If you've worked in a call center for a while you tend to develop a conditioned, reflexive instinct to react silently to EVERYTHING. Any outburst that can be heard by a customer via any of the literally hundreds of hot mics within shouting range can and likely will result in disciplinary action, almost certainly immediate termination if profanity is involved regardless of what caused it. So you get situations of the silent mouthing of words combined with exaggerated facial expressions and gestures to communicate (and in some cases carry on entire conversations) while still on the line with a customer who remains completely oblivious to how the very calm and professional sounding TSR they're talking to is actually in fact covered in ketchup and involved in a silent screaming match with his coworkers. While incidents such as the one Muk wonderfully described and reenacted here are not often a daily occurrence in most call centers, similar things happen often enough that anybody with significant experience in the field will believe every word of it and can probably cite a few similar incidents from our own experience.
that reminds me of something that happened in a police forensics class I took in highschool. We were doing a blood spatter lab where we were supposed to drip fake blood from a syringe while standing walking and running onto a big strip of paper so we could see what the drips look like. Something about the bottles the fake blood was in made it really hard to get it out and my friend ended it getting the blood out the wrong way which resulted in the syringe being pressurized (I dont remember what he did that caused this) but as he was looking at the syringe to see how much fake blood he had it sprayed out the tip over his shoulder and hit the wall near the ceiling. As far as I know the blood splatter is still on the wall over 10 years later.
This story reminds me of how our high school chemistry classroom had a large orange stain on the ceiling above one of the lab tables. The teacher refused to explain how it got there except to the very few students who took his AP Chemistry class, and they were sworn to secrecy with the motivation to keep quiet about it of having something they knew that others didn't. I took that class and the story was really much as one might guess in that, while demonstrating something to the class, the teacher himself had allowed a sealed flask containing an orange liquid to heat too rapidly over a Bunsen burner and it blew the rubber stopper out of the top, followed by a stream of heated liquid that splattered on the ceiling. As this was a rather large flask and a lot of pressure was involved, there was also a lot of orange vapor that filled the room; students were cleared out with no injuries or issues but enough of the vapor went out a couple of open windows that someone living across the street called the fire department to report "orange smoke" coming from inside the school. The teacher got yelled at by the principal then the superintendent and was nearly fired, but it eventually became nothing more than an amusing anecdote and a lesson on paying attention to active processes such as anything involving an open flame during lab exercises. Also the teacher steadfastly denied our requests to replicate the incident (under controlled conditions, of course!) to create a nice, complimentary, blue stain over the other lab table to "balance the aesthetics of the room." Much like many other requests we made (particularly the ones coming from me and/or Charlotte) his reasoning for "why not?" was "I like my job."
Giga chad Ben: Quietly insults boss Continues to perform important business call Goes to bathroom without speaking a word Comes back Ketchup-free Refuses to elaborate
Ben is a man of focus, commitment, and sheer fking will.
If you've worked in a call center for a while you tend to develop a conditioned, reflexive instinct to react silently to EVERYTHING. Any outburst that can be heard by a customer via any of the literally hundreds of hot mics within shouting range can and likely will result in disciplinary action, almost certainly immediate termination if profanity is involved regardless of what caused it. So you get situations of the silent mouthing of words combined with exaggerated facial expressions and gestures to communicate (and in some cases carry on entire conversations) while still on the line with a customer who remains completely oblivious to how the very calm and professional sounding TSR they're talking to is actually in fact covered in ketchup and involved in a silent screaming match with his coworkers. While incidents such as the one Muk wonderfully described and reenacted here are not often a daily occurrence in most call centers, similar things happen often enough that anybody with significant experience in the field will believe every word of it and can probably cite a few similar incidents from our own experience.
that reminds me of something that happened in a police forensics class I took in highschool. We were doing a blood spatter lab where we were supposed to drip fake blood from a syringe while standing walking and running onto a big strip of paper so we could see what the drips look like. Something about the bottles the fake blood was in made it really hard to get it out and my friend ended it getting the blood out the wrong way which resulted in the syringe being pressurized (I dont remember what he did that caused this) but as he was looking at the syringe to see how much fake blood he had it sprayed out the tip over his shoulder and hit the wall near the ceiling. As far as I know the blood splatter is still on the wall over 10 years later.
This story reminds me of how our high school chemistry classroom had a large orange stain on the ceiling above one of the lab tables. The teacher refused to explain how it got there except to the very few students who took his AP Chemistry class, and they were sworn to secrecy with the motivation to keep quiet about it of having something they knew that others didn't. I took that class and the story was really much as one might guess in that, while demonstrating something to the class, the teacher himself had allowed a sealed flask containing an orange liquid to heat too rapidly over a Bunsen burner and it blew the rubber stopper out of the top, followed by a stream of heated liquid that splattered on the ceiling. As this was a rather large flask and a lot of pressure was involved, there was also a lot of orange vapor that filled the room; students were cleared out with no injuries or issues but enough of the vapor went out a couple of open windows that someone living across the street called the fire department to report "orange smoke" coming from inside the school. The teacher got yelled at by the principal then the superintendent and was nearly fired, but it eventually became nothing more than an amusing anecdote and a lesson on paying attention to active processes such as anything involving an open flame during lab exercises.
Also the teacher steadfastly denied our requests to replicate the incident (under controlled conditions, of course!) to create a nice, complimentary, blue stain over the other lab table to "balance the aesthetics of the room." Much like many other requests we made (particularly the ones coming from me and/or Charlotte) his reasoning for "why not?" was "I like my job."
"Red spot on the ceiling"
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That's determination
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oh i remember this one
Giga chad Ben:
Quietly insults boss
Continues to perform important business call
Goes to bathroom without speaking a word
Comes back Ketchup-free
Refuses to elaborate
SEE?! I TOLD YOU!!! EVEN KETCHUP CAN BE AN ASTRONOUT!
That was unfortunate, but at least he was able to still get his job done! The smell was probably annoying the crap out of him. Haha!