Digital Ink on Paper

Color Blind

// January 21st, 2010 // Blog-a-holic, Funnies

It’s another day at work. “Thank you for calling Sprint together with Nextel, this is Cara. How can I help you?” While saying the same old spiel, I heard myself and the rest of the team help people with their bills, fix mobile phones, and try to sell more stuff to those lucky callers until I heard one of us make an offer.

“By the way, ma’am, did you know that you could get a free phone today?”

Oh yes, if he can make that successful sale the lucky guy gets an extra thousand pesos on his paycheck. But wait, there’s more.

“Yes, that’s true! In fact, if you order it today, I can even give you additional 100 free text messages and a month of free mobile internet. An x dollar value absolutely free.” More upselling. “Okay, so you want a black flip phone? I apologize ma’am but the black ones went out of stock last week. The only colors available at the moment are brown and pink.”

Pause. Customer must be insisting on a black phone. “Actually the brown one is so brown it’s almost black.”

Blag. I fell off my chair.