, or they do and just choose to be an ass.
Pretty much every phone call I’ve ever made at work begins with “Hi, this is…” Or I’ll at least ask them how they’re doing today.
I’m slightly against being asked how I am doing. I understand that they are being polite and cordial and all, but in reality, we don’t know each other, will probably never meet, and I’m never going to go into detail on how fumed I that the last person I spoke with has turned my mood a little sour. I’ve noticed that the people who ask how I am doing are usually sales calls/solicitors, and if they want to tip me off as such before going into their spiel, fine with me, less time I spend listening to them = quicker hang up.
oooh, you’re not in sales are you?
Sort of. I have walk-in traffic in a cell phone store, so I don’t ask people in person how they are unless they ask me first.
When I’m calling people, it’s not for soliciting or making a sale, so I don’t ask how they’re doing. But I do make lots of calls to people I know and have been “working with” for almost 3 years (even though I rarely see them in person), so usually I do ask them how they’re doing.
I understand completely what you’re saying!
Well that’s much more understandable, dealing with customers/clients repeatedly you should definitely build some raport. It’s those damn calls that have a threee second delay in the caller picking up, and you can clearly hear 15,763 other calls in the background, “And how are you today sir?” If I wanted what you were selling, I’d probably call you first!
^NO KIDDING.
I’d love to go off on a ten minute rant about exactly how I’m doing.
Blargfargcrapppypanties! “How are you today sir” I humor her with “I’m well thanks.” Pause pause pause pause…“That’s great. I’d like to offer you…” click
I didn’t realize this got me so riled. Maybe it’s the fact that this is what our great country has become, one great advertisement with a sales pitch-cherry on top!
Good ol’ capitalism.
Hey rich people who like it this way: the system is only working for YOU.
I’m not joking that I answer every phone call with “HERRO!!!” in a somewhat gruff voice. This gives me the opening to start spewing random Japanese gibberish if it’s a telemarketer or someone. The best is when they ask “is there anyone there who speaks English?” which results in me YELLING my Japanese gibberish until they hang up.
Ah…the small joys in life.
I have to get a physical today, I haven’t had one in 2 years… I’ma scarrrred…
^
Me too.
Neither, b/c I’ve never seen either one.
You’ra jokin, right?
Regular physicals and dental checkups are a good thing, take my word for it. If you keep an eye on the physical plant, you can deter a lot of potential problems in later life.
For instance, I wouldn’t be going through half the crap I’ve been putting up with over my gums if I had been more vigilant about them even ten years ago. There wasn’t really not enough emphasis put upon good gum hygiene, but that’s changing.
Take care of yourselves. You folks are much too important to let the evil things bring you down.
^Exactly.
Now turn your head and cough
This would be great to do. As far as the movies go, it would be hard doing the classic movies against cult favorites. You’d probably have to do them separately.
For classic movies, you could use the AFI top 100 [http://www.filmsite.org/afi100filmsA.html] list to start with. Trouble is, I would imagine the result would kind of approximate the original list so what’s the point. A cult classic list of movies would generate much more disagreement and be much more fun. And here’s one I just found [http://www.listsofbests.com/list/63]
Sometimes I like to use Google to search for Yahoo!, and then use Yahoo! to search for Google. I figure a few hours of that nonsense must get their ad agencies’ tracking systems all screwed up.
^HHAHHAHHAHAHA
Welcome to summer everyone!
You all know what that means…
my mom used to call them freeze-em-squeeze-ems.
weird, right?
maybe thats an old, defunct brand of those neat treats.
i dont know.
i had a tick on me yesterday…i honestly mistook it for a peice of hash stuck to the side of my kne…yeah that happens.