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This was awesome and reminds me of my days at Stream, a call center in the U.S. that sucked to work for. The funniest part for me though is the fact that they used mostly the soundtrack to Inglourius Basterds.
Oh, this is just too beautiful. I can’t believe it. After all those horrifying times I’ve had to wait forever just talk to an actual human being, this is true justice. They’re my heroes.
Props to the guys, but am I the only one who feels sorry for the security guard? The idiots in charge of the company and its policies at most had to walk a few extra steps to get to the office, whereas this poor guy who sounded like he was just trying to do his job got three and a half hours of hassle. Good idea, poor execution.
I think it was a great idea, don’t get me wrong. But it would have been infinitely better if they targeted people at the managerial / executive level rather than some poor low-level schlub just trying to do his job.
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of one story from Finnish army; a platoon of an AAA -battery was in training, the matter being trained how to use a Soviet -made NSV heavy machinegun (12.7mm, or as americans would say, .50cal), when the instructor got a call from a telemarketer, the instructor yelled at the marketer “listen I have a loaded machinegun and I am about to use it!” The telemarketer hung up and did not call again.
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January 25th, 2011 at 11:27 am
This was awesome and reminds me of my days at Stream, a call center in the U.S. that sucked to work for. The funniest part for me though is the fact that they used mostly the soundtrack to Inglourius Basterds.
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January 25th, 2011 at 4:26 pm
That was horrible. That was so horrible it was glorious.
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January 25th, 2011 at 4:33 pm
Excellent! I don’t know how those guys managed not to laugh during the calls. And then it turns out they’re…no, never mind, no spoilers.
Now, do it again, and pretend to be in a call center in India.
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January 25th, 2011 at 5:06 pm
Oh, this is just too beautiful. I can’t believe it. After all those horrifying times I’ve had to wait forever just talk to an actual human being, this is true justice. They’re my heroes.
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January 25th, 2011 at 5:12 pm
P.S.- The compensatory gift segment was pure gold. How awesome is that?
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Squab reply on January 26th, 2011 1:56 am:
No, it’d be awesome if they actually delivered the box, lol.
I do agree that they seemed to have targeted the wrong person though =/
Still hilariously epic.
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January 25th, 2011 at 7:30 pm
Props to the guys, but am I the only one who feels sorry for the security guard? The idiots in charge of the company and its policies at most had to walk a few extra steps to get to the office, whereas this poor guy who sounded like he was just trying to do his job got three and a half hours of hassle. Good idea, poor execution.
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January 25th, 2011 at 8:49 pm
I feel sorry for the poor security guards, but that was hilarious.
Perhaps they could have put the box in executive parking?
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January 25th, 2011 at 9:41 pm
Gotta go with Texan on this one.
I think it was a great idea, don’t get me wrong. But it would have been infinitely better if they targeted people at the managerial / executive level rather than some poor low-level schlub just trying to do his job.
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January 26th, 2011 at 2:51 pm
I used to work at a call center, and there were days that I wished i could pull some of this.
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February 4th, 2011 at 3:02 pm
This one’s pretty good but the best I’ve seen by far is this one. http://27bslash6.com/f4s.html
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February 9th, 2011 at 2:31 pm
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of one story from Finnish army; a platoon of an AAA -battery was in training, the matter being trained how to use a Soviet -made NSV heavy machinegun (12.7mm, or as americans would say, .50cal), when the instructor got a call from a telemarketer, the instructor yelled at the marketer “listen I have a loaded machinegun and I am about to use it!” The telemarketer hung up and did not call again.
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February 10th, 2011 at 6:01 am
Is is just me, or was the security guard professional (more or less) from beginning to end?
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