Topic: The Chit-Chat Thread

@Delibheel
Musou LOL 😆
Actually....
Farmer's Dynasty is like this.

Thanks for the Birthday wishes y’all! It’s on Feb 2, but everyone has been celebrating it today since a lot of us are doing weekend work at the office tomorrow.

Also, it’s carrot cake. And it’s all mine. 😛

Oh man, like the carrots and onions that are on Spiral Mountain in Banjo? I’d chop ‘em! Then a fast metal remix of the Children of the Corn theme plays while you work your way towards the adults behind the veggie uprising.

If it's carrot cake, you can keep it then. It's one of the very few cake types that I'm not that fond of. It's also deceptively "healthy"....

Sounds a bit like a Plants Vs. Zombies mashup.

@JackEatsSparrows Ah, it's your birthday? Well, in that case, congrats. What with all the lousy colleague stories I see you post on a regular basis, I do hope that you get to reach your retirement in relatively good health, so here's to that.

🎉 🎈 🎂 Happy birthday____! This is Geoffrey the Giraffe from Toys R Us!

@ReaderRagfihs I always loved getting those calls. I would never redeem the discount though since it excluded all the cool stuff. No regrets.

Hey guys, how long would you wait, past an expected delivery date, before you would get angry? How long would you wait before you assume it isn't coming? I bought a book for my mother and it's well past the expected delivery date. Just looking for opinions.

@Heavyarms55 A couple of days? But I don't get angry, I just contact them and ask about the status of the delivery

@ThanosReXXX Thanks! And it works out cuz the colleagues I do get on with well are the ones that matter 😂. I’m 34, so I’ve got quite the years of more stories.

@Heavyarms55 I usually wait a day or to then call and see if it got hung up somewhere.

I don’t remember getting the toys r us calls. Parents probably intercepted them, I bet.

@BigGuyBerg Thanks, yo! That cake looks like crunchy wafers. What’s it like?

@JackEatsSparrows @Octane Guess you guys are more rational than I am. I am fairly angry at them.

@Heavyarms55 Well, it is for your mom in your case. I’d be more annoyed if my order was for someone else too.

@JackEatsSparrows This is even the second gift I have bought for someone where this kind of thing happened. But that ended up fairly easy to resolve, so maybe this one will turn out easy too. I hope.

@Heavyarms55 Although it's understandable, don't get angry, but simply lay the ball in their court, which is what
I would do. Me being a sales & marketing rep myself always helps me in situations like these. Here's how that goes:

You call the help desk or whatever, and when you've got the person on the phone, the first thing you do is simply explain the current situation, and don't let them get a word in between, other than "aha, okay, I see" and so on...

Then immediately after that, you say "now, I know this is obviously not your personal fault, but how do you think that you can help me get this fixed, so I can still receive that book that I ordered, and which I still would very much like to receive?" (and if you feel comfortable with it, do emphasize those two words that I wrote in bold letters)

This may look and sound silly, but it actually does two things: it positions you as a VERY patient, but still disadvantaged customer, AND it subconsciously gives a compliment to the help desk agent, because this is one of the most positive ways that you could express a problem or complaint. Getting angry creates resistance, which is not what we, as customer, would want. We want our article, so it's always best to be the wisest party of the two, and simply play the people on the other end, to get what you want.

All of this creates a situation in which the help desk agent will lean towards you. Of course, it's their work, so normally they should already do that, but actually making them feel for you and wanting to do that, takes a little more effort, although it's not really much of an effort, just a bit of acting, and keeping your perhaps disgruntled self in check, because that's not going to get you anywhere.

Well, whatever happens, good luck with getting that book you ordered.

@JackEatsSparrows Haha, well do keep those stories coming. Most of them crack me up, simply because I can relate to them in some ways, having been a team leader of a sales & marketing crew, which had some overlap with some of the stuff that you come across on a daily basis.

While I was in town for breakfast, I went by work’s main office to turn in some reports. The CEO heard me talking with my supervisor on the way out and hollered down the hall;
CEO; Happy Birthday!
Me; Thanks
CEO; I was hoping you’d bring some cake or a groundhog!
Me;.....I ate them both. quietly exits hallway while they keep laughing and rambling

Sautéed groundhog with onions and peppers is a rich delicacy.

So this just happened.

Oh my, that's scandalous!

Charge your phone!

Don’t worry I’m at 20% now.