Shop Talk

I'm thinking of picking up a bluetooth headset and was debating on which to purchase. Any thoughts? I was looking at the jawbone but its a bit pricy.

REMINDER....12 days from today, all cell phone numbers are being released to telemarketing companies and you will start to receive sale calls.

.....YOU WILL BE CHARGED FOR THESE CALLS

To prevent this, call the following number from your cell phone: 888-382-1222.

It is the National DO NOT CALL list. It will only take a minute of your time.
It blocks your number for five (5) years.
You must call from the cell phone number you want to have blocked.
You cannot call from a different phone number.
HE LP OTHERS BY PASSING THIS ON TO ALL YOUR FRIENDS.
It take about 20 seconds.

OR

go to

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i just had a customer come into the store with a sprint phone. he asked me if our chargers would work with the sanyo that he had. i expalined to him that cingular does not even make sanyo phones so no none of our chargers would work. he got upset with me. i directed him to a sprint store and radioshack. he still got upset because the store were to far.( 7 miles away) what a moron.

Why is it that when your back is turned people think you can't hear them? All the time people will go to the other side of the kiosk to look at phones and whisper between themselves "Oh I love this phone. I should get it. I'm out of my Cingular contract in a week." But when you turn around to ask them how they are if they had any questions, they get this deer in the headlights stare for a moment, then stiffen up and start walking away muttering things.

The back cover on her phone is missing (I fail to understand how you can loose this but whatever, it seems to happen a LOT.)

Unfortunately it's not a phone we carry the back cover for (We have back covers for the RAZR, the Sidekick 3, the Blackberry 8700, and we're working on getting the MDA... that's it.)

I offered to give her the number for Nokia to order one from them, they'll have one seeing how they make the darn things...

But apparently that was too much effort... her response was "Oh, I'll just get a new phone.

So you know she's going to come in screaming because she wants a free replacement of her phone because it was 'defective' (Nokia 6103) and it's going to be YOUR FAULT that she isn't entitled to a 6133 for her troubl...
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a guy standing at my kiosk is looking into one of the two cases and asks:
"are these all you have?"
me- there are more phones in the next case (*i reference the next case which is about 6 feet away*)
c- (*looks at the case*) eeehhhh... i don't want to stand over there... (*walks away*)

"i don't want to stand over there"???

i, just, i, i don't know... *slams head on desk*

is there anyway to unlock the ringers downloaded from realtone jukebox so you can bluetooth them to another phone?

I found out where the customers learn to call a SIM card a Sims card... it's this idiot next to me. She also calls a Lithium Ion Battery a "lye-lon" (the abbreviation is Li-lon, I know but if you are slightly more informed that the average tree stump you know that Li-lon is just that... an abbreviation and that there is another term that you should use for the stupid thing... especially when about 30% of your daily interactions involve talking about phone batteries! You should bother to look the stupid thing up so you can talk about it.)

I want to say this to her but I don't think I don't think I could be nice about it.

And this new one is already doing the same number of acts in a week as my old one was doing. The only problem is that this store gets almost no foot traffic during the rest of the day and I am really bored. 😎

I had a woman call yesterday in a panic because she had heard that people from PETA (I'm pretty sure that's what she said) had hacked into our phones and if you used your camera that day it would wipe the phone out. 😳 👀 Didn't have much to say to that

My father wants me to reactivate an old Cingular phone he used to use as a GoPhone so he can use it to call his girlfriend since she uses Cingular. But, the activation system at work keeps kicking it back, saying "SIM is permanently disabled". So would he basically be looking at buying a new SIM card or phone, or is there something else we might be able to do?

M- me C-customer

c-I need you to replace this phone!!!
(this phone is mangled like no other...)
m-Mam unfortunatly you don't have insurance.
The least expensive phone I have here for you is $139.00
c-So just because I dropped it, you won't replace it??
m-Umm.. sorry mam, but theres nothing I can do to replace a phone you dropped without insurance.
c-WELL IM GOING BACK TO CINGULAR, because when I drop THEIR phones they NEVER break!!!
m- hahahahaha... k

Just had a guy come in wanting to activate VZW service. He just activated with Cingular 2 months ago, but has no decided he wants to change but wants a carrier to buy him out of his ETF on Cingular. Do any of your carriers do that?

"I just opened the phone and the screen is cracked. I have no idea how it happened."

Who do these liars think they are fooling?

I just got into my location after a day off and right off the bat (in case i had forgotten in my day of peace) some tool comes up to remind me how stupid custys are.
He walks up and pretty much yelling says, "hey cheif, you doin the motorola mega sale" i am confused and ask him what he is talking about and he just repeats this again. I can tell this guy is an idiot so i just ask, "what are you talking about?" He points down the hall (I work in a mall location) to a sign in front of a verzon store that says "Motorola Mega Sale" I say "yes sir, that is called an advertisement its meant to draw attention to verizon so new customers buy motorola phones from them thinking they are getting a deal" he nods, so I add "Im sure our prices for Motoro...
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A customer turns up to me and asks, "What does pink and blue make? Green?"

She was dead serious too... so I politely said, "No ma'am, it makes purple."


Are you freaking joking me?! How can an adult not know that?!

1st call is an hour long. the woman says about 45 mins through i hope you took a piss before you got this call. i really want to say no i did not so open your mouth so i have somewhere to go.

Oh y'all will get a kick out of this.

Normally when I call he port IN center I have zero trouble with them. They know what they are doing, they know stuff.

This guy is green. I know, I know folks it happens.

ME: Hi I'm calling from ******* regarding a port-IN.

REP: Umm can I have your sales ID? Your location? Your region?

ME: This is the number I need help with ###-###-####

REP: Umm this company the number is coming from? I don't have a contact number. I can't reach them.

ME: Ok.

REP: So.. what do I do?

ME: I don't know. I don't work the port-IN center.

REP: Can you hold on a minute?

ME: Sure

REP: It looks like a land line port into wireless. I'll need to transfer you to the landline services

ME: Huh?
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