'My new favourite technique': Call center worker tells the "passive aggressive" tip they use for cranky customers

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    My new favourite technique is passive aggressive silence.
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    When I get abusive or customers on the phone who are demanding something we can't give them, I politely give them my answer and then go silent. This makes the
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    customer angry and we are both just sat there in silence whilst they expect me to say something else. And then they get shocked that I'm willing to sit there in awkward silence and they
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    finally say "are you still there!!?!?" And I say yes, and then they aggressively go "so is that it then!!?!?" And then I politely say yes.
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    And they can't believe I won't bow down to their demands or shocked they can't talk to me like and that I will willingly sit in there in silence no matter how awkward it is. It's
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    passive aggressive without being and they can't complain that I said at all anything because I didn't actually say anything at all. I love it lol.
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    Just had the most amazing call where a woman failed security and wouldn't accept calling back. And she rudely goes "I don't hear you typing and getting on with my query!" So I say,
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    you need to call back to re- attempt security which is why I won't continue (after we've been round this in circles over and over and over again). And we still there in awkward silence for
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    at least 1 minute, she's expecting me to cave in and when I don't she finally finds the silence too awkward and screams "are you there!?" And I say yes.
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    Then she goes "so that's it? Right I'm taking you to the police!" And hangs up Imao. How do you deal with customers
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    dr3i_ Yes! This is one of my favorites. Silence is perceived as rejection, I really only resort to it when there's no more talking needed, once the customers become a wall, so do i
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    A very polite silent wall. From there it's "I've provided all of the relevant details and cannot dispute this further" until we're on another topic.
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    PQ jtrisn1 This is also a favorite of mine. It's low effort and despite it being awkward for us, it is WAY more awkward for them and it kind of puts out some of their fire.
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    These people can only act like this because people in their lives let them and they take the bait whenever these dumbasses wants to fight. Meeting
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    someone who won't take the bait is like blindfolding them snd turning them in circles really quickly LMAO
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    GandizzleTheGrizzle We aren't allowed to have long periods of silence as one of our ridiculous metrics So, one - if they are yelling I like to say that my earphones malfunction and cut out when they
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    yell and I cant hear them. "Every time you scream my headphones cut out, I'm sorry I cant hear you at all" And my other favorite is to get really nice. Sickly sweet, nice and useless as a snake with
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    I become dumb as a box of sticks and then I try to get them to say something that will let me roll them over into what I call "robot which is one of the automated systems for our affiliates. This puts them into a
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    automated queue that is a nightmare to navigate. It's notoriously bad. - and it's also wrong. As in the wrong place. There is nothing on the other side of that that can get their questions answered. My bad, silly mistake.
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    Transferred you to the wrong place. Now you will have to navigate that. Find out it's not what you want or need. now you've wasted more time there.
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    Now you will have to call back and go through our automated system again, wait in the queue, again. When all you had to do is be a decent human being the first time.

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