Random MSN Gibberings LXIX: Open your mouth, here's your money

[JB]

Weirdos. Why did only the bloke get put on the sex offenders list though?

Cos incest is illegal. Not sure why it was only him though. Maybe because he paid her.

 

[parttime crackhead]

Oh dont worry I'll be careful on that one, last year I sat in the car on the sode of the road for the best part of an hour listening to Creep by Radio Head and crying

I made a girl cry by getting her to watch this version of Creep - http://youtu.be/hXlzci1rKNM - That homeless guy shits all over Thom Yorke when it comes to singing that tune even though Thom Yorke is one of the creepiest wee goblin looking cunts I've ever seen.

Sounds right up my street, have an empty house at the mo, but going to put a bit of Asian Dub Foundation on, they always give me a bit of lift....I'd play them in the car but I dont tink I got da Rims for it blood

Ahh nice one, I'd actually completely forgot about Asian Dub Foundation, I used to listen to them all the time. Gonna get some downloaded.

haha my username is cos i originally joined this forum to find out about a shite pill i bought, so didn't really think it through

Same. Fuck knows where it even came from. I think someone had called me a weekend junkie or a parttime crackhead the week before because at the time I lived/acted like a normal person during the week then spent the whole weekend rolling about in a total swedged up mess (usually wearing some ridiculous outfit - like going to the shop with a lampshade on my head because I thought it looked like a cool hat etc). I really wish I could change it because I've never even seen crack, never mind actually smoked it, but I can't be fucked creating a new account.

This is a woman who is willing to deny the basic principles of cause, effect, action and reaction in order to 'win' an argument.

Haha, I can relate to that. It's better to win than to be right

When she says it's alright that she slapped me becuse I called her a dickhead immediately afterwards then there's summat not right.

Excellent logic lol. A preemptive strike.

 

[TheSpade]

I know incest is illegal but why weren't they both locked up / put on the list.

I could apparently get the sack from work. Had this nippy customer on the phone this afternoon and she said to me "I've been told a lot of crap, stop telling me crap". I replied "I assure you I'm not telling you 'crap' I'm trying to help you". was just using the same word she used and if it had been 'shit' or something a little more extreme I wouldn't have said it. Afterwards my coach, who is sound, said that this manager who's down from Nottingham to watch over us heard it and if she reports it I'd likely be sacked as people have been sacked for much less.

 

[Munroe]

You hate that job anyway.
RE incest, don't see what the problem is as long as they don't spawn inbred manlets.

 

[parttime crackhead]

I know incest is illegal but why weren't they both locked up / put on the list.

I can't be fucked reading the story again but I'm sure I heard/read that the brother might be getting put on "The List" but not the sister, what the fuck's that about? It's OK for a bird to shag her brother but not for a guy to shag his sister? They really should just put them both down. I love the fact that they did it in the lift at Motherwell train station haha, other than inside an actual bin I can think of no jakier place to get your hole.

I could apparently get the sack from work. Had this nippy customer on the phone this afternoon and she said to me "I've been told a lot of crap, stop telling me crap". I replied "I assure you I'm not telling you 'crap' I'm trying to help you". was just using the same word she used and if it had been 'shit' or something a little more extreme I wouldn't have said it. Afterwards my coach, who is sound, said that this manager who's down from Nottingham to watch over us heard it and if she reports it I'd likely be sacked as people have been sacked for much less.

That's utter pish. No-one would even have batted an eyelid at my work if I'd said that to a "customer". I've said things like "want to just shut up for one minute?" etc & never had any bother. You really can get away with murder where I work though. One boy was taken off the phones for 3 months (still going to work & still getting paid, just doing random paperwork & whatever they could find for him to do other than take calls) because he told someone to get to fuck haha, anywhere else & that would surely be instant dismissal.

 

[TheSpade]

I do hate the job Munro but getting sacked means finding a new job and sets my travel plans back by a bit. I'd rather just keep on at this one till I've got enough money together, less hassle.

