The Angry Dieter

Greetings

 

This my post from the Call centre for the last two days - 

 

Saturday 4/9/04

 

It’s a windy blustery day today - and the sky was filled with deep bluish purple clouds as the sun rose in the east slowly. Such an assortment of blues, and the energyin the air, you couldn’t help but feel enthusiastic about the start, despite the fact that I only got about 4 hours sleep last night. so much wind around, it was making a huge noise as it whistled past the TV antenna and through the bars on the windows.

 

I had a crappy keyboard on thursday, it severely slowed my typing down. It was a compaq keyboard, with the spacebar split into two, and if i hit the wrong key it backspaces instead of putting a space. I’ve been listening to other calls today - i have an advisor sitting next to me and there have been a few billing disputes. I guess it could be worse.

 

*pauses to make a tea*

 

I kinda didn’t see any of my usual friends this weekend for my birthday, I felt bad, but I’ll see them on Monday maybe or next Sunday, where there’s apparently a lingerie party being organised! I am going out on Monday lunchtime for lunch/cawfee with a friend recently returned from europe. She sent me all her emails catching everyone up on her journey and it sounded really good. Made me wish I was off travelling overseas. I’ll be doing that next year so I guess that will be ok.

 

Yesterday was pretty cruisy, thanks to some happy coincidences, I managed to get the day off. I was quite happy with this, had a sleep in, watched Lord of the Rings whilst making my mask for a Masquerade party tonight. I have some nice makeup for tonight aswell - so I guess in a way I am looking forward to making myself look purty! A friend asked me to take a picture tonight, so I guess I will. I went out for pizza and beer, instead of Matsuri with friends - everyone else brought me a drink - how cool was that! so the night was cheap for me, and i didn’t fork out a huge amount of money.. I sound like Scrooge McDuck.

 

I’ve only been sitting here an hour, taken about 6 calls - all quite short. 2 people called to disconnect their internet service, was weird. I rang the internl contact number to pass it through to the internet support people, and got some guy who told me off for doing it. I was sitting there saying, “well I dialled internet support what else was I supposed to do?” He said “Well you need to dial XXXX” - I looked at my call number display.. “i did” “oh” he says,  “i’ll take the call then.” Like DUH.

 

One thing I like about working on the weekends is the relaxed and casual atmosphere - everyone wears jeans, passes cookies around, music is turned up and we get to bop. However, I disapprove of the current song, which is Mariah Scarey. How the hell does she reach those notes?

 

Time passes and it’s now 11.50am -I have eaten lunch, and feel a little tired. I think I might need a coffee. I will work hard to avoid this because I am trying to ween myself off it. *snoozes*

 

Actually I was pretty happy with the forum set up for an IRC group - it looks pretty nifty and hopefully will encourage more discussion and chat! Will be easier to exchange ideas and communicate with everyone since we can be really busy and it’s hard for everyone to be around at the same time. Things have calmed down somewhat with regards to IRC and friends. Dealt with outstanding issues over the week, and everything has settled again.

Thanks for the Happy Birthday messages/emails aswell I’ll update my bio thingy to reflect my newly attained status it will be alllll good.

 

Day Two of servitude, Sunday 5/9/04

 

Well I was supposed to go out last night, but a migraine struck and I thought I’d take a couple of pain killers and go lie down for an hour. So.. 7 hours later at 12.30am I wake up. There’s like 4 SMS’s and one missed call. *crap* So I’ll need to return calls/SMS later today and explain why I wasn’t there. I really wanted to go! I made a groovy mask for it! I went back to sleep at 3.00am and slept for another 2 hours and got up again at 5am to get ready for work. I think I look like a wreck today.

 

I’ve taken a few phonecalls so far this morning, and have to apply a call forward always to some nice man’s account at 10am my time so that he can collect calls whilst he is overseas. I need to think about why people wait until the last minute to make these changes to their phones. They don’t think that we might need time to organise all these things for them, as sometimes it can take up to 24 hours blahblah. Please don’t get piss off with call centre staff when we can’t do things straight away for you, simply because these things take time!

 

So I sit here feeling like I haven’t slept for 9 hours, when I have, and disappointed about M this morning. He decided to tell me he might not be awake enough to be waiting for me when I get home to pick him up to drag him to my parent’s house. I gave him enough notice.. it’s not like he didn’t know. So I told him not to bother and I wouldn’t pick him up, I’d just go straight to mum and dad’s. Except he wanted me to call him. There is no way that he’d be ready even if i did call him before I left work - it’s virtually impossible. I guess I shouldn’t feel so negative about it, but it made me feel pretty crap, considering I still have the headache and everything else, I didn’t want to hear him tell me he might not want to go.

 

On the upside, I am sitting next to a geek chick that is building a groovy computer and she’s going to be emailing me the review soon so I can drool over it. The power supply is apparently see-through with nice coloured leds and it makes me wanna buy a whole new computer. I might also add that another chick sitting on the other side of me kinda looks like Britney Spears, and has a rich dad! OMG they have pizza in the call centre and I missed out on paying for some! *sobs* I will just have to think thin.. think thin.. think thin…

EOP (end of post)

 

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