cows
i used to work for a mobile fone company as a customer service advisor..

most days were quite eventful one way or another, with strange people ringing up with their phone queries, a couple as below:

customer: i cant afford my mobile fone
me: would u like me to take a look at your tariff for you?
customer: no its the fone thats expensive!!
me: i dont understand?
Customer: i've had to replace the battery 3 times since i've had it!
me: that doesnt sound good, you've only had it a month, have you been charging it properly?
customer: charging it????
me: yes it came with a battery charger??
customer: oh crap! (hangs up fone!)
** turns out customer had been replacing the battery instead of charging it! - doh!!! **

2nd customer(with very thick northern accent):
customer: I got kicked by a cow
me: excuse me? sorry?
customer: i was kicked by cow, now i need new fone!
me: "laughing"
customer: seriously- i got kicked by cow, fone was in my pocket, fone is broke!

hehe, still laugh at that one!
(piggietress, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 16:55, 13 replies)

You worked as a telecommunications customer service advisor..
and you spell phone as fone? What???
( The magic of chutney Shakes it like an Instagram filter!, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:17, closed)

Perhaps...
...this poster worked for Vodafone?
(eesnahk, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:30, closed)

Indeed
Perhaps this reveals a little something about the source of some problems encountered by people using the 'fones'.
(louveciennes , Volvospotter, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:34, closed)

and make up stories about people replacing batteries rather than charging them, too
tut tut. youth of today, etc.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:40, closed)

That first story
Has been on these boards before, and has not been posted by you.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Mon 3 Aug 2009, 17:58, closed)

I feel a sudden sense of
deja Shit.
(powervator and NONE SHALL PASS, Mon 3 Aug 2009, 19:01, closed)

Phone.
With a 'ph'.

It's in the sodding question.
(Vulpine or something, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 1:30, closed)

fone
i did post this story on here before ages ago under a different question of the week, and yes did work at vodafone.

and the stories are 100% true!! -i didnt make anything up!!
(piggietress, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 9:24, closed)

right.
except that spare mobile batteries are sold discharged, so that kind of scuppers the first story.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 10:51, closed)

nope
actually the customer kept on ordering batteries from us, and we kept on sending them out

... until i realised what was going on!

THIS IS TRUE - accept it!!!!
(piggietress, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:31, closed)

we don't believe you
ACCEPT IT!!!
(likeajackhammer, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 11:32, closed)

GIVE US MADDIE BACK
:(
(Freddles, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 12:54, closed)

Oh, look...
Your Shift key isn't broken after all.

I'm still undecided about your ' key though.
(Vice Admiral Sir Charles Cockbrush KCB MBE DSO, who is finding it increasingly difficult to log into b3ta.com wants to duck your aunt and kick your puppy, Tue 4 Aug 2009, 14:36, closed)