Aye we'd never get away with that PTCH plus being an agency wiorker I have little right so I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get rid of me. I think it would be different if I used the word crap first but I didn't and don't personally think of it as a big deal. Didn't even realise what I'd said till I came off the call and if that manager hadn't been there wouldn't have thought twice about it. Apparently someone was sacked because a customer said to them "I don't like your attitude" to which he replied "I don't like yours either". :D

 

[parttime crackhead]

I do hate the job Munro but getting sacked means finding a new job and sets my travel plans back by a bit. I'd rather just keep on at this one till I've got enough money together, less hassle.

Aye we'd never get away with that PTCH plus being an agency wiorker I have little right so I'm sure it wouldn't be hard to get rid of me. I think it would be different if I used the word crap first but I didn't and don't personally think of it as a big deal. Didn't even realise what I'd said till I came off the call and if that manager hadn't been there wouldn't have thought twice about it. Apparently someone was sacked because a customer said to them "I don't like your attitude" to which he replied "I don't like yours either". :D

I would get slightly told off if I said crap to someone first but not if I was repeating what they'd said to me. I say stuff like that attitude thing almost every day. It's the small thing, like being a cunt to some of the arseholes that phone up, that help me get through a day at work. In my previous call centre job I would get absolutely fucked for the way I speak to people, I used to get in trouble just because I didn't attempt to have trivial conversations with people (eg, How has your day been? Have you any plans for the weekend?) or because I wouldn't bow down to someone who had a massive mortgage or loads of savings any more than I would the wee guy who's overdrawn & skint.

My work is so badly ran that it's laughable. For example, I imagine you get a set number of calls pulled every week/month & listened to by your manager as a random check that you're not just talking shite to people. We get 3 pulled a month, always from the 1st 2 days of the month so after that you're pretty much free to say whatever the fuck you want to someone as long as they don't make a formal complaint about it. It's mental that no-one higher up seems to be aware of this massive flaw in their call monitoring system.

As much as I hate my job the now I deal with it by thinking about how much better it is than my old job, I forget that sometimes. It wasn't until I went looking for a new job & all I could see that I had a chance of getting was £12k a year call centre customer service/sales in disguise jobs that I started to appreciate, as far as call centres go, I've got a pretty cushy number. I still fucking hate it though.

 

[JedTheHumanoid]

^ Surely they have the recording of the call though Spade? I had to sack an agency workers once after they told a social worker they were 'acting like a twat'...

 

[TheSpade]

I don't know if all calls are recorded or not, I've heard mixed stories about that. As for getting calls pulled and listened to every week PTCH, not quite. In fact I've been there over 4 months and until last week not once did I ever have any call feedback or a review of how I was doing. Thought that was a bit weird to be honest as surely we could have been saying any old shite to folk and no one would be any the wiser. I've been totally bullshitting my way through calls frm the beginning because half the time I have no clue what's going or or why something has happened and my techical / product knowledge is non existant, I just make it sound convincing so I'm told. Then last week some women from England came up to listen into our calls and make sure we're doing what we're supposed to as none of the managers in my work are trained to do the job my team does (which means you can't ask them for any help) got feedback from her on 3 calls she chose at random and she also sat in and listened to a couple right next to me as I took them today. She's off again next week so that'll be the end of that. Our managers just push us to make sales as if their team gets the most leads / money they make cash out of it. Pisses me off.

 

[Myshkin]

we could have been saying any old shite to folk and no one would be any the wiser.

I thought that was just part and parcel of being Scottish.

 

[JedTheHumanoid]

I'm never going to be able to resist asking every Scottish callcentre worker I speak to whether they are spade. We should have a code word so that you can identify yourself.

EADD scottish contingent; I'm off to Edinburgh this weekend. Any food/bar recommendations (bearing in mind the romantic/anniversary leanings of the occasion?

 

[parttime crackhead]

Jed - Go to Glasgow, that would be my suggestion. I was watching old Chewin The Fat episodes earlier. Great bit of chat in one of them "You'll have more fun at a Glasgow stabbing than an Edinburgh wedding."

Our managers just push us to make sales as if their team gets the most leads / money they make cash out of it. Pisses me off.

