I just had a phone call from Comcast High-Speed Internet. Got it out of the girl that she's 17 years old.
She's trying to tell me something about computers, and I pointed out that I have had a computer since 1982. She said that was impossible, they didn't start selling home computers till 1990. (Oh, then what WAS that on Larry's dorm room desk in 1978, if not a computer?) By 1990, I was lusting after Heidi's T-1000 laptop.
Then I said I was perfectly happy running a 56,000 baud modem. She corrected me that it's either "bits" or "bytes". I suggested her homework for the day was to look up baud and determine that the old lady did, in fact, know more about computer technology than she does. Then she corrected me that "anyway, it's a 56K modem, not a whatever you said."
At this point, why would I want to buy anything from someone who is clearly both a liar and a moron?
So she screams at me some more about how she knows more about computers than I do. Oh, yeah? I'd just like to see her deal with a computer that only speaks DOS ... or worse yet, C/PM.
Clearly, she knows nothing about either computers or telemarketing.
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You might want to send that girl my way then. I have used computers longer than she's been alive (about 24 years or so).
Fact! - First computers were around in the 1970s called IBM-PC, BBC-B, Atari, Amiga (which was way better than a 1990 PC in 1980).
Fact! - A modem is EITHER a 56,000 baud OR a 56K modem. You are both right there. Baud refers to how fast the modem can transfer data, 56K refers to capacity of the modem. I wonder what she'd say if you told her about 1200 modems (LOL). We had one of them attached to our Amiga running a BBS system called TrekNet in 1992 (BBS is the grandad of Internet as we know it now).
And I think that someone reading from a script written by someone else does not know NADA!!! My husband can talk people through repairing extremely complex computer problems OVER THE PHONE. This girl wouldn't last 15 seconds with my husband scrutinising her (LOL).
Hmm, just thought. If she's so great about telemarketing and selling, maybe she's in the wrong job. Or maybe she is because more cleverer people beat her to the nicer jobs. ;-))
Nathalie
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