I meant “on the board.” ¡Dios!
The only condition BigT really has is hypochondria.
What the fuck are you talking about?
Wait, how that does that work? Does sunlight somehow leech nutrients or something? 
Dude, that sounds like a bunch of woo.
If you’re a night owl, just say so.
I can’t argue with the truth.
ETA: Of course I can. I do it all the time. But just this once I won’t.
A downside of making outside sales calls to existing customers is that many people are glad I called because they have a billing or technical problem, but I can say, “I don’t know, but I know who does,” and give them the tech support or billing phone number. If there’s a question about the product I should be able to answer it, but if needed I can tell them I’ll call back after I find out. Making shit up would get me fired.
An upside is the third of those “I’m glad you called” calls where they need what I’m selling. Then there are the ones who say, “I wish you called a week/month/year ago.” Had one of them today who thought if I had called them a year ago their bar and grill would not be going out of business. I’ve seen Kitchen Nightmares and know that at that point they were blaming everybody else and there was never anything I could do to save them from themselves. Especially since I just wanted to upgrade their email system. There are limits even to my powers.
I’m not Sparky, but I believe he’s referring to the fact that celiac disease affects the small intestine, not the colon. Celiac disease patients are prescribed a gluten-free diet. Gluten is currently the trendy thing to cut out of your diet, so there are tons of self-diagnosed “gluten intolerance” sufferers running around right now.
I’m pretty immune to this in general, but did think doing it in Opal’s memorial thread was completely inappropriate. There really are times and places where we don’t have to be reminded. Just saying.
IF you’ve worked in a call center, you either worked in some very sleazy ones or wildly misunderstood something. I’ve worked in several, and was NEVER given such instructions. In the ones I’ve worked in, it was EXPECTED that I would be honest with the customer if I didn’t know the answer, but that I would also do what I could to obtain the information they needed, such as consulting a lead or supervisor. I was NEVER told that lying to a customer was acceptable.
Oh, they don’t explicitly tell you to lie - what you’re told is that you have to help the customer, you absolutely can not be negative/say know/say you don’t know, and if you don’t know you have to “figure it out” on the fly, don’t bother your manager. Riiiiiight…
And you are completely right - such a company is a complete hellhole scum-sewer. Which, again, is why I don’t put up with that shit. Saying it doesn’t exist, though, is like saying there aren’t crooked businessmen, con-men, and so forth. Sure, people do stupid shit, abuse their employees, and break the law every day.
Which, of course, just makes it harder for those genuinely suffering from the disorder. The hypochondriacs can “cheat” from time to time with no consequences, play the drama-queen, and convince everyone that anyone claiming the disorder is faking it.
I at least was attempting to point out what you seem to wish to overlook, which is that your blanket indictment of ALL call centers does not match the direct experience of other posters or observable reality in general. (I do not presume to speak for any other poster, we’re all pretty articulate around here.)
What does celiac disease have to do with this thread?
I’m guessing I missed a post somewhere. Wouldn’t be the first time.
ETA: I missed “celiaced colon” in the OP. Got it. Apologies.
I used colon and intestine interchangeably. I was upset. Sue me. I know what fucking Celiac is. I’m on a doctor enforced gluten-free diet. I’ll admit that the dairy thing is self imposed, but I noticed that, since I’ve stopped eating dairy, I’ve been much less tired, and the few times I’ve tried going back on dairy, I’ve been wiped out the next day.
But, honestly, why the fuck does it matter? If I was avoiding dairy because I thought there were little green men in it that would invade my asshole and make me fart all the time, it still doesn’t make it right that this little old man told my mom this was non-dairy when it’s just lactose free.
I only mentioned the Celiac because I knew I was going to get someone who was going to say it was no big deal and that I shouldn’t have been upset. I wanted you to know all the confounding factors before you made that judgment.
I’m not sure if I’m going to address everyone in this thread. But I’ll cover a few. Guin, you have the rationale backwards. I sleep a lot because of my Celiac’s. (The reason I got the diagnosis was tiredness.) I don’t get why Ambivalid hates me so much, when I’m one of the few people who defended him when he first came to this board. (And, honestly, I was mistaken. I thought you were just troubled because you were crippled, but your picking on me when I’ve been nothing but nice to you has made me reconsider.)
