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Monday, March 09, 2009

Minions #154 - Unsupported



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Stand by, following some typical jibber-jabber for a time-out from your Minion Master!

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Greetings, Hold-overs!

Let's face it. If you've ever called a "customer support" line, you know they're all run by the Forces of Evil.

If nothing else, you know that in this day of iPods, a technology company shouldn't have music-on-hold that sounds like it's being played from a hand-wound Victrola through two tin-cans and some string.

They've got some great music in India. While you've got half the population at slave-wages to read scripts about how the problem with your crap product is actually the fault of somebody else's crap product, maybe you could spend an extra dollar-a-day and pay somebody to pick up a sitar or something...

Meanwhile, keep your customer complaints -- uh -- comments coming. We love to hear from you!

- Your Outsource Minion Master, Steve

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Man, that awful music thing gets me!
The only reason I appreciate the music being on at all is so I know I haven't been hung up on yet!
Smiles!
C

Anonymous said...

LOL! Now THAT is a wage SLAVE! Assuming he's getting wages, that is.

cakequeen said...

That pic is so cool and humorous.
I know, I h8 having to wait while they play that music too. I had about five different types played at me once.
Once they played a Duffy tune (Welsh) so that was gr8! ;D
Do you ever make mistakse like this J. Steven York? I do it all the tiem when I'm writign. It can get raelly annoying. Especilaly when yoiu are writing a long piece.