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  1. #1
    Join Date
    Mar 2000
    Location
    Melbourne, Victoria
    Posts
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    Post cust is always right

    I'm sorry about all the >>>>>> but I just don't have the time to remove them all.

    And so the customer is always right?
    > >
    > > Read on..........
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > >
    > > At 3:37 a.m. on a Sunday, I had just looked at the clock to determine my
    > > annoyance level, when I received a frantic phone call from a new user of
    > > a Macintosh Plus. She got her entire family out of the house and was
    > > calling from her neighbor's.
    > >
    > > She had just received her first system error and interpreted the picture
    > > of the bomb on the screen as a warning that the computer was going to
    > > blow up.
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "I need you to right-click on the Open Desktop."
    > > Customer: "Ok."
    > > Tech Support: "Did you get a pop-up menu?"
    > > Customer: "No."
    > > Tech Support: "Ok. Right click again. Do you see a pop-up menu?"
    > > Customer: "No."
    > > Tech Support: "Ok, sir. Can you tell me what you have done up until this
    > > point?"
    > > Customer: "Sure, you told me to write 'click' and I wrote 'click'."
    > > (At this point I had to put the caller on hold to tell the rest of the
    > > tech support staff what had happened. I couldn't, however, stop from
    > > giggling when I got back to the call.)
    > > Tech Support: "Ok, did you type 'click' with the keyboard?"
    > > Customer: "I have done something dumb, right?"
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > One woman called Dell's toll-free line to ask how to install the
    > > batteries in her laptop. When told that the directions were on the first
    > > page of the manual the woman replied angrily, "I just paid $2,000 for
    > > this damn thing, and I'm not going to read the book."
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > Customer: "I received the software update you sent, but I am still
    > > getting the same error message."
    > > Tech Support: "Did you install the update?"
    > > Customer: "No. Oh, am I supposed to install it to get it to work?"
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > Customer: "I'm having trouble installing Microsoft Word."
    > > Tech Support: "Tell me what you've done."
    > > Customer: "I typed 'A:SETUP'."
    > > Tech Support: "Ma'am, remove the disk and tell me what it says."
    > > Customer: "It says '[PC manufacturer] Restore and Recovery disk'."
    > > Tech Support: "Insert the MS Word setup disk."
    > > Customer: "What?"
    > > Tech Support: "Did you buy MS word?"
    > > Customer "No..."
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "Ok, in the bottom left hand side of the screen, can you
    > > see the 'OK' button displayed?"
    > > Customer: "Wow. How can you see my screen from there?"
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > Customer: "Uhh...I need help unpacking my new PC."
    > > Tech Support: "What exactly is the problem?"
    > > Customer: "I can't open the box."
    > > Tech Support: "Well, I'd remove the tape holding the box closed and go
    > > from there."
    > > Customer: "Uhhhh...ok, thanks...."
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > Customer: "I'm having a problem installing your software. I've got a
    > > fairly old computer, and when I type 'INSTALL', all it says is 'Bad
    > > command or file name'."
    > > Tech Support: "Ok, check the directory of the A: drive-go to A:\ and
    > > type 'dir'."
    > > Customer reads off a list of file names, including 'INSTALL.EXE'.
    > > Tech Support: "All right, the correct file is there. Type 'INSTALL'
    > > again."
    > > Customer: "Ok." (pause) "Still says 'Bad command or file name'."
    > > Tech Support: "Hmmm. The file's there in the correct place - it can't
    > > help but do something. Are you sure you're typing I-N-S-T-A-L-L and
    > > hitting the Enter key?"
    > > Customer: "Yes, let me try it again." (pause) "Nope, still 'Bad command
    > > or file name'."
    > > Tech Support: (now really confused) "Are you sure you're typing
    > > I-N-S-T-A-L-L and hitting the key that says 'Enter'?"
    > > Customer: "Well, yeah. Although my 'N' key is stuck, so I'm using the M'
    > > key...does that matter?
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > At our company we have asset numbers on the front of everything. They
    > > give the location, name, and everything else just by scanning the
    > > computer's asset barcode or using the number beneath the bars.
    > > Customer: "Hello. I can't get on the network."
    > > Tech Support: "Ok. Just read me your asset number so we can open an
    > > outage."
    > > Customer: "What is that?"
    > > Tech Support: "That little barcode on the front of your computer."
    > > Customer: "Ok. Big bar, little bar, big bar, big bar . . ."
    > >
    > > *******************************************************
    > >
    > > And the best for last!!!!
    > >
    > > Customer: "I got this problem. You people sent me this install disk, and
    > > now my A: drive won't work."
    > > Tech Support: "Your A drive won't work?"
    > > Customer: "That's what I said. You sent me a bad disk, it got stuck in
    > > my drive, now it won't work at all."
    > > Tech Support: "Did it not install properly? What kind of error messages
    > > did you get?"
    > > Customer: "I didn't get any error message. The disk got stuck in the
    > > drive and wouldn't come out. So I got these pliers and tried to get it
    > > out. That didn't work either."
    > > Tech Support: "You did what sir?"
    > > Customer: "I got these pliers, and tried to get the disk out, but it
    > > wouldn't budge. I just ended up cracking the plastic stuff a bit."
    > > Tech Support: "I don't understand sir, did you push the eject button?"
    > > Customer: "No, so then I got a stick of butter and melted it and used a
    > > turkey baster and put the butter in the drive, around the disk, and that
    > > got it loose. Then I used the pliers and it came out fine. I can't
    > > believe you would send me a disk that was broke and defective."
    > > Tech Support: "Let me get this clear. You put melted butter in your A:
    > > drive and used pliers to pull the disk out?"
    > >
    > > At this point, I put the call on the speaker phone and motioned at the
    > > other techs to listen in.
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "Just so I am absolutely clear on this, can you repeat
    > > what you just said?"
    > > Customer: "I said I put butter in my A: drive to get your crappy disk
    > > out, then I had to use pliers to pull it out."
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "Did you push that little button that was sticking out
    > > when the disk was in the drive, you know, the thing called the disk
    > > eject button?"
    > >
    > > Silence.
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "Sir?"
    > > Customer: "Yes."
    > > Tech Support: "Sir, did you push the eject button?"
    > > Customer: "No, but you people are going to fix my computer, or I'm going
    > > to sue you for breaking my computer!!"
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "Let me get this straight. You are going to sue our
    > > company because you put the disk in the A: drive, didn't follow the
    > > instructions we sent you, didn't actually seek professional advice,
    > > didn't consult your user's manual on how to use your computer properly,
    > > instead proceeding to pour butter into the drive and physically rip the
    > > disk out?"
    > >
    > > Customer: "Ummmm."
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "Do you really think you stand a chance, since we do
    > > record every call and have it on tape?"
    > >
    > > Customer: (now rather humbled) "But you're supposed to help!"
    > >
    > > Tech Support: "I am sorry sir, but there is nothing we can do for you.
    > > Have a nice day."

  2. #2
    Join Date
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    Location
    Sydney, NSW
    Posts
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    Thumbs up

    aaah is nice to see im not the only one who gets customers like that....
    Brett

    Only Robinson Crusoe could get everything done by Friday!

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