The Call
She wants to get her gmail (google e-mail) to her blackberry. I wasn't sure if the google offered pop access for her so I was very cautious to tell her something if it wasn't true. So I had to kinda go out of my way to find out if gmail was pop accessible. That took me a little time but found out that it was. So I was trying to get her to set up her email account to integrate it with the blackberry she was having problems but then when I asked if she I could try to do it she said it was alright but that meant that she needed to give me her gmail password. Ok I tried and YEY IT WORKED! Oh man she just totally relaxed after that and started telling me about her friend and how he was so cheap and such. She turned out to be a very nice lady. Joan was her name. After a while she just started to get relaxed and wanting to know about all the features and junk I just told her about it and said if she wanted to know more it's in her manual and stuff she knew that I wanted to leave but she was ok I helped her much and she told me that it was people like me who they need for this to have her feel comfortable get her to calm down. It really made me feel good about myself. The call took an hour I got down at 8:00 I was schedule to leave at 7:30...
Thanksgiving @ The house!
Thanksgiving Pictures
My cousin, Tina is a strange one so the pictures might be very random and junk. So it started out really slow I haven't ate anything all day waiting to eat later when everything got there. MAN I WAS STARVING!! Whatever well kids were all in my room playing video games or using the internet talking to one another I was bored of course no one my age had came over yet. So I was just browsing the Internet until people were around to talk to. I guess Tina and Kevin came and we were comparing each other's phone. At first I thought I had an awesome phone, BUT MAN! My cousins has dope phones too! Man my phone looks weak now! yeah yeah so anyway day was boring just watch tv talking to people and it got to the point to watching MTV's Making the band and looking in the newpaper catelogs for things to get for Christmas and stuff like that. So it was so busy and the men were getting drunk downstairs we hear them "Let's go drinking man" making us laugh a bit. They all didn't leave until like around 3 something and I went to bed at like 4:30 havint o work at 8 the next day... That's my Thanksgiving. I didn't even watch the Charlie Brown Thanksgiving this year... oh well.
New Yorkers are MEAN! You know what I'm saying?
Thanks for calling Sprint together with Nextel Blackberry support my name is Otis, may I have your first and last name please?
MY God! Rita Watson!
Ok and your blackberry phone number?
I already told you this! It's 152-555-2929! What else do you want MY BLOOD?
Uhh No Just your blackberry model type
7520! I already TOLD YOU!
Uhh were you transfered to me or...(Thinking she might have gave this info to another Tier and having to repeat herself)
No, It's just everytime I call you I have to give this information! Isn't there a way that it would come up for you so you don't have to ask all the time?
Sorry but we have to make a different ticket every call
Well that system is fucked up!
I'm sorry i can't do anything about that... and can I have the state you are currently at?
NEW YORK!!
(You know what I'm saying?!)
She was soo mean I didn't know what to do. I helped her with her problem though so whatever. She wasn't even greatful damn new yorkers! You know what I'm saying? Yeah so talking to people on the phone isn't the greatest thing especially when you really don't know much about what you are trying to fix for them. At times they already know what's up more than you they just don't have the ability to do it. You know what I'm saying? Oh well I'll get the hang of it, they should just give us all blackberries to know it better even if it was for like a month or something that would be great! You know what I'm saying? Anyway I'm done talking so Thanks for calling sprint!
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On the phones now!
Wednesday it was paired the first couple hours and then they thought that we can go solo on the calls. I was so scared I could hardly get the greeting out correctly. I had some calls that would take like an hour and a half because I really didn't know what to do with them and had wave some of the people down to help me out a little. I think our training sucks because most of the problems I was having is finding what I needed to help them. We are suppose to use this website thingy in our server and it was soooo hard to navigate through it I mean the search engine you have to be so damn procise. like if you were looking for (adding blackberry data plan) you can't say plan data or blackberry data. You have to enter exactly blackberry date plan. It's ridiculous stupid. I had this call that they wanted to remove the blackberry email and data plan out of their blackberry and we're not able to do that because it's a blackberry and it's required to have a data plan but seriously why would you buy a blackberry without having the ability to email and use the browser?! They were very upset and I had to get a SME to tell them off. Finally they gave in and paid for the 34.99 plan. Whatever! Anyway it's very difficult and I was actually stressing trying to get them all working again.
Last day of training!
We all had to go to the Cafeteria they had at EDS for our Graduation Ceremony haha it's so funny but whatever! They had a lot of people involved in this group and EDS is very proud to have this Sprint/Nextel thing going on for them so that's why they're making such a big deal for us. So we had a ceremony and we walked through the people and gave them fives like an NBA lineup thingy. People were just walking through them like they're embarassed or something whatever. We were forever clapping until everyone was called my hands were really red by the end of that. When they called my name I didn't even hear through all the clapping. Anyway I ran through them giving them lows not high fives and accepted my "diploma" for passing the training course.
OOOOOH Great thing happened OH YES!! There was an award at the end for most knowledgeable and YES! Joe (the guy I REALLY REALLY HATE because he thinks he knows EVERYTHING!) Didn't get the award!! HAHAHAHHA it was this asian dude that got it for our class! HAHAH oh man if you saw the face he had! HAHAHAH oh it felt soooooooooooo good!! I think I might be related to him because his last name is Cam. I'm related to many asian people I don't even know most of them. So after the cake and ice cream stuff I sat back at my table and emailed Sonny and junk and talked to my fellow co-workers via instant messaging. We started to use our phones we have to talk but the people told us we had to get off of them so that didn't work. Ok so I think I'm done... Tomorrow is going to suck I don't think any of us is prepared for the calls we're going to have.
It's Tuesday so far sucky!
Yeah what else oh on Monday we had to take this damn stupid ass test that was suppose to teach us how to be a good worker and help stop the turnover rate or soemthing. I don't know but we had to get an amount right and all this stuff. I felt so STUPID! I had to go over the exercises like 3 times each while almost everyone was almost done then when we did our test part I took it like 4 times! and it sucked because 3 times I had like 17/30 and you had to get 18! I'm like OH COME ON! Yeah I felt really stupid that day. I don't know how we are going to be ready to take calls next week because we have not learn a lot of anything and nothing is going right in the class there should be a wait on us and another training week for us because it is just not going right!
Update: Wrote this before I read Olivia's comment on my previous post... Yeah I think I will stick it out It's something I can relate more to than working at the library.
Training Day 4
During lunch I ate at their cafeteria and ate with some of the people in class man I felt young! It was just weird so I left the table as early and went back to my desk and listen to my ipod. Working there isn't so great and Sarah said there's opening at the downtown Library I would want to leave but it's like I just started and they are losing money if I left for the training and the stuff like that, I don't know they were explaining it to us. Well Nothing fun happened sorry to waste your time reading this.
Training Day 2
I forgot to bring this up when I went to the restroom today the guy using the urinal started farting like crazy! I washed my hands real quick and got the hell out of there!