So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

[fashion frank]

I've never had anything but a landline, going back to the days when it was just "a line." I resist on principle the idea that I need to be "on call" around the clock, especially when it comes to work.

As for automated phone systems, that's late-stage capitalism in action: every one of those installed is a switchboard operator or office manager who doesn't have to be paid. The convenience of the customer is very much a minor consideration.

" The convenience of the customer is very much a minor consideration " boy that's a mouthful!

It irk's me when that automated voice states "your call is very important to us ,thank you for your cooperation " what a joke, what cooperation you have no choice they have you at their mercy, and " your call is very important to us" if it was so important why am I on hold for 20 minutes?
When I finally get a person I ask them " since I held for twenty minutes ,can you now hold for twenty minutes " most of the time I get dead air on the other end and then I get "I'm sorry for that sir " .

I try to always use business that advertise that they a real person on the other end like my insurance company ,I figure I'll get better service and I'm keeping someone in a job.

All the Best,Fashion Frank

 

[2jakes]

[video=youtube;6ChWWWTimlA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ChWWWTimlA[/video]

 

[fashion frank]

That Was The Bonb !!

[video=youtube;6ChWWWTimlA]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ChWWWTimlA[/video]

Thanks for sharing 2 Jakes that was hilarious !

All the Best,Fashion Frank

 

[p51]

I saw an interview with a highway patrol officer on TV recently and he was asked what annoying things he deals with and he said how common it is now once he pulls someone over and walks up to the car, and they keep talking on the phone holding the one finger up for that "wait a second" gesture. He said it's also hardly ever a call of any importance. He said he's actually had to pull people out of cars and physically pry the phones out of their hands after a few warnings. :eeek:

Yeah that is what bothers me the most. Foolish people walk around sharing stuff about themselves that I do not want to know and they would never tell me face to face. They sure will blab it to the world on a bluetooth though. I don't want to know what the social disease du jour is and I really don't want to know how you got rid of it.

People of their ilk (I've never liked ilk much) seem to forget that other people can heard them. The other day I heard a woman talking about the results of her pap smear, in great (and sickening) detail. I wouldn't want to know that much even if it'd been my wife! And worse yet, she was standing in line in a cafeteria waiting to order food! Yeah, she got the stink eye from weak stomached folks, but she was oblivious to that, too.

But lately, I just click the “O” for operator & I eventually will get a live person.

You won't be getting a person much longer like that. I've noticed companies have caught onto that and "0" is no longer an option for anything these days, accordingly.

 

[fashion frank]

You won't be getting a person much longer like that. I've noticed companies have caught onto that and "0" is no longer an option for anything these days, accordingly.

P51 That's exactly what I do and your right I've noticed lately you cant even get away with that there is no option for pressing "o" and when you do you get nothing.
All the Best,Fashion Frank

 

[LizzieMaine]

that[/I] much even if it'd been my wife! And worse yet, she was standing in line in a cafeteria waiting to order food! Yeah, she got the stink eye from weak stomached folks, but she was oblivious to that, too.

We once had a proctologist standing in the popcorn line yapping in detail into his cellphone about what he'd found inside some old lady's colon. We didn't sell much popcorn that night.

 

[2jakes]

And this is dedicated to those whose principle dictates landline only !

[video=youtube;c2AsU2WpJnc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2AsU2WpJnc[/video]

 

[fashion frank]

That was another good one, Kangaroo Farm everything's jumping, Too much!

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

 

[Hercule]

P51 That's exactly what I do and your right I've noticed lately you cant even get away with that there is no option for pressing "o" and when you do you get nothing.
All the Best,Fashion Frank

http://gethuman.com/

 

[fashion frank]

http://gethuman.com/

Thanks Hercule for the tip that looks to be very useful.

All the Best,Fashion Frank

 

[Hercule]

"you-guyses" instead of your.

 

[jamespowers]

"you-guyses" instead of your.

:doh:

 

[LizzieMaine]

Everybody knows the correct word is "yez." "Hey, izzat yez?"

 

[swanson_eyes]

"you-guyses" instead of your.

guilty at times

 

[GHT]

"you-guyses" instead of your.

We Brits have our slang, our expressions and our language distortions, so I'm not pointing fingers.
When I first heard Y'all, I thought it was a southern word, something like yorl, it took a wife, two American friends a good slug of Tennessee Mash before I believed it to be a corruption of You-all.

 

[Fading Fast]

It doesn't tick me off, but I get a kick out of the few remaining "Brooklynese" words that I still hear regularly spoken in NYC. "Axe" as in he "axed" me a question. "Dem" as in I gave it to "dem" (them). "Yous" as the plural of you. To be clear, I genuinely enjoy hearing these words used as (1) they are redolent of a time when they were much more prevalent in NYC and (2) it is not a sign of smarts or whatever as I work in finance and for years, some of the smartest traders I knew spoke like that. I love that those people gainsayed the stereotype.

Wall Street used to hire a lot of local kids - this was before you needed a MBA and CFA just to sweep the floors - into the "back office" (where trades got processed) and the smart and ambitious would get a shot on the trading floors overtime. Hence, you had a lot of Brooklyn, Jersey, etc. "kids" doing very well on Wall Street when I started in the '80s. There is very, very little, if any, of that happening today.

 

[LizzieMaine]

One of my most prized radio recordings is a live broadcast of a New York City Council meeting from 1938, in which just about every speaker has a pure Archie Bunker accent. All except council member/union leader/former IRA member Mike Quill, who spaaakes in a rich brougue right from the stroits of County Kerry.

 

[2jakes]

"Michael J. Quill is probably best remembered for his role in the citywide transit strike back in 1956 that brought
New York City transit system to a grinding halt."


Michael J. Quill: Fearless Father of the TWU

 

[HudsonHawk]

We Brits have our slang, our expressions and our language distortions, so I'm not pointing fingers.
When I first heard Y'all, I thought it was a southern word, something like yorl, it took a wife, two American friends a good slug of Tennessee Mash before I believed it to be a corruption of You-all.

It's not a corruption, it's a contraction. Like "can't", "don't" and "fixin'ta"

 

[HudsonHawk]

It doesn't tick me off, but I get a kick out of the few remaining "Brooklynese" words that I still hear regularly spoken in NYC. "Axe" as in he "axed" me a question. "Dem" as in I gave it to "dem" (them). "Yous" as the plural of you. To be clear, I genuinely enjoy hearing these words used as (1) they are redolent of a time when they were much more prevalent in NYC and (2) it is not a sign of smarts or whatever as I work in finance and for years, some of the smartest traders I knew spoke like that. I love that those people gainsayed the stereotype.

Wall Street used to hire a lot of local kids - this was before you needed a MBA and CFA just to sweep the floors - into the "back office" (where trades got processed) and the smart and ambitious would get a shot on the trading floors overtime. Hence, you had a lot of Brooklyn, Jersey, etc. "kids" doing very well on Wall Street when I started in the '80s. There is very, very little, if any, of that happening today.

All the Brooklynese I know I learned from Bugs Bunny. He could lay it on thick.