I don’t know how the fuck you guys think I’m trolling. My sincerity should be obvious to absolutely everyone on this board by now. The worst thing I’ve done is deliberately being annoying to some people in a very specific way: I know that explaining myself in the Pit instead of fighting back pisses a certain set of people off, but, since all of them treat me like shit, I don’t really care. Plus, not responding at all pisses a certain other set of people off. And, anyways, many of you have made it clear that my mere existence on this board pisses you off.
I’ll admit it is a bit gratifying repeatedly seeing you guys attack me for shit you do yourselves, though. If anyone had any reason to think people were trolling, it would be me, since your opinion of a lot of things seem to change when I come into the room, and, coincidence of all coincidences, you say specifically the things I’ve told you in the past bug me. And I note that many other people share at least some of my opinions on things, yet they are not treated the way I am. Heck, it happened in this very thread!
I’ve made this clear in the past, but I’ll do so again. I have no requirement to change my posting style because it pisses you off. I tried changing for you guys for almost six weeks (because a nice poster asked me to), and I got shit on all the more. I stopped and started biting back, and, whadayaknow, most of the shit stopped. Now, as long as I avoid pit threads that other people start, and don’t start my own, I’m generally treated okay by all but one person.
Well, since I’ve almost touched on everything but the people who actually stayed on topic, I guess I’ll finish it out. Staying up all night doesn’t make you need 16 hours of sleep, nor does it make it where you can’t think and almost faint. One thing you guys seem to have never figured out is that is that I am not stupid. I may say “tarded” things, but the only thing any of you who attack me have on me is life experience and maybe better command of insults.
I stayed away from this thread because it was my fucking birthday, and I was already rather upset. I knew that a certain group of cowards would use this thread to attack me again, and I didn’t want to have those types of thoughts on my birthday.
And, finally, as for the subject of Fenris. He crossed a line when he tried to get me banned because he hates me. While I may sometimes respond to a point he has brought up, I have decided never to actually talk to him again**. It’s the same thing I’ve done with the other Republican*** on this board without any morals. The guy hates me because I got mad about being pitted and posted about it in another thread. He thinks that the way you should treat people who annoy you is to deliberately not tell them what it is, because it’s not his job. He has decided to hate me at a level beyond any of the rest of you, and I just don’t have time for him anymore.
I probably should have given up on him a long time ago, but I like a lot of his other posts when he’s not attacking me (back when that wasn’t 50% of his posts here). But when a guy’s hatred stands out amongst a sea of haters, you kinda just have to let it go.
Before I end this stupid post I probably shouldn’t have started, I’ll briefly say I’m glad a few people seem to understand what’s so infuriating about this, and I’ll definitely give kudos to Guin for that last post where she pointedly doesn’t attack me, even though she thinks something I said is stupid. I’m glad some of you actually wanted to discuss what this thread was about. I’m sorry you didn’t really get to.
*Unless he apologizes, which I’m pretty sure will never happen. I know it’ll piss him off to hear this (so, OMG, I’m trolling him!), but I really do hate the sin and not the sinner. And even though I know you’ll make fun of me for calling him this, I do in fact choose to forgive my enemies. It’s just that, unless he apologizes, we really have nothing to say to each other, and I’m happier pretending he doesn’t exist. Hopefully he will some day be able to do the same, instead of letting me live rent-free in his head for so long.
**Not shitting on Republicans, just noting a commonality. And I’m deliberately not saying the other guy’s name because he’s been kind enough not to post in this thread.
***One more footnote for the road!
For the record, my only contribution to this thread was a post saying that your only ailment was hypochondria. You are a hypochondriac, aren’t you?
ETA: I’m confused as to how you’ve reached the opinion that I hate you. I don’t really have much of an opinion one way or another, honestly.
You fucked up your footnotes, you idiot.
That’s bullies for you - they just don’t know when to stop. The guy’s on the ground! It’s easier to kick him! Also, don’t forget to attack anyone who isn’t a victim-kicker who happens to wander by.
Bullies are scum.
It’s BigTard. You expected better? Seriously?
Why don’t you just start breaking femurs? You could give this thread the Karate Kid XXII fantasy ending you wish your junior high school years had.
It was the bullies who conflated what I said into the “Karate Kid” but hey, don’t let me disturb your fantasies.
And by the way - thanks for proving my point promptly. You may now resume kicking BigT.
It was your ridiculous stories that brought about the Karate Kid references.
Gee, thanks!