I fucking hate sales & particularly hate managers of salesmen who are often ridiculously pushy. I was told one time when I worked at PC World that the guy I had sitting down at a desk, with a trolley full with a PC & shitloads of other crap that he didn't really need but I'd told him he did, wasn't leaving with that PC unless he took an extended warranty even though he was adamant from the very start of the conversation before he'd even decided on what PC to buy that he wasn't wanting any insurance/extended warranty. The guy ended up fucking fuming at me & storming out, losing me a £1500 sale, but my manager was happy with this because all he was concerned about was the percentage of PCs that we sold with cover. Same guy had a right go at me because I told him the person I was selling a PC to wasn't taking the cover so I lost it a bit & told him if you think the insurance is that fucking good then why don't you go over & sell it to him, which he made a miserable attempt at doing (not even knowing the prices, or exactly what it covered) & again the guy left without buying anything when he'd basically been sitting with his credit card in his hand ready to pay for stuff.

That manager was a fucking wanker, strangely though as soon as we left work he was sound, he drove past my bit when I used to stay in the gorbals so would give me a lift home sometimes, he was like a completely different person as soon as he didn't have his 'Manager' badge & his shitty wee clipboard. I told him this once while pished on a work night out "Stewart, you know you're actually pretty sound but see in work... you're a fucking wanker". Got over an hour of abuse off him & the actual store boss at the start of my next shift, I stopped going to work nights out after that lol.

That was honestly the worst job ever. I'd rather shovel shite for a living than go back there. I've not even set foot in a PC World since I quit over 4 years ago.

 

[Danny Weed]

I fuckin hate PC world, always trying to sell you shitty anti viruses and that. I stopped going in ages ago.

 

[Allein]

I made a girl cry by getting her to watch this version of Creep - http://youtu.be/hXlzci1rKNM - That homeless guy shits all over Thom Yorke when it comes to singing that tune even though Thom Yorke is one of the creepiest wee goblin looking cunts I've ever seen.

I have to say I prefer the Radio Head version as a piece of music, but that guy brings a reality to the track that you just can't deny, really enjoyed that one thanks.

Got right back into Asian Dub Foundation of late, trying to listen to less depressing music for at least some of the time, to much Throbbing Gristle, PIL and PTV isn't good for me...juts a little is a must though

 

[JedTheHumanoid]

Got some TG on now, never really listened to it before. Fucking hell! That has certainly woken me up. The downside being I now want to kill everyone else on the train...

ATM - any albums you'd particulary recommend?

 

[Allein]

^^^

DOA and 20 Jazz Funk Greats, also for something more melodic you might want to try a bit of Psychic TV (setup by Genesis P-Orridge fromTG) Dreams Less Sweet is a fine piece of work.

But if your getting all industrial, you musnt miss out on one of my all time favorite albums, Metal Box by Public Image Limited, a bit more genuine new wave than industrial but none the less a master piece IMO.

"happy" listening:D

 

[Myshkin]

Got some TG on now, never really listened to it before. Fucking hell! That has certainly woken me up. The downside being I now want to kill everyone else on the train...

ATM - any albums you'd particulary recommend?

I agree with atm's suggestions, with DOA just edging it for me. And PTV are definitely more neighbour-friendly, most of the time.

This charming little ditty is also one of my favourite TG tunes too. Mustn't overlook that. If you make it through part one you're officially as fucked up as me.

Metal Box is indeed PiL's masterpiece, however you categorise it genre-wise (if you must do these things). Whitehouse are always entertaning too. In a slightly brutal way...

Oh, and don't get me started on that other nasty band...

 

[Allein]

^^^^

That TG track gives me the fekin shivers

 

[brimz]

ATM i must have seen Asian Dub Foundation countless times , they dids all the festivals for about 3 years straight 93/96 i think .
Love em , can't dig them so much at home live they are just mind blowing .
Saw them at a Trade Union anti racisim free gig at Victoria Park they kicked it that day.

 

[Myshkin]

I saw ADF a couple of times in the late '90s, once supporting Primal Scream. ADF almost blew them offstage - would've done so easily had it not been for the fact that Kevin Shields was playing third guitar for the Scream at the time.

That TG track gives me the fekin shivers

I end up with the 'chorus' in my head. I used to sing it when I was out shopping with my ex (again, this probably explains the split).

All together now: Ian Braaaaady and Myyyyyrrrra Hindleeeeey are verrrrryyyy friendlyyyyyyyy...