What's the most whack customer description???

**atwageman** · 09-27-2014

Local gay community center places a call for service. Demands that only a gay tech be sent. Boss sends out an email asking which one of us is gonna be gay for a couple of hours to get the call taken care of.

**NeoMatrix** · 09-27-2014

Originally Posted by atwageman

Local gay community center places a call for service. Demands that only a gay tech be sent. Boss sends out an email asking which one of us is gonna be gay for a couple of hours to get the call taken care of.

How many employees suddenly called in sick or excercised their retirement/redundancy payout options?

**blackcat4866** · 09-27-2014

That's so unfair and prejudicial. The next thing you know the Synagogs will all want Jewish techs, and, and the Evangelicals will want evangelical techs.

I must say though, that we had a battered women's shelter that requested a female tech. Since we didn't have one, I got elected (it was my territory). I got a pretty unusual reaction. All the women looked at me like I was the Boston strangler, or at the very least a sex offender.

So a straight tech is just unable to fix the problem? Or they need more than just copier repair? I'm offended. =^..^=

**atwageman** · 09-27-2014

Blackcat I'd told them I'll take a sandwich as payment.

**Akitu** · 09-29-2014

Originally Posted by blackcat4866

I must say though, that we had a battered women's shelter that requested a female tech. Since we didn't have one, I got elected (it was my territory). I got a pretty unusual reaction. All the women looked at me like I was the Boston strangler, or at the very least a sex offender.

Similar situation here. One of my clients is a crisis shelter, if I don't call and arrange to have a visit beforehand I'm treated as though I personally beat every single woman in there. It would be nice if people could draw the line between professionalism and paranoia, but there are policies in place for a reason in most cases...

**KapeKopyTek** · 09-29-2014

#warontechs

**emujo** · 09-29-2014

Originally Posted by blackcat4866

That's so unfair and prejudicial. The next thing you know the Synagogs will all want Jewish techs, and, and the Evangelicals will want evangelical techs.

I must say though, that we had a battered women's shelter that requested a female tech. Since we didn't have one, I got elected (it was my territory). I got a pretty unusual reaction. All the women looked at me like I was the Boston strangler, or at the very least a sex offender.

So a straight tech is just unable to fix the problem? Or they need more than just copier repair? I'm offended. =^..^=

For us, the women's shelters address is blocked, you have to call 1st just to get the address, then they match your face to the battered women's husbands/boyfriends mug shots. BTW what do you say to a woman with 2 black eyes? Nothing, you've already told her twice...Don't hate me, probably should go in the horrible joke thread. Emujo

**Akitu** · 09-29-2014

Originally Posted by emujo

For us, the women's shelters address is blocked, you have to call 1st just to get the address, then they match your face to the battered women's husbands/boyfriends mug shots. BTW what do you say to a woman with 2 black eyes? Nothing, you've already told her twice...Don't hate me, probably should go in the horrible joke thread. Emujo

Wow. I wouldn't have expected them to go that far with the picture comparison. I guess that would depend on how large the facility is and how many people they're supporting. You'd think they would expect to see you in a company uniform in a vehicle plastered in office logos WITH the mug shot if they're going to that level of extremism. How thrilled are you with the fact they have to keep your image on file?

**MrB** · 09-29-2014

"Each morning, my e-copy scan station PC is always switch off, but we always leave it on"
"hummmmmmmmm... Okay"

On Arrival, the cleaner had unplugged the ecopy PC and plugged in her hoover.
"There is you're fault, Please sign my chargeable pad Thank You"

**Debs1964** · 09-29-2014

Originally Posted by blackcat4866

That's so unfair and prejudicial. The next thing you know the Synagogs will all want Jewish techs, and, and the Evangelicals will want evangelical techs.

I must say though, that we had a battered women's shelter that requested a female tech. Since we didn't have one, I got elected (it was my territory). I got a pretty unusual reaction. All the women looked at me like I was the Boston strangler, or at the very least a sex offender.

So a straight tech is just unable to fix the problem? Or they need more than just copier repair? I'm offended. =^..^=

When I was working for Xerox we had a women's shelter in my area, pretty lucky for them, at that time I was the only female tech working for Xerox in the entire UK, I think I only went there once, I wonder what happened for all other service calls.

i also, once went to a private house to fix a copier for a gay guy, my problem wasn't that he was gay, but that he was a woman hater, he was really abusive, threw me out and told me that 'people like me' shouldn't have jobs! I refused to ever go there again