I Lack Vital Qualifications

[sakon76]

Customer, on the phone, asks to speak with one of the counselors. I tell her that he is on another call, and ask if she would like to hold, or if I should take a message and have him call her back.

"How long is he going to be on the line?"

...When I got this job, I didn't realize being psychic was part of it. Somehow I entirely missed the precognition requirement in the job description. Oops.

(For the record, if I was a precog, I would play the lottery once, then retire, whereupon I would write, garden, sew, and cook, dedicating myself to my arts.)

The customer ended up leaving a message.

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[lyricality.livejournal.com]

My job apparently also requires me to be psychic, so I like to Make Things Up with great authority.

"But how long will I be on the waiting list???"
"Sixteen years."

"But my oven hasn't worked for seven years! It's an emergency!!!!!!1!"
"...Your oven hasn't worked for seven years, and you only called it in today for the first time?"
"Yeah."
"..........They'll be out in another seven years."

But I dare not say such things out loud. D: *sob*

[dragondancer515.livejournal.com]

*snerk* You work for an appliance repair shop? Because, yeah, I used to get calls like that too. XD *high five?*

[dragondancer515.livejournal.com]

LOL yeah. I used to work for an appliance repair shop. My favorite one was when they'd ask to speak to a technician, so I'd give them to my boss if he had the time - he'd listen to them describe what was wrong . . . depending on either that they were regular customers that he knew pretty well or else how reasonable they sounded (that they weren't likely to come back with "BUT HE TOLD ME /THIS/!" when a repair tech told them the problem was actually something else), he'd go ahead and tentatively tell them that it SOUNDED to him like it MIGHT be "x" that was wrong. Most times, though, it was "I'm sorry, ma'am, I can't see it over the phone" before he'd book a call for a tech to go out there, or get the person back to me to me to do so. XD

[kageokami666.livejournal.com]

Both my jobs are like that.

my job at the retirement village is the worse out of the two (as far as people expecting me to be psychic) since some of the old folks are a little loopy.

One old lady is particularly bad she will call down to my desk numerous times saying she is trying to call her daughter and her daughter is not answering the phone then asks if I know where her daughter is and why she's not answering her phone. Usually I have to patiently explain that I don't know where her daughter is or why she's not answering, that maybe she is not home or she's out side or just can't answer the phone and that she should try calling again in an hour or two. (her daughter is an adult with teenage children of her own)

If I was psychic I would be following your plan and playing the lottery so I can spend my life doing crafts (possibly to sell but without the stress of relying on that income)