View Full Version : 12:22pm - not the hatred thread


The Jake
01-29-2003, 08:32 PM
12:22pm

We're taken heavy hits today on the phones

100 Total Service Factor on Level 1 Support.

Level 2 OTOH...49% 18/112
Meaning we've dropped 18 of the 112 calls we've taken.

We're getting absolutely hammered on level 2 this morning. Only now that our lemming customers are on lunch is there a reprieve. This will end after 1pm.

Oh what do you know? Another level 2 call.

Every ****en call I've taken today is not a standard support call. Gone are the days of "my coffee cup holder is broken". This is now replaced by phone telepathy, where the client calls up with a problem and you must use your psychic powers to determine the problem. I mean, can't we use Zener cards and at least make this a bit more fun??

I get the phone job of answering BOTH queues.

Now I've got a telehousing access request. These aren't too common although this represents the most "normal" call I've had all day.

What I would like is a menu system that Gates himself couldn't navigate, asking customers to specifically define the problem. If their problem does not fit within the confines of the problem they entered on the phones, they get transferred back into the queue, to answer the menu again and take another stab at it.

This would reduce our wait times to **** all, decrease talk time and ensure that support could address all problems correctly, in a timely, efficient and cost effective manner.

- The Jake

The Jake
01-29-2003, 08:42 PM
Alas, I spoke to soon. Even this call is nonstandard. Trust sales reps to be making technical arrangements for something they have no clue of.

- The Jake

ArjukanpoKarate
01-29-2003, 08:57 PM
Stop having so much fun...

The Jake
01-29-2003, 09:01 PM
Ooooh I'm trying....

I have mastered the art of dealing with technical nuffiness

answer each of their questions and only their questions
do not provide additional detail as it will confuse their lemming-like intellect

instead they will ask more questions answer only those questions

they will either get confused and get someone more technical to call back or they will start learning to answer the right questions.

- The Jake

The Jake
01-29-2003, 09:55 PM
1:53pm

I've just begun to recognise the scope of the complete ineptitude of certain staffs in parallel departments.

I've emailed my supervisors and the department manager in an effort to correct this blaring display of gross incompetence.

****ing lazy people. Make my job easier and I make yours easier.... very ****ing simple.

- The Jake

The Jake
01-29-2003, 10:02 PM
2pm -

Last call.

Client of a client called us complaining their website is down and when will it be back up. (so it's not our client that is calling us, but one of theirs you see).

They don't even pay us for webhosting! They have telehoused gear with their own ****en box running their own goddamn website.

Advised client to get the company to call us in regards to their problem.

If only I could reach out and touch these people... with a crowbar....

- The Jake