h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

God, some people are fscking idiots. Really.

You don't work in the service industry, do you?

I do, yes.

Wow. How could I tell? Aren't the general public.... *ahem*... some of the general public absolute gits?

That they are. Though I must admit that working in a call centre seems to be worse than working in a store ever was. There's just something about the telephone that turns ordinarily intelligent people into drooling morons...

A call centre? Yuk. Not nice. You must get more abuse there than anywhere else.

Surprisingly not so much abuse, just daft people. I work in the classifieds department of a newspaper company. We produce 17 local newspapers across Sydney, each different names but owned by a banner company called **** Newspaper Group. But the amount of people who'll just call up and say "I want to put my ad in the **** classifieds please", instead of specifying their actual local paper, is absolutely amazing. We then have to explain exactly how many papers it is that we produce, and that /no/ we can't just tell them which paper to go in if we don't know where they live