Thursday, April 2, 2009

The sky is falling...

The sky is falling, the sky is falling... some would have you believe.

I got a call from a customer needing to reorder thread today. She also asked if we could rush shipping and I told her it would cost extra. She didn't think she should have to pay the extra because it's not her fault that they need to rush shipping... upon further questioning, it turns out that she would have called to reorder yesterday, but she would have had to use her computer and the Internet and then her computer would have crashed due to the virus going around on April Fool's day.

Fool's day indeed. Seriously lady? Unfortunately, ma'am, you're going to have to pay for the rush shipping. We only cover shipping for acts of God. Not acts of sheer stupidity.

Before you ask...yes, she said it could be worse than Y2K. I would hope so, since Y2K passed without much incident. I don't know where she's getting her information. But I told her I understood her frustration and that we're all making sacrifices in this economy and with the war on terror.

Fool's day...indeed.

6 comments:

Tami said...

What an idiot! You probably had to be nice and polite because she was a customer. I'm sure that was very frustrating.

Elise said...

What a dumbass!

Rae said...

Hay, cut her some slack, this virus was reported on our TV news. They were warning us to be on the watch for it although they did not specify what it was---well you know how the news is.

Bryan said...

Grandma's right! It was all over the news. It's called the Conficker virus. It has the ability to capture every password you enter. Including the bank sites. It's on at least 10 million computers and had the date of April first embedded in it. You don't know you have it. It just sits there waiting for the creator of the virus to tell it what to do and when.

Once again the media blew this all out of proportion. The sky is falling, the sky is falling!!! It may be a deadly virus someday. But did it need to be on every newscast? I think not.

(Quick money making opportunity. Microsoft is offering a $250,000 reward for anyone offering information that leads to the arrest of the creator of the virus.)

So I blame the media for her paranoia. But I blame her even more for the expectation that someone else should pay that.

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Barbie Smith said...

hehehe! Idiot!!!