Dealing With Stupid People [Tuesday, July 17, 2nd period]

[professor-lyman.livejournal.com]

When the students arrived in the Danger Shop, they found the room decorated as an incredibly soulless phone center.

"Welcome to the help desk!" Josh said, grinning proudly. "People are very stupid over the phone, especially when they know you can't see the expression on their faces. This is also why video conferences aren't as popular as regular conference calls--hiding your eyerolling is easier when, well, they can't see your eyes."

He waved his hands out. "Today you will be manning a help desk. I have handwavily put out posters to let people know that it's open during this class time, so the phones should start ringing any minute now. Your job is to answer the person's question in the most polite way possible without letting them know you think they are completely out of their minds."

"Coffee, muffins and bagels are available, answering their questions correctly is completely optional." Josh smirked. "Have fun."

[OOC: Phone lines are open for townies, students, and faculty members to call in. Josh has conveniently forgotten to specify what kind of help the students would offer. Ask for relationship advice, song requests, technical support, people to vote for or against bills in Congress, just to say hi...go nuts.]

Comments

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"It's my phone man, my phone," Barney was no longer screaming. He started to break down. "It's like that time Not!Moby stole my Get Psyched mix!"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"You can't just buy a new phone and start over?" Gavin asked. It made sense to him. "Get Psyched? Is that a food?"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"I could, but then I wouldn't have pictures of the dinosaur," he said quickly.

"Wait, you don't know what Get Psyched is?! It's only the single greatest mix cd EVER! You should check it out on my blog." Barney wondered about the state of the educational system today when help desk employees didn't know simple things like how to get psyched.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Blog?" More frowning. "That sounds like something you'd throw up. Are you sick, sir? You didn't eat your phone, did you?"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Can I ask you a question?" He didn't wait for a response. "Did you recently emerge from under a rock? Did you ride the short bus to school?" Barney grinned to himself, "Oh yeah, self five." Gavin may have heard the sound of two hands smacking together.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Short bus?" He didn't even know what that was. "As opposed to a long bus?"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Uh, yeah!" Barney rolled his eyes. "You're a fast one, aren't you? Got any sisters?"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I have a sister," he said warily. "Why?"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Rank her hotness one to ten, with 1 being a dog and 10 being a fox," Barney replied, completely serious.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Are you serious?" Gavin asked.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"What about my question didn't seem serious to you?"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"The fact that she's my sister," Gavin snapped.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Oh, she must be a dog, then," Barney sighed. "That's too bad."

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"She's not dog!" Yelling at the phone was bad. "Take it back!"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"You're the one who said she was a dog by refusing to rate her," Barney replied sensibly. "If anyone should take it back, it's your parents."

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Kriffing moron," Gavin growled. "Son of rancor."

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

Barney thought this was exactly what was wrong with telephone help desks. "Speak ENGLISH! I don't know your language!" He shouted, cuz that was how you talked to non-English speakers, right?

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I am!" Gavin shouted at the phone. "You're just too dumb to understand!"

So much for helping.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"How is this a Help Desk? Perhaps a helpless desk," Barney really thought he was funny.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"Go kiss a Gamorrean," Gavin muttered.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Go kiss your ugly sister!"

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[sixstandingby.livejournal.com]

"I'm hanging up on you," Gavin warned.

Re: Man the Help Desk!

[suit-of-awesome.livejournal.com]

"Not if I can hang up on you first!" Barney clicked off the portable phone, pleased to have won that competition, but no closer to actually repairing the pieces of his cell phone.