creepy call center calls

Calgary, Alberta
June 28, 2011 3:49am CST
My job is to listen to the calls of customer service representatives in a callcenter, My current account is for a certain airlines. People cancel their flights,People ordering flights reservations and people who complains and whines are the usual customers. I use to be one of the people who receive calls.... Now I just listen....I will share some of the creepiestcalls I heard... Not the exact transcript though.... I put some alterations and didnt include some for sake of privacy and I dont want to get fired..... ----- Female agent: Thank you for calling_____,This is Mary, how may I help you? Customer: I would like to book a flight from Ontario to LA for 2, It would be for me and my wife, Economy class only.(line is kinda static) Female Agent: please kindly give me you name please? Customer: I'm____________ and my wife's name is______ (and some usual flight reservation talk) ~Minutes later~ Female Agent: there are 3 available flights for the route Ontario to LA, 7:00 am to .....blah blah Customer: I would like to have the earliest flight(3 gun shot)customer screams. ---- (the agent from that call didnt know if its a prank call or if real but listening to that call shocks me.) ------- Female Customer: I would like to cancel a flight with my dad. Male Agent: may I know the reason for the cancellation? Female Customer: He died in a heart attack hours ago. Me while listening: --------- Those calls freaks me out until now.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
28 Jun 11
Hi Capt. I would have called the law right then when I heard the shots had I been the agent. Hope the guy wasn't killed while the agent was on the phone.
• Calgary, Alberta
28 Jun 11
It was years ago and we actually tried to report the incident years ago. the management tried to hide things, we never get to know.
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@free_man (7330)
• United States
29 Jun 11
Hi Capt. Hope that no one was hurt by that shooting. It would have drove me nuts not knowing. If it had been me I would have reported it myself for the safety of anyone and everyone.
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• Calgary, Alberta
29 Jun 11
Its been years since that call but I still have no idea what really happened.
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@cream97 (29087)
• United States
11 Sep 11
Hi, CaptAlbertWhisker. If I was on the other end of the phone, this call would have made me creep out too! When you hear calls that are creepy, do you notify your boss about what you have heard? I think that these calls should not be quickly passed up as a silly prank. It could very well be actually real and true.
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@chiwasaki (4694)
• Philippines
12 Jul 11
That is indeed a creepy call. I previously work in an airline account that handles domestic US and international flights. One of the creepiest call I have is a customer who wants to book a flight from LAX to Hawaii. After a few conversation, he started asking if I know Boracay. Then the caller starts using obscene Tagalog words. My team lead is actually listening to my call during that time and ask me have a closing spiel and end the call. I just found out that that specific customer calls us mostly once or twice a day and basically doing the same thing all over again.
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• Calgary, Alberta
5 Aug 11
Perverted callers always attacks female agents, this industry is really stressful it makes me sick literally with stress, i got my appendix removed and a cyst in my spleen. this job will kill me.
@xcite82 (28)
• Philippines
29 Jun 11
Hi! We have the same experience when I was working in a call center industry. I, myself experience the same thing but the customer on the other line can't hold their laughs, so mine is a prank call. But your story is kinda serious and it seems a real one. It's very scary especially you're the last person whom the customer talked to. Creepy..
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• Calgary, Alberta
29 Jun 11
Those Prank callers , they have no life. I heard in another call center there is a case where the agent talks to a client with stroke attack in the middle of the call. can you make some sort of a reenactment of the call?
• Philippines
29 Jun 11
That's creepy. I myself is working on a call center industry for nearly 5 years now. And thank God I have not experienced those creepy side of stories yet. I never wish to encounter one though. It seems that those situations are unavoidable sometimes. I'm working for a broadband account offshore.
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• Calgary, Alberta
29 Jun 11
By far in my 7 years I only encountered 5 creepy calls, those two are the ones I shared by far. All along I thought irate callers and prank calls are the worst,
@enigma13 (372)
• Philippines
31 Jul 11
I worked as a collections agent way back 2008. Most of the time, we only get answering machines or people just hang up on us because they know we are debt collectors. One night, I was on the middle of my ship and a call came in. The client's first name was Constance. I was "awakened" by the response because the voice on the other line was really creepy. It was the voice of a really old woman who sounded like she was wheezing. I recited the usual intro but there was no response. All I heard were quiet sobs and wheezing on the other line. I said hello a couple of times to confirm if she was still listening. And her response totally freaked me out. She said, "Yes... HELP ME...", while sobbing and wheezing. I immediately called my supervisor who is notorious for being firm and assertive with customers. We checked the profile and it turned out that Constance was 98 years old. My manager spoke to her and after a few exchanges he was saying, "Ma'am, are you okay?". He looked as freaked out as I was. He waited for a couple of minutes more and courteously ended the conversation with Constance . We never got a clear response from her. I can't forget her voice. It still gives me the creeps until now.
• Calgary, Alberta
5 Aug 11
that was disturbing, she must be having a heart attack or something, did you get an update what really happened to her or is your company like mine, hiding information to such influence.
@jaiho2009 (39142)
• Philippines
28 Jun 11
hello capt, That was really creepy eh I haven't encountered such calls...and thanks,or else I will have more sleepless days
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• Calgary, Alberta
28 Jun 11
the gunshot call gave me sleepless days,Its really a traumatic experience.
• United States
28 Jun 11
I was a Customer Service Rep for a satellite company when I used to get creepy, dirty old man calls. Upon answering the phone, a heavy-breathing man would slyly tell me the channel of the pay-per-view movie he wanted to order. Of course, I would have to say the title of the movie out loud to confirm I had the order correct. Let me just say, he was not ordering Mary Poppins.
• Calgary, Alberta
28 Jun 11
I have a feeling what he ordered can be only watched by people 18 years of age and Above. there is A female agent here who felt molested in phone by a perv too. the client is moaning,talking dirty ans asks her the color of her underwear.