Squeaky’s Blog

I used to work for this company called N.E.W. (National Electronics Warranty).  They are a really big company that has contracts with all different companies like Sam’s Club, Visa, K-Mart, JC Penny, DirecTV, Dell, Office Max and many others.  I worked for them under the DirecTV one and it was an okay job depending on what part you looked at.  One of the best benefits was that I got to work from home, and we would get all kinds of discounts from the other companies that N.E.W. had contracts with, so that was really nice.  The bad side was that being from home you got little support from others and you were on your own a lot of the time.  Then to make it worse people were unbelievably nasty on the phone.  It always amazed me how rude people were or got.  It’s like the saying “don’t shoot the messenger” just went out the window when people would call in.  I have been called all kinds of names and talked down to like you wouldn’t believe.  Then for every nice person that called in I got ten others that I wanted to hang up on or yell back at and tell them what for!  So now when I call into places I try to be nice to the person on the phone because I have been in their shoes.  But with all that said one of the girls I was in training with was Lori and we along with others all chat in different chat rooms where ever we can get help from when needed.  However we also used it when things were slow or just needed a laugh.  We would talk about all kinds of things and sometimes one of the things I would do to make the time go by was change the words to songs and it was always Lori that loved them the most and she has a special place in my heart.  She is an amazing person and now I drop in the chats when I can and just chit chat with her and the others and I try to have a have a song for her or two to make her smile for when all those nasty people are yelling at her.  It really does start to get to you at times when all you have is people yelling at you and treating you like your stupid.  So that is my little explanation of why I change the words to songs around.