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On the Phone - Hold Music

  • 20-01-2012 04:12PM
    #1
    DaveNoCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,780 ✭✭✭


    Right, so I do be making alot of calls for work and have been placed on hold more than enough times.

    Usually it's that cheap recorded sh!t played on a loop, sometimes it's a radio station playing. Either way it can be annoying! But all those cheap looped recordings have been topped as of today.

    I just spent the better part of a 20 minute phone call on hold to a particular business. No recordings, no radion station, just this really really annoying 'bing' noise repeated every 10 seconds... it really took the f*ckin' biscuit!!

    Rant over :cool:


Comments

  • #2
    mikom
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,391 ✭✭✭✭mikom


    DaveNoCheese wrote: »
    Right, so I do be making alot of calls for work and have been placed on hold more than enough times.


    do be, do be, dooooo, da, da, da, da, da,


  • #3
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    i hate it when people use a radio station but the system has such a bad reception of it that it ends up being whitenoise and static with about 2 seconds of audio on a loop


  • #4
    bonerjams03
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 393 ✭✭bonerjams03


    Better than Meteor:

    deep inside I hope you feel it too... Do dadadadadada....


  • #5
    FatherLen
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,808 ✭✭✭FatherLen


    i like it when its a song i like.


  • #6
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    Make your own music while you wait. That's what I do.

    Scares the **** outta 'em when they actually get around to you.

    Sir? Sir?

    Just 2 seconds love I'm just finishing of this guitar solo.


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  • #7
    DaveNoCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,780 ✭✭✭DaveNoCheese


    IRcolm wrote: »
    Better than Meteor:

    deep inside I hope you feel it too... Do dadadadadada....

    Worst and best hold music right there :pac:


  • #8
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    I remember ringing somewhere years ago, being put on hold and instead of music they were playing a Billy Connolly live album.


  • #9
    jester77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,264 ✭✭✭✭jester77


    I hate it when you put the phone on loudspeaker and leave it down so that you can do something else, then the music stops playing and you hear some one talking so you jump for the phone turn off the loudspeaker and say "hello" only to hear "You're call is important to us... blah blah blah"


  • #10
    AngryBollix
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,536 ✭✭✭AngryBollix


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jw_Ob9Wye18


    my knd of hold music


  • #11
    Hazys
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,510 ✭✭✭Hazys


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDMkxati5DI


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  • #12
    dark crystal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,962 ✭✭✭✭dark crystal


    Wattle wrote: »
    I remember ringing somewhere years ago, being put on hold and instead of music they were playing a Billy Connolly live album.

    Now that would be worth waiting for!

    I always get Vivaldi's Four Seasons while on hold.


  • #13
    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    up until last week the hold music where i work sounded like cheesy 70's porn music... my boss laughed at me but still he changed it after i told what it sound like.


  • #14
    Wattle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Wattle


    They should play the sound of ocean waves gently lapping against the shore. By the time they get around to you you're completely blissed out.


  • #15
    seamus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 68,173 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    DaveNoCheese wrote: »
    No recordings, no radion station, just this really really annoying 'bing' noise repeated every 10 seconds.
    That's Yoko Ono's latest single.


  • #16
    DaveNoCheese
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,780 ✭✭✭DaveNoCheese


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    up until last week the hold music where i work sounded like cheesy 70's porn music... my boss laughed at me but still he changed it after i told what it sound like.

    How do who explain that to your boss??

    "Hey Boss, our hold music sounds like the score from a movie I watched last night"


  • #17
    nb2d boss
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1 ✭nb2d boss


    Nothingbetter2d wrote: »
    up until last week the hold music where i work sounded like cheesy 70's porn music... my boss laughed at me but still he changed it after i told what it sound like.

    Don't flatter yourself that you were the reason we changed it. Now get back to work and stop being on boards during office hours we don't pay you to be on boards.... :D


  • #18
    Sindri
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,059 ✭✭✭Sindri


    nb2d boss wrote: »
    Don't flatter yourself that you were the reason we changed it. Now get back to work and stop being on boards during office hours we don't pay you to be on boards.... :D

    OMFG:eek:

    Since I don't work for you may I abuse without fear of being sacked?


  • #19
    Eathrin
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,076 ✭✭✭Eathrin


    nb2d boss wrote: »
    Don't flatter yourself that you were the reason we changed it. Now get back to work and stop being on boards during office hours we don't pay you to be on boards.... :D

    Made an account specifically for this?
    You really don't have anything better to do, do you?


  • #20
    Archeron
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 6,781 ✭✭✭Archeron


    seamus wrote: »
    That's Yoko Ono's latest single.

    The chorus is great, 'Number 8, BURP'.


  • #21
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 98,142 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    Greensleves means they have a very cheap phone system and was at one stage a symptom of the longest on hold calls, apart from technical support.


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  • #22
    Mike 1972
    Closed Accounts Posts: 8,017 ✭✭✭Mike 1972


    DaveNoCheese wrote: »
    Usually it's that cheap recorded sh!t played on a loop, sometimes it's a radio station playing. Either way it can be annoying! But all those cheap looped recordings have been topped as of today.

    I just spent the better part of a 20 minute phone call on hold to a particular business. No recordings, no radion station, just this really really annoying 'bing' noise repeated every 10 seconds... it really took the f*ckin' biscuit!!

    I see your bing noise and I raise you twenty.

    Try phoning Harvey Norman (as I used to have to do occasionally at work) and getting put on hold :eek:


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