Mal: I call you back? Wash: No, Mal. You didn't. Zoe: I take full responsibility, cap.

'Out Of Gas'


Natter 40: The Nice One  

Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.


tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 11:06:44 am PST #6432 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Now for some reason I'm thinking that the odds of one enjoying golden showers are probably lower if one is colorblind.


JZ - Nov 22, 2005 11:07:53 am PST #6433 of 10006
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.

ita, that's so unfair and sneaky of you, just posting it like that. We know not to click on your links, but that wasn't even a link! It's just--Dear God, it's just out there, like... There are no words. Now I have to go fumigate my entire head.


§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 11:14:36 am PST #6434 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

I just got threatened by a...well, I'm not sure who she was. She called me and asked if I could help her with a problem. I explained that if it had to do with our business (she was calling from outside the company) that I couldn't help her, because I was in the IT department.

She complained that everyone else was hanging up on her, and she needed the name and number of our president. I told her I didn't have that information (it seemed less rude than telling her to fuck off and straighten out her expectations -- we're a 40,000 person company -- like she can get through to our president). She then complained and asked for our HR department's number. Which I don't have. I mean, I don't know any departmental phone numbers. I only call people. My assigned HR person, in this situation.

Woman starts ranting about reporting us to the BBB, and that she just couldn't believe I couldn't help her. I asked her where she got my number, and she said she was dialing at random. I told her to try the operator instead, and she asked for my name so she could report me too. So we can add to the number of employees here who hung up on her.

Long story short -- sorry about the pee thing, I have been punished.


shrift - Nov 22, 2005 11:15:54 am PST #6435 of 10006
"You can't put a price on the joy of not giving a shit." -Zenkitty

Interesting where different people's boundaries lie, huh?

Pretty damn good distraction from the question of his sexual orientation, though, huh?

VERY SNEAKY, MR. MARTIN.


tommyrot - Nov 22, 2005 11:16:59 am PST #6436 of 10006
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.

Sales people will often pull all sorts of tricks in order to get a line (or a #) to a president, vice-president, etc. I bet that's what it was. Or else she wanted to make a complaint and was not going about it very intelligently.


§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 11:19:39 am PST #6437 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

If she'd had any idea of the company at all, she'd understand that she's not getting through to the president, like EVER. And he doesn't make purchasing decisions. Even the heads of the 14 divisions don't make purchasing decisions.

Nutjob!


Cashmere - Nov 22, 2005 11:21:57 am PST #6438 of 10006
Now tagless for your comfort.

I almost never drink regular soy milk straight

As Lewis Black asks, why is it soy milk? Why not soy juice?


§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 11:22:43 am PST #6439 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

Why not soy juice?

You can't juice a bean. Don't be crazy, woman.


Calli - Nov 22, 2005 11:23:04 am PST #6440 of 10006
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs

Eh, maybe she just wants to be able to tell her superiors, "Look, I called 35 people at that company and I just couldn't get through to the right guy," thus covering her ass for being unable to sell y'all panda-shaped ceramic sliderule holders. Granted, being obnoxious while doing it was probably not her best approach.


§ ita § - Nov 22, 2005 11:23:47 am PST #6441 of 10006
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.

covering her ass for being unable to sell y'all panda-shaped ceramic sliderule holders.

If she'd just said that, I totally know who'd buy those by the gross.

Asking for my name? Certainly not helping any cause.