The "Bare Minimum" Game (offshoot of the Clod Challenge)

[Lisbeth]

I'll try it out.  I'm the Indifferent Waitress.

Hi, have a seat-wherever you can find one.

It's not cleaned up?  There's a garbage pail over there-you can put the trash over there.

The menus are in that holder there.  Help yourselves.  No, we don't have a kid's menu.

You want a drink?  There's the bar.

Tonight's special? It's posted on that blackboard over there.  Unfortunately, the blackboard is fastened to the wall.  You're welcome to get up and go take a look at it.

I'm sorry, we're out of filet mignon tonight.  I don't know what else we have available-you can go in the kitchen and ask the cook.

Oh, I got your order wrong?  Sorry about that. Yes we can get you another one but we don't do comps if you're ordering something else.

Hey, you forgot to tip!  Don't worry, we'll add it to your bill.

[willow08]

Oh, no, now I'm inspiring games based on rudeness?
 

[Musicwoman]

MPCD: Good evening this is MobilePhoneCompanyDrone how can I help you

Musicwoman; Hello, my husband had a phone account with you and he's recently died.  I was wondering if I could change...

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; (Stunned silence).  He's dead.

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; (Longer stunned silence).  He's DEAD!

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; Cancel the account and send the bill to his executor.

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

(Musicwoman hangs up).

True story.

[freakyfemme]

MPCD: Good evening this is MobilePhoneCompanyDrone how can I help you

Musicwoman; Hello, my husband had a phone account with you and he's recently died.  I was wondering if I could change...

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; (Stunned silence).  He's dead.

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; (Longer stunned silence).  He's DEAD!

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; Cancel the account and send the bill to his executor.

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

(Musicwoman hangs up).

True story.

*Hugs Musicwoman*  Wow, that lady was so callous.....that's not even funny, it's just MEAN, I mean, who does that to someone who's just lost a loved one?  I hope she was fired for that.

[Lisbeth]

MPCD: Good evening this is MobilePhoneCompanyDrone how can I help you

Musicwoman; Hello, my husband had a phone account with you and he's recently died.  I was wondering if I could change...

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; (Stunned silence).  He's dead.

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; (Longer stunned silence).  He's DEAD!

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

Musicwoman; Cancel the account and send the bill to his executor.

MPCD; I have to speak to the account holder before I can make any changes.

(Musicwoman hangs up).

True story.

<hugs> I'm so sorry you had to deal with a customer disservice clod after your husband died.  Nobody needs that.

[willow08]

Musicwoman, I'm so sorry. Surely, yours is not the first case of someone with a cell phone account  passing away. I would think they would have some sort of policy accomodating that.

[freakyfemme]

Musicwoman, I'm so sorry. Surely, yours is not the first case of someone with a cell phone account  passing away. I would think they would have some sort of policy accomodating that.

Yeah, how did it work out in the end?

[Musicwoman]

I shuffled the whole thing onto my late husband's executor.  He apparently had the power to change things even though he wasn't the all-important account holder.  So the final bill had to be paid through the estate and they had to wait months for the money (I WAS going to pay the final bill myself, but after that fiasco was not inclined to make things easy for them).  Hah!  And then they contacted ME (whose name was not on the contract) to hassle me for the money. 

I told them they had to talk to the account holder.

[Suze]

and then you have the other side of the coin -- the worker who wants to do sometheng before you have even told them what you want.

When My Dad passed a few years ago I wanted the house phone changed to my name.

ME: My Father has passed away and I would like to......

OPR: I will cancel that number for you right away.

ME: No -- I want to  put that ..............

OPR: If you give me the number I can get that canceled now.

Repeat several times till I get far enough along to get through to dumb chick that I only want to Change the listing.

Just one more thing to add to the headach pile. 

[blue2000]

Ah, the opposite of the "bare minimum" - the "way-too-helpful person"!!!

So helpful, in fact, that you end up either wanting to avoid them, or wanting to duct-tape their mouths shut so you can get a word in edgewise.

Do you ever notice, though, that the "help" they want to give you is almost never what you actually need?

[Scritzy]

I am Don'tKnow A. ThingAboutCrafts. Even though I work in the craft store, how the hang am I supposed to know about any of this stuff. Just what is a scrapbook, anyway? A book about scraps? No, I don't know where the sequins are located. You'll have to ask my brother, Don'tCare A. ThingAboutCrafts. He's wandering in the aisles somewhere.

Who, me? No, I don't know where the sequins are. Read my nametag. I'm Don'tCare A. ThingAboutCrafts. Why don't you ask the other worker wandering in the aisles? Her name is WhyThe H. R. YouBotheringMe?

Sequins? What are sequins? I don't know, look on the aisle that has that fuzzy stuff. I don't know what the fuzzy stuff is either. Read my name tag. I'm WhyThe H. R. YouBotheringMe? Gotta go, it's time for my break.

And the moral of the story, dear children, is, if you want to know something about crafts, ask Scritzy, who doesn't work in the store but at least knows what she's doing.