Shop Talk

Not 1 single activation yet and I have been here since 9am ☹️ It's been stupid C.S. all day

working on labor day... (overtime pay and such, work at a call center)

Browsing through phonescoop doing "research" (that's what i tell my manager anyway) and i'm constantly amazed about how stupid some customers can be. Having given up on my younger dreams and I've been to create new ones that mean more (hard to be a particle physicist when you suck at math and I throw a football like a 60 year old man, pretty much that's out the window) I feel like i'm in the midst of a crisis i'm 27 married with an amazing daughter... time to set new goals and want different stuff with my life...

1.) Get closer to spiritual peace through God (who's name just happens to be John... imagine that)

2.) Make money (so i can shove it in the face of my...
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What pda should I get?

I swear no one in this mall has bought anything from anyone! There are actually a decent number of people here, but no one is carrying any shopping bags from anywhere! It's not just my kiosk they aren't buying anything from, but everyone. Why o WHY! Oh well at least the Chipotle guy put a lot of sour cream on my burrito...

and im at work... anyone else slaving away too? 👿

One hour to go! Swear to god I'm leaving at 5. I don't care if there is a line halfway down the block full of new activations.

us over at then new at&t are but at least making big bux to give away these crappy refurbished fones, the tattooed dude up north

Who is open today, its 10:22 am and we have had one bill pay since we opened at 9:00 am.

😕

I have a feeling 5:00 isnt going to come quickly

K so I live in Ohio and work in Kentucky. Easy enough right? Hell no today they are having their yearly Labor day fireworks nonsense. So, the person who is working at my store today (I am filling in so I am north of the border 🙂 ) has to go like 40 minutes out of his way to get back into Ohio since they will have every river crossing blocked. And the thing that kills me is it is not just a yearly thing. Between disaster preparedness drills, construction, and various celebrations involving riparian entertainments (bonus points to whoever can tell me what show that is from) there is probably 10 to 15 days out of the year that I have to go way the hell out of town just to get across. Anyone else have this issue?

I am not even suppose to be here, but I come in early cause no one was able to open due to projectile puking. So I come in, and this guy walks up. I haven't open. Everything is still off except the lights.

Me: Hello, sir, it will be just a min before I will be able to help you.

Jerk: NO. You are late. I want service now. I already wasted a hour of my time waiting for you and you want me to wait to take your slow time opening and suffer for your lateness.

Me: Actually, I am early, sooooo yes I do expect you to wait.

I go back to opening.

Jerk: I DEMAND service right now are I will call security.

Now, act this time I want him to leave, and if he call security we will be fine for not being here cause in the mall they have noth...
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are we supposed to get paid extra for working today since its a national holiday???

my co worker was pissed at out boss (the owner) and found a new job without telling anyone here at work. so yesterday (payday) he comes in at 3 to start his shift and i leave to go cash my check and go home or the day and do back to school shopping for my kids.

at 3:20-- THREE FLUNKING TWENTY!!!--- I get this phone call:

B: M do you know where he is?
M: 🤨 No, I'm out running some errands, grocery and BTS shopping and paying on my car loan, why?
B: well mall security called me and said that he is quitting immediately and leaving the store and not coming back, the kiosk is closed.
M: 😳
B: are you able to go back in and close tonight?
M: 🤨 I got things I need to do TODAY, including put food in the fridge, I won't be a...
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Anyone in sales, in NW Oregon, need a job? We have had very pathetic applicants and I am sick of working hung over on sunday!

She said her phone had liquid damage and she needed a replacement. I asked her if the device was salvagable since she wasnt eligible for a discount and didnt have insurance. She asked what I meant. I said exactly this: "Ma'am. Is the device soaked all the way through to where its dripping or did it just get like a little spritz? If its not completely soaked you may want to consider letting it dry, then trying it out."

This b!tc# is gonna ask me, "If i dropped you in the pool how wet would you be?"

Well s#!t lady, if I killed you, how dead would you be? What a wh()r3. How dare you cop an attitude with me. Im trying to save you some money you grubby sk@nk. I didnt KNOW she dropped it in the pool...

Some people are so ungrate...
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Like:

Customer: Is the Nokia 6030 a good phone?

Me: Heck Yeah. And it's cool too, Paris Hilton carries it when she doesn't wanna lug around that big sidekick.

or

Customer: I work construction. Will this phone hold up?

Me: Sir, Samsung makes all of their phones out of the materials used to build the space shuttle. Of course it will.

Anyone who works for a company that uses surf control, let me know if you have found any gaming sites that don't get restricted. I am freakin addicted to text twist and bored.

How many of you who worked for Sprint Nextel Inc. in one of their kiosks are now working for Enhanced Wireless or another Sprint Nextel authorized dealer because of Sprint Nextel's decision to divest themselves of the majority of the kiosks? Which one do you now work for and do you wish you were still a corporate retail employee?

...I look like the Sprint guy from the Alltel commercials. 😕

So we officially care the Motorola V9...being the phone whore that I am, I am going to pay the $450 to buy one without a new contract... I'm so excited and everyone hates me for getting that phone because they think I'm wasting my money. I love my Motorola V3xx... Isnt it logical to get the next upgrade to it?

...any where else besides the wireless industry that exposes you to such a high, and possibly dangerous, level of stupid people? I have worked at Subway, manual labor and catering and it does not compare. Even when I was working at a lumber yard with illegals and crazy white trash tweakers idiocracy did not run rampant. They may not be educated, and some rarely slept at least they could comprehend simple concepts.