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die dial up DIE...

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Current Music: non stop party cheeeeese

stupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidstupidpeople...

things that people say when you are on the phone to them....

1) could you say that again but in english?
... excuse me i've spent my entire life in british education and i'm probalby speaking better than you, YOU TWAT!

2) email address? sure i have one.. it's "W W W - dot-..."
.... no shit sherlock thats a website... idiots

3) email address? sure we have some somewhere, hold on [disappears to ask someone, just where i can hear it] oh no sorry we dont actually.
.... what i actually heard was..."dont give them the email address" .... just say you dont want to I DONT CARE!!!

4) me:[after about a minute of re-explaining].... so i just need an email address
them: ok dear
me: so do you have an email address
them: no
me:...[hang up]


...

this is just a selection from today..
and there have been funnier ones, more frustrating ones and ones where i've just had to walk away before i chucked the computer screen outside the window.

and yes my technology minded folk there are people out there who still dont know what an email address is and those who dont use computers..

.. oh and finally for my last trick of today before i go and fall asleep in the bath is

May's guide to dealing with cold callers...

ok so that train you to 'objection handle' that means dont take no for no.

so if you REALLY arent interested here is what you do...

1) there is NO need to put the phone down on most of these people nor is it necessary to be horrendously rude. they are doing a job. they probably need the money. lets not be harsh (let's face it i'm currently one of them)

2)once you explain you REALLY arent a sale they will leave you alone as its not in there interested to waste time on you. so...
- really say NO... i'm happy with what i've got..
- explain.. look i'm not going to buy anything i'm sure its a wondeful offer but i'm really not interested
- and just say - your really wasting you time on me.. trust me try the next call

3) dont lie.. if you dont have something or dont want to give something out just say it. its much more annoying if you obviously have something etc but are just to embarassed to not do so. just SAY IT!

4) oh and the other thing.. try and stop people before they get into the full swing of the pitch.. it doesnt waste your time and it doesnt waste theirs and explain that as you cut them off.. there isnothing more annoying than doing the FULL pitch and then getting a No...[hang up]... i'd rather a "hey i'm calling from lexus nexus..." "sorry not interested punk" [hang up]

well maybe not..

just remember some of those call centre phone-ys are still human beings. you only lose your soul once you hit middle management.

so my friends
onwards and upwards

Current Location: middle madness and exhaustion
Current Mood: bitchy
Current Music: interpol

and by that i'm mean Posting..

gosh i must be bored or at least in need of some good quality internet time..

broadband countdown... surely its days now?!?!!?

its hot.. and thats FAR too hot for london.. can someone please turn the heating off and put the air conditioning on?? i take it all back winter PLEASE COME BACK!

Current Mood: hot

so i had a pretty shitty day at work. I'm currently working in call centre hell but no worries. its to buisness's, and NOT to people's homes so i feel kind of allowed to do that. What i am doing however is selling a magazine about food manufacturing to... guess what FOOD manufacturing companies. but wait till you get the creme de la creme. They used to recieve it free. Now they don't, and have to pay. and yes, i'm the fool who is selling them

so yeah pretty shitty day. We've had our bonus pulled because we were making 'too many sales' TOO MANY. jesus some people are just never happy. I got some real arseholes on the phone. Even after we had been resonable. now i understand that what i do will require me getting some shit. but honestly there is only so far you can take shit from people.

so i decided today that the best way to make up for it was to go for a window-book-shopping trip. I can't spend money. i'm already far too much in debt and if i dont want to stay in this job for the rest of the summer the only way out of this crazy nadir is to make sure that i am a scrooge for the next few weeks. Then i can give up this job on either the 11 or 18 August. Trust me i'm counting down the days.

But then again window-book-shopping is fun. I get to spend lots of time in a bookshop, which calms my nerves right down, and instead of wanting to destroy the world, the rage is once again contained. Its good as well, as i can plan my next couple of buys and all those all important 'what should i read next' lists are reordered to a more up to date perspective.

