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Twilight has a minor complaint. So she decides to phone the company responsible, thinking it'll be a relatively easy process...
You can tell she's never done this sort of thing before.
Set around the start of Season Six.
Featured from 6-7th December 2023. Indeed.
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I LOVE THIS
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So do I. I am immensely proud of it. Even if it’s not my most popular work on here, it’s my most favourite one-shot I've written in a while.
Letting you know
Someone once spent ELEVEN DAYS on hold for a call
Just saying
Wow
"Your call is very imporant to us"
3 DAYS LATER
Damn. And I thought scammers giving scam calls were punchable.
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In a way, I wish I'd have been kept waiting for 11 days. At least I'd have had a break from the bullsh*t.
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All of us probably sometimes wish we could revenge on these patronising, unhelpful, irritating call-people. Well, Twilight has the motivation AND the means to do just that. My private fantasy brought to life? Never!
Well, the muzak ones you at least know that you haven't been disconnected. The silent ones are worse.
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True
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But i do remember that there are humans on the other side
They may be having a bad day
This is definitely one of the coping methods of all time. Reminds me of Kitboga's recent scambait videos.
Call center losers should be dealt with exactly like those jackass self-fulfilling rhyming fortune tellers.
BRUTALLY.
If only....
Life ain't fair.
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That's the same excuse I hear when people defend telemarketers. And I say this. No. These things are not human. No. They do not deserve anything nice.
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I disagree
Sometimes there is a reason for why they do it
Not always good but a reason
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Uhhh no?
I dont want violence!
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Yeah. They're scumbags with no redeeming qualities. Maybe not all of them. But those who defend their existence are a very small minority compared to most I think.
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Well call me a minority then
Because im not gonna harm them
Yes i do not like em but i aint harming them
Telemarketers hate their job too. Their being ordered to do what they do and be unhelpful. The corporation that controls whether they pay rent and eat want customers to give up. So the workers need to do facilitate that.
It's either be useless and make people upset or lose your job, and you probably can't get another job after being fired and oops homeless now.
Plus alot of telemarketers actually do help. It's the automated voice system that's evil and that's not their fault at all.
Hate the company not the worker
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... Pardon?
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It'd be nice if they didn't spread their 'bad day' vibes onto me, thanx.
They get paid to a job (not very well, as seems to be the case a lot of the time) so perhaps they should leave their personal life at home if that's the case.
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Darn. I could've just saved time writing this story, and carved that three word adage into rock with fifty-foot high letters and it would've gotten the point across just as well. But hang on... that would've taken even longer, so...
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Let's take a poll... *Gets pelted with rotten vegetables and bricks* yep guess you're right.
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As soon as I have a productive encounter with one, I'll come back and agree with you and maybe we can share some common ground.
Until that great day arrives though, I can go by my personal experiences which have been total...
so far. Sorry.
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When you're on hold. After several minutes of silence, you have to wonder "Is anyone still there?"
These days, they mostly don't do that anymore.
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True i wish that is the case
But i guess sometimes people just wanna watch the world burn
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Just a joke. You said the 'silent' ones are the worse, and I was pretending I was getting one from you. Unless you knew that already...
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In Roughing It Mark Twain said something to the effect "If you don't tell people you're being sarcastic, they'll never figure it out." (He spent years working as a reporter & columnist. )
Recorded reading this for the audiobook version to come soon.
How ironic that I also had a bad call center experience today.
I felt like I was able to channel some of that frustration in my voice.
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As Carrie Fisher once stated so accurately (although, I'm pretty sure she was talking about something else) 'turn your broken heart, into art'. If your undoubted suffering helps to emphasise Twilight's suffering at the hooves of a Class A jerkface... then maybe it was kismet. Destiny. A higher force telling you things were Meant To Be This Way. Wow...
I look forward to listening to your production in all it's high-budget glory, but as a tightwad none-subscriber it seems I'll have to wait a while longer (any 'advance preview privileges' for the original authors of your audio dramas? Didn't think so.)
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Not really the reaction I expected, I guess you live up to your name. I checked my DMs, to make sure I did ask you for permission.
I wouldn't say what I do is 'High Budget'. I put the effort in with the tools I have. I spend more to sustain this as a hobby then I I've ever made in return, still hoping to break even 3 years later. Of course as the author, you will get to hear it, as soon as possible. But I haven't finished making it yet. I still have to do the editing to make it more then just a live, raw, unpolished reading. I plan to do that today or tomorrow, just before my paid access to the Artlist.io, music and SFX assets expires. Can't afford to resume my subscription to them until the next fortnite.
I wanted to ask you also, what the songs are that you are referencing in the fic? So that I can see if I can maybe re-record those parts, singing it correctly.
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Hi again. Don't worry, it's all in fun and I am very pleased you considered my story good enough to read for your channel. Of course, I think that about everything I write... but others are entitled to disagree.
I watched your trailer and was impressed at the amount of effort you put into that alone, so I can't wait to see what you have planned for the fic. Hope it all goes smoothly, and there are so unintended hiccups. HIC! HiC HIC!!!! Oops.
The songs I spoofed in the text are 'Show Me The Meaning Of Being Lonely' by The Backstreet Boys (who've been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons) and 'Step By Steps' by New Kids On The Block (They've kept their nose clean, as far as I'm aware. Good lads!)
Probably showing my age a bit with those obscure references to 90's pop, but I'm not yet 40... honest! I'll speak to you again later, just gotta grab my pipe & slippers and do my daily workout... ouch, my aching back! It's a good job writing is such a sedentary pursuit...
P.S Just out of interest, what reaction were you expecting?
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Thanks, dude. The world shall know my genius... which will make it... perfect for the taking. HAHAHAHA *burp*