Work Stories
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Topic: Work Stories
Posted By: mummy_becks
Subject: Work Stories
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 8:40pm
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Ok so following on from Gen's thread about work what are some of the stories you have from your work (no names needed). We had crazy things asked for when I worked at 018.
Those are all I can think of at the moment. ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:07pm
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A small selection of the following I have working for an airline:
- "Do you fly over the ocean?" 
- "How much to go to Wellington?....Sweet so is that on a airplane or train?" 
- "So you're telling me I leave here at 9.30am and arrive in Brisbane at 10.30am - Wow that is a quick flight!" 
- "yeah I think I'm flying sometime today to Australia, can't remember what time...what do you mean my flight was yesterday?????"
- "you guys have to change this flight free of charge....it's your fault my son slept in and missed his shuttle to the airport!"
- "what do you mean the flight is sold out? I HAVE to travel today...besides I'm a Gold Elite...what do you mean the flight is still full???" 
- "what do you mean Air NZ can't access my United Airlines frequent flyer account??" 
- I have a 4 hour stopover in Auckland when I get in from LA....can you arrange for me to get a train down to Wellington to kill some time?....the train would take how long???? 12 hours??? Wow New Zealands actually quite big huh?" 
And still my personal favourite - "Can I book a flight from LA to Sydney and then get a rental car to Auckland?" ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
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Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:17pm
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lol! That last one is a crack up Paws! ------------- |
Posted By: Brenna
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:18pm
lol at the last one!!! -------------  My beautiful 2 girls...nearly 4 and 13 months
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Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:23pm
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Believe me...it's been asked more often that you would think! I know I'm not the only one who got that sort of question!!! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: Maya
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:37pm
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I used to answer the phones for Housing NZ's after hours service and the after hours service for CYFS so believe me, I have heard a few good ones! Like the guy who rang Housing NZ after hours to tell us that his house was on fire. BEFORE he rang the fire department. The mind boggles! ------------- Maya Grace (28/02/03)
 (02/01/06)
The Gremlins:Sienna Marie & Mercedes Kailah (14/10/06)
Lil miss:Chiara Louise Chloe (09/07/08)
Her ladyship:Rosalia Sophie Anais (18/06/12)
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 9:58pm
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I remembered some more.
------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:04pm
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ROFLMAO Gen, I wouldnt be able to help myself lol I would burst out laughing ------------- http://lilypie.com"> 
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: Shezamumof3
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:08pm
LMAO!!!! ------------- |
Posted By: Kels
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:10pm
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Me: has your MW discussed contraception with you? Me: What ethic group do you identify with? BTW english was the first and only language these mums spoke, so no problems with language barriers for excuses
------------- http://lilypie.com">
Busy mum to Miss 15yrs, Miss 10yrs and Master 4yrs |
Posted By: MissCandice
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:10pm
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I work in a callcentre for telstraclear.
Some of my calls were: Im just ringing to give you my final reading for my power. Duh we are a phone company. Had a guy phone going off his nut at me because GST didnt work in his favour and he wanted to be reimbursed for the 1c we apparently overcharged. People phone up demanding we reconnect their phone because its our fault they havent paid their bill in 6 months. Cant remember anymore at the moment. Oh we have a guy that phones from the UK every week asking about neighbours. And another guy who says thank you at the end of EVERYTHING he says, like hi im.... thankyou, can you tell me what mybalance is thank you, lovely day today thankyou, hows your day thankyou..etc. ------------- ~ Mummy to a beautiful girl ~ |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:11pm
Paint Stripper?? HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!! Nice one!!!
Ahhhh yeah Kels...there have been a few close calls...thanks goodness for the hold button! ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: mum2paris
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:17pm
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lol have had someone ask if babies can cry in chinese
have had the constant relatives of boy-girl twins asking "are they identical?" to be told no, they are boy girl etc to get the reply "yeah..but are they identical?" 
can't think of too many more.. am sure there are plenty ------------- Janine and her 2 cool chicks, Paris & Ayja 
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Posted By: Bombshell
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:21pm
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LOL BEcks I went to school with Dr Tongues daughter!!! LOL!!!!
I cringed when I got the calls from prisoners on inside - but then think well heck they need to talk too....did look up the info on one prisoner in a book that lists all pedophiles in NZ (you can buy it in whitcoulls before anyone asks)....refused said prisoners calls after that!!!
