CSR #1 to CSR #2: You know, you should really try getting to work on time. You don't want them to fire you.
CSR #2: They can't fire me! I put my notice in the day I started!
Greenville, South Carolina
CSR #1 to CSR #2: You know, you should really try getting to work on time. You don't want them to fire you.
CSR #2: They can't fire me! I put my notice in the day I started!
Greenville, South Carolina
Female CSR #1: Did you get a brownie?
Slightly-larger female CSR: No, I can’t leave my desk and work to get a brownie. That would be brushing off my duties.
Female CSR #1: Well, I’m not a fat person. I wouldn’t know.
473 Ridge Road
Dayton, New Jersey
Overheard by: office peon
CSR on phone: No ma’am, I cannot get the part to you today. If I could beam myself to your house and deliver the part myself, I would. But since I can’t, you will have to wait for overnight shipping.
553 Benson Road
Benton Harbor, Michigan
Customer service rep: I don’t know what that is, but let me explain it to you.
Wallingford, Connecticut
Overheard by: Cubicle Co-Worker
CSR: So if someone calls and asks to be transferred to Darryl, I transfer the call to Darryl, right?
51 Madison Avenue
New York, NY
CSR: No, Courtney is with a customer right now. Can I take a message?…Oh, Courtney just hollered and she’s off the customer now.
106 West Grand River Avenue
Howell, Michigan
CSR: Hey, your phone’s open!
Courier: [looks at his crotch]
1813 East 9th Street
Hopkinsville, Kentucky
Overheard by: will1966
CSR #1: Everyone says that Jesus was on the bookshelf the whole time. But what if he wasn't on the bookshelf…
CSR #2: People will put Jesus wherever they want to put him.
CSR #1: Oh my god, that's so deep!
Tulsa, Oklahoma
Customer: I'm looking for the bible.
Shop assistant, typing into computer: Who's it by?
Bookshop
England
Metrosexual CSR: I don’t know — I just feel like most normal straight men shouldn’t know all the lyrics to Rent.
915 Broadway
New York, New York