Friday, February 08, 2008

Mobile Mayhem

If there's one thing worse than having a mobile phone that resolutely refuses to work, it's having to speak to Customer Care to try and fix it. Which is what I did yesterday. If for some inexplicable reason you have not had to go through this yourself, this is roughly how it goes:

*If you'd like to report a problem, press 1*
*If you'd like to speak to an Associate about a specific problem, press 2*
*If you've pressed 2 before listening to options 3 and 4, press 5*
*If you think that options 1 and 2 sound exactly the same, press 6*
*If you'd like to take a minute to break your own knees in frustration, press 7*


After all this, if by some miracle you do actually get to speak to a real person (real being a largely relative term), you will most likely spend the next fifteen minutes listening to the most sincere sounding bollocks that you start to have genuine fears for your own sanity. *If you'd like to place this call on hold and connect to our suicide hotline, press 8*

The future's shite. And nothing rhymes with Orange.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Funny. I like options 7 and 8. Unfortunately, Airtel doesnt offer such comic relief. You sound more and more firang everyday, ken.

Maggie said...

Hm ... just had similar experience ... Contemplating return to the collective unconscious and telepathy ... those were the days!!!

~ M