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Posted By: mummy_becks
Date Posted: 04 February 2008 at 10:26pm
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Yep when you worked the GY shift you could get away with a few things. Classic babies crying in chinese. Now I don't know if this is true but Dr Tongue is a gyne?? ------------- I was a puree feeder, forward facing, cot sleeping, pram pushing kind of Mum... and my kids survived! |
Posted By: Paws
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 7:16am
Oh yeah we have a canadian caller who I believe wants to do kinky things,never had that caller myself...we used to have a UK caller too but he went away.
Lets see if today brings any good stories huh?? ------------- http://lilypie.com">
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Posted By: susieq
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 8:01am
| Yes Dr Tongue is a gyne |
Posted By: almostthere
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 8:34am
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Me: Can i have your account number please?
Them: oh, is that my account number? Cust: I have a high bill, you are charging me too much for waste*****. Me: sir, its advisable you do a test. Cust: im not doing anything until you bring down the cost of my bill. Me: but if you do a test, we can find out why your bill is high. Cust: BEEP no im not paying my bill!! Hangup Cust: my name is John Smith. Me: whats the name on the account. Cust: John Smith Me: No its not John smith Cust: oh, i am the tenant. (we dont put tenants names on accounts...) Cust: Can i order a reading for *** Broadway ( an apartment block) Me: this ppty is covered by a body corporate therefore they dont have their own meters. Cust: are you sure? can you just check the apartment. OMG believe me, i get these everyday without fail. Its not so bad, andIM sure there will be more today  ------------- http://www.fertilityfriend.com/home/2128f6"> 
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Posted By: MummyFreckle
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 9:55am
Hahah - I used to work with Dr Tongue at NWH.....he was a really nice old boy!!! But I always thought it was especially funny that a gynaecologist was called Dr Tongue!
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mummy_becks wrote:Posted By: baalamb
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 11:00am
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I used to work in a call centre that was like an after hours desk for a number of different companies. On one particular line, this old lady used to ALWAYS ring and ask what the date is. We'd tell her, and she'd say 'are you absolutely sure? You wouldn't lie to me, would you' then she'd ring up at least 3 times more in one night. She'd ring every day and ask the same thing! Every time, she was told that this line is not for telling people what the date is.
One from my current job: Guy: uh... can I transfer some money to my account? Me: um, sure. Is it between two of your own accounts? Guy: (pause) uh... yeah. Me: ok. What's the account you want it to come out of? Guy: (pause) uh... um... *gives me our phone number!!!) Me: you just gave me our phone number. It's not an account. Guy: uh... ok try this one *gives me another one of our company's phone numbers!* Me: um, that's another one of our phone numbers. Guy: yeah, but it's an account number as well. Me: No it's not sorry. Guy: yes it *expletive* is!!! Me: No, sorry, it's not. Guy: *more expletives* This goes on for about 5 mins and he gets increasingly aggressive. We argue, I finally get an account number out of him, which has no money in it to be able to transfer! And he ends up hanging up. Then he rings back! And gets me again: Me: can I have your account number? Guy gives it to me. Me: you were talking to me before. What is it that you're wanting to do? Guy: *sigh* I wanna transfer some money. Me: ok, how do you want to do it? Via credit card? Bank deposit? Between accounts? Guy: uh.... yeah...
This goes on, he gives me the phone numbers again, claiming they're accounts. I tell him that you need to actually HAVE money to be able to transfer it. Call ends with guy saying: oh lets just *expletive* forget about it, shall we?! *hangs up* HAHAHA! SO random! I still, to this day, have no idea what he wanted, or what he was on! I think he just wanted me to pull some money out of thin air and put it in his account. |
Posted By: MonicaMouse
Date Posted: 05 February 2008 at 11:45am
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I had a guy who I needed to help fill out forms for a credit card application. Not only was he dressed (badly) as a female, but had no ID reequired, the reason for no passport - the judge took it off me because I tried to run away when I was a little girl, and he claimed he was living at women's refuge at the time. The went thru the whole form with a lot of patience and use of non-gender-specific terms. ------------- 
Blair 15/10/2007 Daniel 30/07/2009 |