Work is F.U.N.! (tm)

Or, to expand the acronym, Fucking Unbelievable Nonsense.

The phones are STILL all screwed up. So no customer service. And the orders were getting to the stores in a spotty fashion it seemed. So lots of complains there. And big thunderstorms literally blowing up one or two stores. More complains. And no customer service, I believe I mentioned that. Who got the crap end of the stick?

If you said the operators, who don't control the phones, nor the weather, give yourself a pat on the back.

F.U.N.

Giant Robots. We're F.U.N. too!

So that was comedy...

When you're a gigantic, world swallowing, opposition crushing souled megacorporation, whose very existance is predicated upon the theory that any person, anywhere, should be able to pick up a 100-year-old device known as a 'telephone', dial an easy-to-remember number, and be rewarded with hot, fresh foodstuffs delivered to their door, it would make sense then, that one would keep the phone system in as perfect a working order as one could; and because nothing is perfect, one would have several levels of contingency plans in place, should the unthinkable happen.

Or, if you're Pizza Hut, you pretty much throw your hands up in the air and go 'Eh, whatre you gonna do?'

I won't complain much though...getting paid for two hours of reading Harry Potter beats a stick in the teeth any day.

Giant Robots. With contingency plans, AND a secure bundle.

So, I'm a trend whore.

And downloaded and installed OpenDock today. Nifty program, I must admit, even if it's a bit too 'Aqua-like' in tendancies...but at last I have a Dock again! Now if only LiteStep was actually user-friendly now, and I could have my precious, precious background menus....

Giant Robots rarely have transparency sliders. But when we do, we rock!

Thoughts from the Pizza Wars

So here was a fun one tonight. Guy (sounded like a kid, but whatever) calls up, wants a pizza, small. No problem. Wants it made half and half. No problem. Wants half with pepperoni. No problem. Wants that half with extra sauce. Problem.

See...sauce is a liquid. And like all liquids, it's not really going to like being slanty, which is what will happen if you put more of it on one side of the pizza than the other. It'll want to move. It'll especially want to move when you heat it up...say, to several hundred degrees Celcius. I just don't think it's gonna happen.

So I told the guy so, explaining that, while I certainly could ask the store to put extra sauce only on half of the pizza, I certainly couldn't guarentee it. And after some repetition of this key point, the guys tells me that, 'Fine, I'll just try another pizza place.'

Er? Has Panago mastered some art of slanty sauce that Pizza Hut still lacks?

Giant Robots like to be flat too.

My newfound dream

A movie, staring Will Wheaton as a young actor trying to escape the rigors of his child-actor stigma, who escapes to Canada to work as a customer-service represenative for SaskTel.

"Fields of Wheaton"

Betcha the Canadian Film Board would give me 50,000 to make it....either that, or "Bend it like Doug".

Giant Robots aren't funny at midnight on Sundays.

You know you've hit bottom at work when...

...a customer calls, asking if you would put semen on a pizza. When you (hopefully) reply in the negative, he asks why then, is there indeed semen on his pizza?

Other than that, a pretty good night.

Giant Robots don't spooge, on pizza, or otherwise.

Nothing much really...

Nothing much terribly profound or interesting to talk about tonight. Mainly that the mental cleansing that I got from hanging out with good friends for the past few days has done my body more good than sleep ever could...my stress levels are at new lows for the past few months, and that's a good thing. Course, after another weekend at the call center, I'm sure they'll be right back up there again...

I always think of things to talk about while I'm there, but never write them down to write them down. I should do that.

And I beat Super Robot Wars Compact 3 tonight! But Mazinkaizer is sad, because not a single Super Robot was involved in the final battle...(they really suck in that version of the game).

Giant Robots n'est parle pas le francais.

If you ordered pizza tonight...

...I'm sorry.

Sorry that you waited half an hour listening to the most annoying ad in the world.
Sorry that the store closed while you were listening to the above.
Sorry that the store ran out of ingredients.
Sorry that we don't give you credit for either of the above.

I'm sorry that I rushed through your order, though I was polite about it.
I'm sorry that there were 100 people in line behind you, so that I had to rush.

I'm sorry that my idiot bosses decided it would be just fine to have 10 people handling calls for two provinces on the night before Canada Day.
I'm sorry that I work for them.

Giant Robots. We're sorry.