by GothNinja | Feb 28, 2012 | Misc
Thanks to a push on PPI miss-sales, and attempts to get you to switch service providers (Phone, Internet, Electric, Gas, Water, Etc) plus the usual ones trying to sell Mobile Phone contracts, con you into insuring Sky etc, My incoming phone calls are 90% Cold Callers. This really annoys me because they keep interrupting me and I have added my phone number to the Governments “No cold callers list”, So I’ve now given up all pretense of being a nice polite person who politely turns down their sales pitch.
No my current method of dealing with these drones, (Which I started after the same person phoned me four times in one evening supposedly from two different companies) is to let them start their sales pitch, wait a minute then play a sound clip of
Stop Hammer time
Every time you see me that Hammer’s just so hype
I’m dope on the floor and I’m magic on the mic
Now why would I ever stop doing this
With others makin’ records that just don’t hit
I toured around the world from London to the BAY
It’s Hammer go Hammer
mc hammer yo hammer and the rest can go and play
U can’t touch this (oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh)
U can’t touch this (oh-oh oh oh oh-oh-oh)
U can’t touch this (oh-oh oh-oh-oh)
Yeah u can’t touch this
Then after all that’s played, I return to the phone with a polite “Sorry about that, it was Hammer time”
So far only one cold-caller has remained on the line to hear my response, and she was pissing herself laughing, and i heard her speak in the background “Best call EVER!!“.
I’m hoping MC Hammer can help me cut down on the callers.
by GothNinja | Feb 21, 2012 | Media
So the press is reporting on “Frankenburger” The worlds first test-tube burger. And how it could revolutionise the food industry, bring an end to world famines (Although how many third world citizens can afford the $200,000 per burger cost I don’t know) and even be eatable by animal lovers. Others are saying that no one would want to eat a bit of flesh created in a lab, Personally my views are “If it looks like Bacon, and tastes like Bacon.. I’m eating it!“. But in all fairness I am a meat eater, and happily admit that I would be the first to eat the dead in an emergency (You have to eat them fast before they go off, so eat the dead first, then emergency rations which last longer)
Hang on, I went off topic there. Oh Animal Lovers.
Its the fact they are claiming Animal lovers will eat it, and that “so called” Animal Lovers interviewed on the news stated it would be better for animals. “Err really?” I think these “Animal lovers” must love animals as much as Vegetarians (Especially the preachy ones). Lets look at the facts.
Fact. Meat for food would be grown in a lab. So Farmers would not make money selling animals for food, so they would not pay for feeding them, or vets bills. Also since the farmer is now not making money they will need to use their land to grow crops or something. So what will happen to all those animals? killed? made extinct?
What use is a pig if you cant eat it? None dairy cattle? and so on. If we stop eating them, then they loose all value. Yes its not nice eating a poor animal, but we eat it after its had a nice lazy life. SO if the preachy Vegetarians had their way and we all stopped eating meat, think of the mass slaughter of animals that would take place. I’m telling you, vegetarians are anti-animals. They are pure evil!!!
+10 Geek Points for getting the Title reference.
by CodeNinja | Feb 9, 2012 | Customers
Well technically I guess that should be “Customers are Stupid“. You do not believe me? Well here are two examples that happened this week.
Example 1:
I was being nice and answered the phone to help out the support guys, and the conversation went a bit like this :-
CN: “Good afternoon How may I help you?“
Customer: “Hi, Yes. I can’t send or receive any emails. its broke!“
CN: “OK. What error are you actually getting?“
Customer: “can not connect to server“
CN: “Ok, are you actually on the Internet?“
Customer: “YES. I am on the Internet doing things, the Internet is fine, it’s just my emails that is broken“
Customer: *noise of many people talking in background* ‘Yes. I’m on the phone to them now. Yes I have email issues. Ok I’ll pass them over to you when my mails sorted‘
CN: “You got other issues there?“
Customer: “Yes, they say we have lost the Internet. So Whats the issue with my emails?“
She honestly thought the fact they were not connected to the Internet had no connection with her problems in sending and receiving emails.
Example 2:
Now this was a ticket the Systems department had. A Customer had not been receiving any email conformation from their website for the last 3 months. And they knew from the orders that they should have had a fair few.
We had been looking into it on and off for a while since a grep of the site showed that it was not set up to actually send emails to the address they insisted received them.
So after many attempts I finally got them to check the header of an old email and give me the actual email address that the emails go to before being forwarded or downloaded to the end account.
So I have the real email address and decide to test it simply to start with. So I log into the account, and there sat in the INBOX are 50+ unread emails from the website.
Turns out they had forgotten to actually download the emails for the last few months.
Seriously, people get an IQ=IQ-100 as soon as they decide to contact our support department.
