Commenting Counter Thingy, take three!
Well, I've done this before, in 2009 and in 2010, but I'm always curious about this kind of stuff... so without further ado:
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Hey darling! How are you?
(I would have commented when you originally posted, but I think I was sick with the flu. Not fun, and not good company, online or off.)
*pokes you* I still have some invites to Dreamwidth if you want~~
Let me know how you're doing!
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*shines it*
Yeah, I had the flu. It wasn't so bad, in the sense of pampering--I'm pretty good at taking care of myself even when I'm sick. The worst part was that I missed three days of school, and I missed a stats quiz (automatic zero) and I couldn't turn in the worksheet or journal I'd done (more zeros), and the day I got back my biology teacher announced that she had to move up the test.
That sucked.
Thank you for the offer of pampering, though, it's sweet. :D The kitties did the best they could, being cats. Honestly, I was pretty feverish, I don't remember if they did too much comforting or not.
Yay! I thought you might take advantage of that. I'm over there as juniperfan.Also, yay on the sales tips! That's fantastic! I'd hate to be in a job where they expected me to do morally questionable stuff just to sell the product, so fantastically awesome that you've got a way to do your job without making your supervisor glare at you or feeling like you're lying. Yay ( ... )
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That's awful... but I have faith in you. I'm sure you will be able to make up for it. :)
Yeah... believe it or not, there's a point where you can be too nice for a customer service/sales rep. If you empathise too much with the customer, you will try to do what's best for them, not for your goals... and if you don't meet your goals, you get less money at the end of the month. That and your supervisor glares at you, and your coworkers start to resent you because you're not pulling your own weight in the team. If you stay double the time on the line with a customer that has a difficult concern to resolve instead of shipping him off to another department after resolving his concern half-way, that means that the people next to you will have to take the call you didn't while you were ( ... )
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I'm a very nice person by nature and I don't have trouble sounding cheerful and helpful on the line, or sincerely sorry when a cutomer states a concern (though having to say "I'm very sorry to hear that" thirty times or more a day makes it harder and harder to sound truly empathetic every time), so people tend to listen to me when I offer them something, but I find it hard to keep pushing once they state their initial unwillingness to buy something, or try to sell them more than what they're asking for (an additional line or two on top of the main one, for example. Your telephone bill can get positively huge if you have an additional line, even if you don't use it). I know I hate it when salespeople just won't take "no" for an answer, so I hate to have to do it to other people ( ... )
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It really is difficult to seem like you're empathizing when you're tired of saying that you empathize every day. ^^; Poor anyjen! This is temporary, you'll get an awesome job you love soon enough!
Huh, interesting! I kind of figured it was the video-conference call thing, but I've never really known what it is. I don't have a microphone, though, and I don't know if I can get one any time soon.
I can definitely understand wanting to speak with people you actually want to talk to! I haven't answered many phones in my occupations, but I can definitely see your point!
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Awwww. Well, no hurry. I'm not going anywhere. ^^
If you decide you want to go for it, though, my advice is to go for those that come with headphones. A proper headset can make talking on the computer very easy and comfy, particularly if you go all out and get a webcam as well (though like I said, this is entirely optional). Standalone microphones limit your movement a lot; though speaking with a headset feels a lot like having a leash (in that you can't get very far from the computer or it gets unplugged), at least it goes with you every time you move, instead of having to stay close to it in order not to get out of range. It doesn't even have to be very high-tech; even crappy, cheap headsets have decent sound quality and capture your voice often better than regular phones (and definitely better than cellphones). Best of all, a headset leaves your hands free to knit do something else while you talk. ;)
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So, yeah, hopefully moving soon.
I shall look into it! We'll see what happens when I get up there. My funds are pretty low, and I will get some defered comp. from the county in the summer, but...yeah. Tight budget. Doesn't stop me from wanting to splurge on old out-of-print hippie books like this though. (I read it in high school, and I was so so disappointed when I began work at the library and realized it had been weeded/ ( ... )
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What are you going to do about the house while you're away? Will you rent it out, leave it empty, have someone look after it for you? And what about your kitties?
(That... is truly an epic name. Though you wouldn't believe the kind of names that I encounter daily and that people expect to know how to write without spelling them for me. It may tak three or four times to get them right at times. ^^U)
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The house...is kind of up in the air right now. I think I'm going to need a lawyer for probate, and I don't know if I will be able to afford the fees. I think my sister will help if I need it, but I just don't know yet. We'll see what happens.
The kitties are coming with me! I'm going to live off-campus, and I'm going to look for a place that's cat-friendly.
(Isn't it! And I probably would--I did work in a public library for more than half a decade. I saw my share of strange names...and people. I still miss the guy who thinks he's Superman, and I sort-of-not-really miss the guy who thought he was God.
(No, really. His introduction began with "I am the Alpha, the Omega....." etc. He even put it on his print jobs, so we'd know they were his.)
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Good luck with that, sweety!
The kitties are coming with me! I'm going to live off-campus, and I'm going to look for a place that's cat-friendly.
Ah! good to hear that. I was starting to get worried. :)
I still miss the guy who thinks he's Superman, and I sort-of-not-really miss the guy who thought he was God.
(No, really. His introduction began with "I am the Alpha, the Omega....." etc. He even put it on his print jobs, so we'd know they were his.)*snort!* Boy, the weirdoes sort of grow on you, don't they ( ... )
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Ah, no worries about the cats. I'm entirely too attached to them for my own good. (More than once I've thought of buying a VW bus and reducing all my possessions to fit in the back, but the question "What about the cats?" inevitably pops up, and then I think about leaving them, and then I just set that little thought aside.)
We do get attached to our weird weird people. I liked both of those guys, but the Superman guy never bothers any of the patrons or the other staff, and he's kind of gruff but generally pretty polite. The Alpha-Omega dude apparently made some unpleasant comments to some of the staff though, so I'm okay with not seeing him.
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