The practice of playing music for callers on hold began with a faulty phone line connection. A loose wire touching the steel frame of an office building caused it to act as a giant radio receiver, allowing callers to hear music from local radio stations while they waited on hold.
If You Work in Customer Service, You’ll Feel These Memes in Your Soul
You may think you’ve had some bad experiences in the service industry, but you haven’t seen anything until you’ve worked that customer service desk in a retail setting. Wow. People will turn into god damned animals if they think they should be getting their money back. And god forbid if they think they should be getting something for free for their trouble.
Yes, I did work retail and, yes, I did work the customer service desk… so these 22 customer serve memes are so damn relatable.
Let’s go!
22. Isn’t this how it use to work?
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21. Oh, it’s gonna be like that?!
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20. Fake it till you make it… to another job.
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19. Oh really?
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18. See! SEE!!!!
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17. Well, maybe you need to customer somewhere else then!
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16. I can already tell this is going to end badly…
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15. Wait, how did I get this banana….?
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14. Just so you know…
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13. Sorry, not sorry, but really sorry, and sorry.
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12. #TruthBomb
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11. Hahaha, oh you retail workers and your funnies…
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10. I don’t want to be here any longer…
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9. Yesssssssssss????
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8. All jobs. Ever.
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7. Agreed. You gave it to me. I’m taking it. Bye.
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6. Oh, some of us understand…
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5. Put Kim behind a customer service desk and watch her CRUMBLE…
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4. Why do you keep asking me this?!
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3. I’m chilling until the last possible second.
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2. All the feels…
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1. Is this a double? This seems like a double…
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Okay, I’m going to go to bed. Gotta get some sleep so I can work in the morning…
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Apparently, Twitter Users Have Strong Feelings about Why 1-Ply Toilet Paper Should Be Banned
1-ply toilet paper. Why? Yeah, it’s cheaper, but is it effective? When will the FDA and Consumer Reports step in and lay down the law to say it’s unsafe and impractical?!
Lol.
These Twitter users have something to say about 1-ply, and it’s safe to say we can all relate.
1. Passive aggressive wife knows no limits
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2. When 1-Ply loses friends
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3. Someone finally said it!
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4. The Chronicles of 1-Ply
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5. This is a relationship deal breaker
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6. That’s just wrong and oddly hilarious
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7. Truth
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8. “You have been sentenced to life with 1-ply”
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9. We are all wondering the same thing
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10. Literally her “inner self”
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11. Please illegalize the use of 1-ply
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And with these real complaints, I say all 1-ply be banned.
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So… Drive-Thru Workers Can Apparently Hear EVERYTHING You Say – Even When the Speaker Isn’t On
Uh-oh…
If you tend to visit your local drive-thru pretty regularly, you might not love this. You see, it seems that drive-thru employees can hear every single thing you say in your car, even when you’re just waiting for the speaker to turn on.
One Reddit user and drive-thru worker posted the tidbit, just to let everyone know that, yup, they can hear you. Their headsets pick up pretty much everything.
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“As soon as you drive up to the speaker, we get a beep over our headsets and the transmission begins,” Redditor wreckinitralph wrote. “If we don’t answer you right away – we can hear everything. If we apologize and say we’ll be with you in a minute – you’re not on hold, we can hear everything. If you’ve ordered but the drive-thru line won’t let you pull ahead yet – we can hear every single thing you’re saying. I wish I could forget some of the stuff I’ve heard.”
Whoooaaaaa. So, basically don’t talk crap about the drive-thru until after you’ve safely pulled away with your food. And if you need to say something embarrassing or top-secret, maybe roll your windows up and whisper? Your car is not as private as you think!
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Another Reddit user had a similar and equally horrifying revelation in the comments of the post.
“This also applies when you’re on any type of support chat. Whatever you type, even if you don’t press enter, is transmitted right to them as you’re typing it,” user Steve90000 wrote.
WHAT. What kind of cruel world is this, anyway?
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There is a small café…
There is a small café in France that sells coffee to rude customers for €7 while polite customers get coffee for €1.40.
Here’s Why Young People Prefer Saying “No Problem” Instead of “You’re Welcome”
Millennials take a lot of heat from older people for the way they do things. In many cases, it stems from the older generation wanting the younger one to do things their way. But things change, and it’s not always bad – like how the youth respond to “thank you”.
Professor Tom Nichols branded himself the quintessential grumpy old man back in 2015 when he tweeted this angry response to what he perceived as a rash of poor customer service.
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“Dear Every Cashier in America: the proper response to ‘thank you’ is ‘you’re welcome,’ not ‘no problem.’ And *you’re* suppose to thank *me*”
He received a number of responses, the vast majority mocking his attitude, but it one person’s detailed and thoughtful reply makes a lot of sense.
Bottom line? It’s not about being polite, it’s that our views on gratitude are evolving.
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“Actually, the “you’re welcome/no problem” issue is simply a linguistics misunderstanding. Older ppl tend to say “you’re welcome,” younger ppl tend to say “no problem.” This is because for older people the act of helping or assisting someone is seen as a task that is not expected of them, but is them doing extra, so it’s them saying, ‘I accept your thanks because I know I deserve it.”
“No problem, however, is used because younger people feel not only that helping or assisting someone is a given and expected but also that it should be stressed that your need for help was no burden to them (even if it was).”
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“Basically, older people think help is a gift you give, younger people think help is a requirement.”
The explanation, of course, doesn’t apply across the board. There are people in every generation that view service as “no problem” and people who feel like they are doing others a favor, but the idea that “no problem” is somehow disrespectful just isn’t right.
The people who use it are, quite genuinely, sharing that helping you out is “no problem.”
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Maybe, if we realized that doing the right thing – simple or not so much – is actually “no problem” we’d have fewer problems in general.
I mean, maybe not, but it’s worth a shot.
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During combat, a US Marine…
During combat, a US Marine’s rifle jammed, so he called customer service to help him fix it. 01
The world’s oldest known complaint letter was written…
The world’s oldest known complaint letter was written to a Sumerian copper merchant named Ea-Nasir almost 4000 years ago on a clay tablet: “You put ingots which were not good before my messenger and said: ‘If you want to take them, take them; if you do not want to take them, go away!’” 00
A 75 year old woman was arrested after she took a hammer…
A 75 year old woman was arrested after she took a hammer to a Comcast customer service center and smashed up the waiting room. “It had never occurred to me to take a hammer to a phone company before, but I was just so upset…”