That’s gotta be up there with “No MSG” and “I’ll respect you in the morning.”
Jerks.
One of those odd classes of paradox that becomes false by the mere fact of your hearing it. Like “I’m totally speechless” and “There’s nothing to be concerned about.”
Or “That’s all I can say”.
'nuff said.
If my call was that important to them, they’d hire enough people to answer the phone.
When the mood hits me, I wait until a person comes on the line and say, “My answer is very important to you, however, I am unavailable to answer you at this time, please hold for the next available me.”
Now THAT’S funny!
I don’t know what I hate more - the “your call is very important to us” tape or the “please hold for a very important message” tape.
Along the lines of what Mr. Blue Sky posted, I have an old email that is an “anti-rejection” letter. It goes something along the lines of:
I have been SO tempted to use this in the past, just to mess with their little minds.
Hey, I work in a call center and I’ll tell you why your call is important to us–if we don’t take care of your whiny abusive ass in the right time frame we get yelled at and/or fired.
On mornings like this one where in the course of two hours I took over sixty calls, all exactly the same thing, from herds of numb nuts who can’t understand that just because THEY’RE on the East Coast and it’s three minutes past eight ayem THEIR time doesn’t mean that on the WEST Coast (where the computer guys don’t even start until nine ayem!) the information they want isn’t available until said computer guys get off their asses, drink their morning Jolt cola and get the FUCKING WEB SITE UPDATED!!! So they bitch at me as though it were MY fault that they can’t have what they want RIGHT THIS MINUTE.
Grrrrrr… pardon rant, it’s been a bitch of a morning…