Shop Talk

You try to drink your phone... Our store has a cordless phone, and when I'm on this computer, I sit it next to me. I was sitting here, reading some stuff on phonescoop, and I picked up the cordless phone and tried to drink it... 😕 I guess I need to get more sleep at night.

so at about 1:00 PM I start thinking where do I want to eat. at that point in the day it had been very slow and now customers won't stop coming in its like they know I want to eat. and nobody's buying any thing they just want to complain or do an esn swap and walk right behind the counter and sit in the empty computer seat next to me its terrible

Lol I'm such a horrible person... it's great. 🤣 😈 🤣 I can't help but smile every time some retarded teenage trailer trash mom brings her 3 little ****s into my store and they wont stop running around being crazy and the mom won't do anything. Eventually one of the kids runs into the wall or leans back in a chair and falls and hits their head, and once I had a kid climb up on the table and jump on one of the other kids' head. Then the kids start screaming and crying and the mom just yells at them and keeps trying to by a phone. I can't wait for the day the kid realizes his mom is a peice of crap and smothers her with a pillow in her sleep and then burns down the trailer. MWA HA HA HA HA! 😈 I have been transformed...
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Hello. I am new to Phone Scoop -- and the cell phone industry -- and I must say that reading your threads has helped many slow days go by quicker. (Although I cannot post AT work). 😢 So, I decided to return the favor. I know all of you went gung-ho over the Adventures of Bob the Typical Cingular Customer -- which I found greatly amusing -- but now I am here to step-up, if you will, and begin my own little writing excursions to help pass your time when you're sitting in your cubicle/desk/kiosk, just waiting for the end of your shift to come.

Basically, I am writing to see what you guys and gals think about this. I just needed a verbal "okay" before I went about wasting forum space with my own fictional ramblings. If you guys wo...
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..flame away..

Seriously, I've had no less than 10 people today ask me to point them to T-Mobile/Cingular/Sprint/Nextel; it's a Verizon Wireless kiosk, not an information desk, so stop asking me to point you to someplace ELSE to get a cell phone.

And for that matter, stop asking me for directions, period. Seriously, you JUST passed the sign that said "Duck Boat Tours this way" with a big sasfdasd arrow pointing down this hall, stop asking "oh, are the Duck Boat Tours down this way?".

tax? why do I have to pay tax for this or that etc..... I hear this every single day and now i'm just so use to it it goes out the other ear. I even printed out stuff that says, TAX IS CHARGED BY THE STATE, so stop asking me why there's tax.

So how many poor saps are stuck working today? Somebody in our management decided we should be open from 7am - 6pm... anybody who normally would have worked before 10 gets the 7 am shift. Just shoot me. 4:30 in the morning comes AWFUL early when you have to actually haul you sleepy butt out of bed (especially when your dogs KNOW it's too early to get up and try to lay on you to keep you in bed.)

and it hurts! 😢

I had a lady come in today she tryied to play ith the sidekick demo the plastic demo she started looking very upset i asked her whatwas wrong she said why should i buy tis phone this one for the store is brand new and already the screen is frozen i had to go to the back to laugh 😎

I work at a verizon indirect dealer, some guy purchased a V3M outright yesterday and today tries to return it to me with a T-mobile dummy hone in te box, it isn't even the same color. how stupid do these people think i am!?!?

why do asains and arabics ALWAYS want everything for free, im know it may sound so racist and insensative, but its the truth, every time i get one of those customers they want the most expensive phone for free, with free accessories, ist like wat the hell, i had this asain couple come up to me today.

first of all, they had money,the husband had just bout a 8801, invoice price...i remeber selling it to him, thats like 700 right there,so here we go

Cus: i wanna add 2 lines, i was razrs....

Me: no prob, since ive sold to you before, ill give you a deal, and a razr at $100 each, with 80 mail-in rebate, and free headsets to go with each

Cus: OH? i want them for free

Me: Huh? you know sir i cant do them both for free, you know what,...
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Seriously! Is the concept of coverage THAT hard to understand?

We're required to check before we sell the phone, that's our biggest pitch, that we are fussy to make sure they coverage is good for you... since we haven't got the worlds best coverage, we try to make up for it by being the most precise about where we have it.

Not a day goes by that somebody doesn't get confused "Well isn't it nation wide." Yes, it's a national plan, that doesn't mean we have towers EVERYWHERE!

And a lot of them don't seem to get that it doesn't matter if there isn't coverage in Heron Montana if you're planning on calling TO Heron, or planning to receive calls FROM Heron, only if you're going to BE IN Heron.

Is it really that difficult a concept?

i was just reading those BOB stories a little bit ago and was wondering... can sombody start that up again? that by far was the funniest thing i have ever read on this site.

This may be more appropriate for shop-talk, but it'll get more attention here I think. This forum topic is for anyone who wants to rip on a fellow phone-scooper. I'm seeing a bit more of this than usual. I find it quite funny the way some people converse like this is there auntie's tea party and we can gossip about our neighbors/co-workers, etc. I find most of these scenarios quite funny. I laugh even harder when people get mad at each other. People make fun of myspace, but this site can be all too similar in some regards.

One request. I want the first person's reply to make fun of ME!!

So a kid walks in says his razr has some problems with freezing. So i refer him to the exchange program we offer. Before he leaves I take the back off the phone and show him that he has gotten the phone wet. As I did this I noticed the strongest urine smell coming from the phone. I think he pissed it to death. Gross!

People drive thru the parking lot, park in a parking space and then back out an leave after they look at the store for a couple of minutes???!!!!

We are in a new bulding with no other tenents, we have a grand opening banner in the front window, and this morning I bought balloons to put out front, hoping that people would stop doing that.

Obviously its not working......

and it's not a flea market. You can't just browse my f*&^in kiosk, try to dismiss me or shoo me away when I ask you some qualifying questions, or haggle over prices. Welcome to my mall. Location: First World Country. Occupation: SALESMAN. I SELL PHONES. I DO NOT WAIT FOR YOU TO TELL ME WHAT YOU'D LIKE TO BUY, AND THEN LET YOU DICTATE THE PRICE.

*ahem* Well, I feel better.

i just had a customer come in he wanted to pay his bill I looked it up and saw that he had gone waaaay over his minutes so I informed him that his bill was 400^ his mouth hits the floor and I almost break out laughing after I collect myself I informed him that te overage is the reason his bill is so hi He respondes to that by saying that that sounds a bit fishy and tried to tell me that t-mobile is making up calls to his brother because there is no way that it could have been him 😎

(CDMA based question)

what does it mean when the esn in an LG phone is all zeros?