Yes i'm weird but you knew that.

one thing did occur though was that as i was standing in the book shop they were advertising for the pannini's in the coffee shop!?!?! which lets face it is NOT what you want to see when you are browsing the shelves stumbling upon gems like a great cover of an edgar alan poe classic or the excellent title of 'wife in the fast lane' (i mean hi-larious or WHAT) you dont expect to see an advert for the coffee shop. This was when i retreated back to the sci-fi and fantasy section where lets face it i belong and where they never bother to put such adverts. cos lets face it. even if fantasy is one of the biggest selling book genres... they never think to target it for fancy new foods in the coffee shop. they probably think we are all addicted to the crappy snack foods as we watch star trek.

i do believe i may have ranted enough for one day.. i think i'll leave my thoughts on what exactly they put in the sci-fi and fantasy section and why its STUPID for another time.

.... but wait shit. all those whiny gits that i hate for bitching on things like this, i've just turned into one of them. oh well. cant be helped, Its not my fault, the inter-web made me do it!

Current Mood: irritated
Current Music: Interpol

So its been a fun two weeks of uni and i think everyone will be proud to hear that i managed to survive the whole time without missing a lecture. i didnt even fall asleep in any of them but my goodness, it was tempting.

i cant promise i was sober through all of them as well... but then again when am i ever sober?

no really don't answer that question.

So anyway. i'm tired and i've got a mountain of work to be doing. i've finally hit a point however where i'm actually getting shit done so thankful for small mercies at least. one more week of revision and then it will all be over. well the revision will be at least

then there are the exams..

good luck if you are in the same boat.

Current Location: pits of insanity and revision
Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Gnarls Barkley, The Kooks and Interpol

From the strict instuctions from people i was ordered to update my journal..

not again that the people reading this arent the ones telling me what to do. and not that these people already know what i've been doing so, honestly!

well i've been back at uni for 3 days. and already i've had enough. seriously its hard work getting up for 9 am lectures, staying away through the day with only an hours lunch break. and then finally coming home at about 530. jesus. how do real people do it?

we are learning cancer biology right now which is very exciting. and i mean that in a non sarcastic way believe it or not. quite intense but for once it actually feels kinda relavant so i dont feel like i'm drowninbg in inane facts.

In medicine that is a first, Trust me.

I'm also trying very hard to get some of my revision started. Nothing has happened yet but i strive to suceed.

one day.

oh and one other quick note. People should not be allowed to panic. Especially medics. It gives me a headache and i spend at least half an hour thinking that i might actually have to do some work to get through this year. Those kind of thoughts are counter-productive to my current state of denial and are probably not good for those people panicking.

otherwise wish me luck. as i'm off to do some more 'work'.

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Current Mood: groggy
Current Music: Female of the Species - Space

yeah again..

but why have an account if you dont use it? why indeed?

i guess the writing about what i've done might help me remember it and tis not like its going to harm anyone (much).

so after an eventful easter of.. well ...nothing except a holiday somewhere hot and exotic, we come to my favourite time of year.

my birthday.. yes folks its my birthday today (just) and well i'm finally out of my teenage years. I'm old. *sob for the childhood wasted*

or not really. kinda anticlimatic day what with the real *fun* happening on the wednesday before when i had the drinks with friends... and today was kinda just chilled with family

oh well i guess i'll look back on this time as the golden age of my life but until then..

adios

Since Becks, signed me up to this wonderful thing, i feel i should make a proper first post. uhm.. but i'm really at a loss as to what to say considering i fear she is the only one who knows i'm here and i havent really explored the wonders of this website so really am at a loss.

and seriously.. how does anyone change ANYTHING on this thing?

well thank you again, i fear i may have lost what precious other time i had for a life to this and i can probably kiss my degree goodbye. :D

oh well.. i didnt want it anyway!

Current Mood: pensive

Hello!

My name is MAY. And Becks has kindly updated for me.

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