Customer Service

CSR: Seriously, when you think you’ve gotten the weirdest call you could get…someone calls about a conch shell.

11150 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, California

Overheard by: Lindroid

CSR on phone with client: Yes sir, just click on the bl-b!
CSR: I’m terribly sorry, sir, my manager just hit me in the face with a beachball.

40 King Street
Toronto, Ontario
Canadia

CSR to manager: Sometimes there is a fine line between making people happy and getting them to shut up.

1300 Arlington
Itasca, Illinois

CSR: I feel bad though that I’m leaving — I really like it here.
Manager: Oh, don’t feel bad. We got our money’s worth out of you.
Supervisor: Uh.
Manager: Um, I know, that sounds bad, huh. What I mean is that we, as a company, would much rather hire smart people who leave after two years than stupid people who stay here for, like, forty.
CSR: Thanks?

473 Ridge Road
Dayton, New Jersey

Overheard by: office peon

Marketing manager: Maybe you should have one pink and one blue for your kids.
CSR: Oooh, yeah!
Manager: Well, wait, what do pink and blue make? Purple? No.
CSR: No?
Manager: No, black and blue make purple. Or was it black and red?

421 Northwest Riverside Drive
Evansville, Indiana

CSR on phone: Okay, I’m sending a trouble ticket up for investigation on that for you. Here’s the ticket number in case you want to call and yell at us.

4800 Concentric Boulevard
Saginaw, Michigan

Help Desk #1: If I’m going down it ain’t gonna be for rocks. It’ll be a bank or something.
Help Desk #2: Or manure.

1900 East 9th Street
Cleveland, Ohio

CSR: Did you look at the fax machine?
Tech: Yes, it’s gorgeous!

203 Floral Vale Boulevard
Yardley, Pennsylvania

Nursing Aide: What do I do?
CSR: Just fill out the brown application.
Nursing Aide: Okay, I filled out my name, but where do I put my address?
CSR: No ma’am, the brown application. That is a calendar.

99 Hudson Street
New York, NY

Overheard by: praying I don’t need medical attention

CSR: That guy was such a moron! And he kept trying to tell me he had a
photographic memory. I thought to myself, “Yeah, well you must be out of film.”

7350 Tilghman Street
Allentown, Pennsylvania

Overheard by: jara