High Jinx - Cardboard in the phone
Now you may or may not see in which direction this particular
"prank" is going.
The foolish person or "less experienced
prankster" may well put something in the ear piece of the phone.
Whenever that person picks up their phone they wont be able to
hear the other person.
Now this is funny to a degree but this prank will
last a very short amount of time. The person soon reports their
phone as faulty and gets a new one. Prank over and as the prank
was never revealed it really wasn't that funny.
I had this done to me, it was explained to me
afterwards and although I laughed it really didn't work.
Now let us take this to a new level.
Imagine if the technician in question was blissfully unaware
there was anything wrong with their phone and just assumed that
they had the bad luck of having a whole strong of "deaf
customers" on the phone to them - a lot funnier I'm sure you'll
agree.
So what we do is carefully unscrew the
mouth-piece of the phone and insert a piece of card here. After
carefully replacing the mouth piece we sit back and wait for
that particular technicians phone to ring, for there to be a
customer on the end of the phone and for the fun to begin!
This particular prank was played on a friend of
mine and not actually by me, in fact I do not know who actually
did it although "Dan" from the
Birthday Treatment story is a very likely suspect.
Once word had got around both the technical support and
engineering departments it was just a matter of time waiting. We
would make ourselves scarce in the department so that the next
call from a customer would go to him. We could then all stand in
the next office and listen - in fact you could really stand
anywhere in the building and hear what was going on.
A typical conversation would go something like
this (Bold is various degrees of shouting):
"Hello Technical Support, How can I help?"
"Technical Support, How can I help?"
"Yes this is technical support, how can I help?"
Some time passes where every sentence is repeated at least twice and eventually has to be shouted
"Type Dir and then press Enter"
"Dir and press Enter"
"D I R AND THEN PRESS ENTER"
This kind of conversation would of course take
three times as long as it should do. Once finished on the phone
the innocent technician would come next door to a full and
laughing engineering department and mutter the words:
"Bloody deaf customers, why do I always get them?"
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