'They did what every company would with recorded lines: they pulled the calls': Call center worker hangs up on caller repeatedly, bosses back them up

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    Font - If you cuss before you tell me why, I'm hanging up. S So. This just happened. I had a caller, we will call IC (Irate Caller). Call goes a little like this. Me: Thank you for calling, This is Sleepernick. IC: FK YOU AND THAT STUPID COMPANY YOU WORK FOR! NOBODY TH... Me: Click.
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    Font - And I go on about my business. I didn't know where he was from, what company, what his gripe was, anything. And he didn't let me get out the information about my company before he started yelling and cussing. Whatever. 5 Minutes later. Get another call. Same guy.
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    Rectangle - Me: Thank you for calling, This is Sleepernick. IC: YOU F YOU F Me: Click. HUNG UP ON ME C ! I DEM...
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    Font - And I go on about my business. This is all on a recorded line. I don't have to explain myself why I hung up to anyone either because I can just say "Pull the call" and they can see he was extremely aggressive right off the gate. Oh well.
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    Font - About 5 more minutes later. Same guy. Last call. Yay! ME: Thank you for calli... IC: IF YOU HANG UP ON ME ONE MORE TIME I SWEAR TO GO IM GOING TO THE F GETTING YOU F Me: Okay. *Click* CEO AND FIRED!
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    Font - Honestly, I'm not this b sy usually. But we had just had a meeting about dealing with irate customers and how if you can't identify their connection with the company, you don't need to deal with the anger.
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    Font - Welp. They call my boss and immediately start yelling about me and how I'm bad at the company.
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    Font - Ha. Ha. Ha. НАНАНАНАНАНАНАНАНАНА. So they did what every company would with recorded lines. They pulled the calls.
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    Human body - And they heard what he said. No information, no attempt to help himself, nothing. Funny story.
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    Font - Especially when you factor in the fact that the guy had the wrong number the entire time.
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    Font - [deleted] Where I work, we're supposed to somewhat lay down with the insincere "I'm sorry to hear that, how can I help?" And only if the customer continues, we warn them before eventually hang up. That said, we also had meetings about lost work and some POS screaming is very likely going to get a click from me. If no account populated during that call, there is less hesitation.
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    Font - Skinjob85 And this is the reason why I am calm and courteous to anyone working on a help line. A) It's way more likely they will be inclined to help me B) I was on the other end of those calls for 5 years, and know what a difference it makes.
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    Font - We have to warn them 3 times before we can just disconnect. I wish i couldve just noped outta a few calls. 70 Reply Share sleepernick OP. Depending on the situation, we aren't "supposed" to. I stick to that usually cause I can deal with irate pretty well if I can understand the problem. But if they start out yelling, we don't have to.
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    Font - jkuhl We're not suppose to hang up without a warning. But on my last day, I had one of these. And I didn't give a f anymore. It felt SOOO000 nice.
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    Font - Gingerzing Years ago I worked in the call center for a company that sold group disability income policies to employers. One day a lady called raging at me because she had not received her check in the mail. I looked and saw we had mailed it on the same day we had been for months. I said her mail must be running slow. She started cursing me out so I hung up on her.
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    Font - Plot twist, the employer group was US Postal Supervisors. She called back to complain to my supervisor. He told her we are allowed to hang up on abusive callers. She started cursing at him so he hung up on her too. We ended up dropping that group due to really bad claims experience. We think many of them were fake or over-exaggerated to get out of work.
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    Font - ColNickk Luckily at my job, we are only required on warning before we can hang up. Something to the effect of " sir of ma'am, we need to have a professional conversation if we're going to continue. If you continue to curse at me, I'll be disconnecting the call." Nine times out of ten that works, but every once in a while it just infuriates them even more. Hopefully this person didn't ruin your day. Cheers.

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