Elevator music is good January 26, 2012
Posted by peileppe in call-centre, comics, Making comics.Tags: air conditioning, call center, call-centre, comics, gimp, grinder
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Here’s Greg offering a little trick – this follow his last trouble with drinking too much tea during the day
Greg has a problem with the air conditioning, because of that he’s constantly wearing hot clothes – therefor he has to hydrate a lot more.
Anyway, his little trick won’t work if the calls are monitored, and could put Greg in a very tight spot during the next review.
But while he hasn’t be caught …
There was Barbara’s little trick a while ago, there is going to be more (can’t wait for Bob’s bag of tricks)
I remember once a colleague doing this, and getting back to the customer – to her surprise he said
“Can you put me back on hold, the music is really nice!”
She didn’t need to be asked twice…
Assume the positron January 20, 2012
Posted by peileppe in call-centre, comics.Tags: call-centre, character, comics, dog-eat-dog, facebook, gimp, grinder, Making comics, tier2, who is the boss
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New Episode (in color) ; it’s a revivification of the Episode 001 – but with a twist, because the Boss is played by the irreverencious Bob Prezkovic. The idea behind this strip is : “Doesn’t matter who is the boss, the position assumes that he has to play the bad guy”.
But no worry : This isn’t a real change in the comics hierarchy, Martin Bradford is still around, and Bob a tier2 – it’s just Jim Bishop having a bad dream in technicolor!
Don’t forget to join the “Call-Centre Grinder” facebook page
Robbing from the tier2 and giving to the tier1 January 12, 2012
Posted by peileppe in call-centre, comics, interlude.Tags: call center, call-centre, character, facebook, fanart, grinder, robin hood, rpg
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Last time it was Bob as an archer – now it’s Barbara O’Reilly and Jim Bishop running in the woods playing Robin hood.
I’m currently focusing on painting, and therefor I put aside the call-center comics, I also started a facebook fanpage (and you’re all welcome to join).
Occupy Grinder November 30, 2011
Posted by peileppe in call-centre, Making comics.Tags: call-centre, character, comics, gimp, grinder, perspective
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The Grinder Saga is on track again, the call-center management always trying to boost the employee’s productivity ; have found after analyzing statistics intensively, the culprit – toilet breaks are too long.
Restrictions have to be made, budget allocated, the management decision is to introduce soon “the productivity seats” (more information on the Grinder facebook page) – but the employees aren’t seeing this changes as beneficial as the management would.
After trying to break the employees reluctance by offering them a choice in the color of their new seats, some Tier2 agents (who would like to be kept anonymous) are starting to organize after a very long talk in the cafeteria, where the sentence “we can’t tolerate to be considered as cattle any longer” was used as a slogan — now more agents have joined a movement labelled as “Occupy Grinder“.
