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Edited on Thu Jun-15-06 08:43 PM by Skip Intro
I work in a cell phone store, and, as I'm sure most know, when you sign up for service, with a contract, your credit is considered by the service provider to determine whether there'll be a deposit required.
So I'm talking to this customer, who just thinks he's gonna wheel and deal himself into some super-special, just-for-him deal, and other customers are walking in.
We finally pick out a phone - a camera phone that I'm supposed to sell for a few bucks but I sell to him for only $10, and then throw in a car charger for free. Not a bad deal on equipment. This is an add-on line to a current line he has. He then asks me how much it'd be for a new phone for him. I tell him full price. He says, "I told you I have a 770 Beacon core." I'm like, yeah...and, I'll sell you a phone at my cost, but I'm not going to lose money on the deal. He says, "alright, let's go ahead and get this over then, I'll give that business to someone else." He doesn't understand how it works, and his attitude is just about to piss me off.
So we hook up the line, I go over the contract with him, which includes a $20 activation fee (charged by the service provider, not me) and he balks, "I ain't never paid no activation fees and I ain't going to. I've got a 770 Beacon score. That Lincoln Towne Car outside is paid for, I've got $100,000 worth of credit cards in my back pocket. I've got credit as good as the president." (to which I reply, after a pause, "no comment") He continues, "I ain't somebody that just walked in off the street. That 770 Beacon score is supposed to mean something. Special perks...."
He's saying this stuff loudly, and, pardon me for assuming (as it turns out, correctly), the people waiting for me to finish with him were almost surely, like myself, not of his credit level. And he's talking like he should get someting more than "them" because he's got some fucking number attached to his name.
I replied that I treat everyone special, and I'd make a call tomorrow to see if I can get his activation fee waived. "I'll bring the phone back if you don't."
"I'm going to try to get everyone's fee's waived today" I say. You can call me tomorrow to see if I was able to do that.
"I will," he says, glaring at me for not rolling out some red carpet, especially reserved for him, out the door, dragging his ego behind him.
I wanted so badly to say to him, "you don't matter one iota more than anyone else, you shallow, self-absorbed fuck."
uuuuuuurrrrrrrrrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhh!
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