I was reading an email from my cousin about his rant on his new job. He's working in a call center and he only got started last week, and his email was about a silly query he got yesterday. I was really laughing at this and thought of sharing it with you guys.
Someone called to him complaining of a broken "cup holder" on his computer. My cousin replied "I'm sorry sir, but the computer doesn't come with a cup holder". The customer then said "Yes it does, in fact I'm using it now, right in front of me, above the place where you insert the diskette, and it has a hole in the middle". My cousin then realized what the customer was talking about and said "No sir, that's the CD-ROM!" _________________
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 5:30 am Post subject:
Saito_Hajime wrote:
Someone called to him complaining of a broken "cup holder" on his computer. My cousin replied "I'm sorry sir, but the computer doesn't come with a cup holder". The customer then said "Yes it does, in fact I'm using it now, right in front of me, above the place where you insert the diskette, and it has a hole in the middle". My cousin then realized what the customer was talking about and said "No sir, that's the CD-ROM!"
Are you for real?!? Um.....wow. No words for that. Just lots of laughter. _________________
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:07 am Post subject:
Saito_Hajime wrote:
I was reading an email from my cousin about his rant on his new job. He's working in a call center and he only got started last week, and his email was about a silly query he got yesterday. I was really laughing at this and thought of sharing it with you guys.
Someone called to him complaining of a broken "cup holder" on his computer. My cousin replied "I'm sorry sir, but the computer doesn't come with a cup holder". The customer then said "Yes it does, in fact I'm using it now, right in front of me, above the place where you insert the diskette, and it has a hole in the middle". My cousin then realized what the customer was talking about and said "No sir, that's the CD-ROM!"
Reminds me of a story my cousin's husband, who is a mechanic, told me once.
An old lady brought a car in for repair, saying it was running rough. So my cousin's husband gave it a service, gave it a test run and all was ok.
A few days later, the woman brought the car back, saying it was still playing up. The mechanic said "Let's take it for a drive"
So the lady gets in, starts the car, pulls out the choke (It was a while ago LOL) and hangs her handbag on it.......
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Posted: Wed Oct 25, 2006 6:16 am Post subject:
I heard an even better one....
Another mechanic told me this:
He did a repair on the brakes of this guy's car. The guy brought it back later, saying the brakes were squeaking. The mechanic told him not to worry, it would stop once he new pads had worn in.
A few days later, he saw the same car smashed up at the next-door panel shop. He asked them what happened, and the panel shop guy says "Apparently his brakes were sqeaking, so he put grease on the brake pads...."
Are you for real?!? Um.....wow. No words for that. Just lots of laughter.
Yeah, I know that it was a rant, but that was a funny one that it could pass as a joke!
gaijin mark wrote:
Trust me, MM, there are a LOT of incredibly stupid people out there. Look at the millions that voted for Bush!
It seems that you haven't been receiving silly queries lately.....the customers that you are getting nowadays have this thing called common sense, eh?
Anime Dad wrote:
I heard an even better one....
Another mechanic told me this:
He did a repair on the brakes of this guy's car. The guy brought it back later, saying the brakes were squeaking. The mechanic told him not to worry, it would stop once he new pads had worn in.
A few days later, he saw the same car smashed up at the next-door panel shop. He asked them what happened, and the panel shop guy says "Apparently his brakes were sqeaking, so he put grease on the brake pads...."
Talk about silly thing that people can do. Boy, that made my day. _________________
'Paris Syndrome' leaves tourists in shock
Japanese visitors found to suffer from psychiatric phenomenon
3:47 p.m. PT Oct 23, 2006
PARIS - Around a dozen Japanese tourists a year need psychological treatment after visiting Paris as the reality of unfriendly locals and scruffy streets clashes with their expectations, a newspaper reported on Sunday.
"A third of patients get better immediately, a third suffer relapses and the rest have psychoses," Yousef Mahmoudia, a psychologist at the Hotel-Dieu hospital, next to Notre Dame cathedral, told the newspaper Journal du Dimanche.
Already this year, Japan's embassy in Paris has had to repatriate at least four visitors -- including two women who believed their hotel room was being bugged and there was a plot against them.
Previous cases include a man convinced he was the French "Sun King", Louis XIV, and a woman who believed she was being attacked with microwaves, the paper cited Japanese embassy official Yoshikatsu Aoyagi as saying.
"Fragile travelers can lose their bearings. When the idea they have of the country meets the reality of what they discover it can provoke a crisis," psychologist Herve Benhamou told the paper.
The phenomenon, which the newspaper dubbed "Paris Syndrome", was first detailed in the psychiatric journal Nervure in 2004.
Bernard Delage of Jeunes Japon, an association that helps Japanese families settle in France, said:
"In Japanese shops, the customer is king, whereas here assistants hardly look at them ... People using public transport all look stern, and handbag snatchers increase the ill feeling."
A Japanese woman, Aimi, told the paper:
"For us, Paris is a dream city. All the French are beautiful and elegant ... And then, when they arrive, the Japanese find the French character is the complete opposite of their own." _________________
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:44 am Post subject:
bmwracer wrote:
Click on the little orange folder:
I wonder if there's a way for this link to be updated to know I already visited it. It doesn't currently.
If I read "unread posts" for thread A, the orange icon changes to white to show I looked at that link.
Then someone posts a new reply to thread A.
When I click on the orange folder, it starts at the same spot as if I just logged in, and not the newest post.
I've started to look at the "latest post" instead...except it breaks on "those" threads. (What are you doing now?, etc).
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 2:27 am Post subject:
this is the kind of crap i read that irks me to no end:
Top U.S. general says Rumsfeld is inspired by God
Friday, October 20, 2006 at 07:54 EDT
MIAMI — The top U.S. general on Thursday defended the leadership of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, saying it is inspired by God.
"He leads in a way that the good Lord tells him is best for our country," said Marine General Peter Pace, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Rumsfeld is "a man whose patriotism focus, energy, drive, is exceeded by no one else I know ... quite simply, he works harder than anybody else in our building," Pace said at a ceremony at the Southern Command (Southcom) in Miami.
Rumsfeld has faced a storm of criticism and calls for his resignation, largely over his handling of the Iraq war.
But he got a strong show of support from the military establishment at Thursday's ceremony, where Navy Admiral James Stavridis took over Southcom's command from General Bantz Craddock.
"He comes to work everyday with a single-minded focus to make this country safe," said Stavridis who was a senior aide to Rumsfeld before taking on the Southcom job.
"We're lucky as a nation that he continues to serve with such passion and such integrity and such determination and such brilliance," said Stavridis, 51.
As head of Southcom, Stavridis will be responsible for military cooperation with Latin American countries, and will be in charge of the Guantanamo military base in Cuba where more than 400 "war on terror" detainees are being held.
Craddock, who was named supreme commander of allied forces in Europe, hailed the role Southcom has played.
"Today I believe that we can say we were successful in our efforts and contributed to ensuring our nation's security through support on the global war on terror, and encouraged regional cooperation to enhance the security and stability in the region," he said.
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