Do not have sex when you call a helpline (that’s not a sex helpline)
Etiquette rules when you call (well, me at least)
I’m ok with angry, irate, cursing people. I probably won’t be terribly nice but I just do what I have to do to fix your services up, and then you can go on your way and so can I, because yeah, it’s like whatever, I know the whole organisation screwed you over, I’ll fix it, yawn. Next. Angry at something but not me. Ok I am used to that.
If you yell at me, I’ll hang up because I don’t want to go deaf. And tag you as abusive so other people will not be nice to you. And yes, I will warn you.
I’m not the national operator. Nor am I a tele-wikipedia or tele-encyclopedia. If you ask me what time it is in Canada now, I will not tell you, I will either a) advise you to check the internet or b)sell you the internet
If you tell me you want to speak to your cousin in Western Australia, guess what? beep beep beep. Call 1234 not me.
If you want to know what the weather is like in another state, guess what? Wrong number. Again. I don’t know what the phone number for weather forecasts is.
If you were kidnapped and held captive and cold and hungry, do not call your phone company’s billing department. Call the police. The emergency number is ‘000′. Seriously, some old lady was calling from like some kind of retirement company saying she was being held against her will and that she was hungry. And cold.
And you know when you call some annoying hotline, like say the bank, and if they put you on hold? You can’t hear us, but we can hear you. OK? So don’t be telling your redneck girlfriend “Lick my willy now, right here”
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