Ever talked on the phone with a deaf person?

[Atrail]

This lady calls and says that she has deaf person who is trying to make a call to our business number.
The lady types, the operator reads to me what she types, and types back to her my response. Very strange, a first for me.

 

[FoBoT]

no, but i have gotten plenty of emails from a blind guy

 

[The Dancing Peacock]

Originally posted by: Atrail
This lady calls and says that she has deaf person who is trying to make a call to our business number.
The lady types, the operator reads to me what she types, and types back to her my response. Very strange, a first for me.

when I was doing support for the on-campus ISP, someone called the tech support line with the same setup. Try having to explain 3 or 4 times about removing someone from the Network Properties, or having them read the TCP/IP settings to me. It worked out, if I remember correctly. Not only did I have to get information about his configuration, but the operator had to be able to give me the info, and type my instructions, and she was clueless.

 

[bmacd]

i've sold two computers to deaf people before and we get a customer at kmart that tries to take advantage of his disability (IMO...) by (again, IMO) playing the sympathy card. We all know he's a deaf customer and we get several Hot Wheels car collectors in our store that prey on the toy department manager. She's quite blunt and refuses the customer (per the store manager...we WON'T let customers open Hot Wheels cases to look for one or two cars) and so the customer comes over to us other department heads and tries to communicate with us. Only once has one of the employees gotten so frustrated that they went in the store manager's office (where Hot Wheels cases are kept) and let him go through and pick whatever cars he wanted.

*sigh*

<---not a bad guy...just doesn't like to be played for a fool

-=bmacd=-

 

[yakko]

When I worked as a manager at Taco Bell we had two deaf guys working for us. I had to take a couple relay calls from them. I also get relay calls at my current job.

 

[Platypus]

Hahahaha, relay calls are so messed up. I have had a few where I work.

 

[murphy55d]

There's a deaf guy who works at WalMart overnight in the pet department...usually isnt a problem, though sometimes when people come in at night & want fish from the tanks theres a bit of a communication delay.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Yes. And calls from quadrapalegics(sp?), and one person who was blind. It was kind of disorienting to hear the computer speak...

 

[The Stigenator]

My brother's friend is deaf.. communication is a real problem..

I mean she has to be facing us to know if we are talking, she reads lips, on teh phone you have to go thru
the california relay operator..

Its hard I tell you.. I dont think I can go into a "relationship" with someone like that.. its going to be really hard.
However I will probably do if it comes to it. However this girl I will never go into with her cause she is quite useless
without her gadgets.. luckily my brother isnt dating her..

 

[MojoJojo]

Yep.

When I worked a tech support desk those calls took forever.

 

[XCon]

ya,
I had a girlfriend in high school that was deaf.
SHe would call me through a "service". She had a teletype, and the "service" would tranlate back and forth for us.

There's a chance I would still be with her, if I wasn't such a dumba$$ back then. She was HOTTTTTTTTTTTTTT!

 

[Kadarin]

About 12 years ago I worked for Super Shops (while they were still around.. they sold automotive high performance parts), and where the store was, there was also a school for the deaf nearby, so I'd get those calls fairly often. I always treated those guys very nicely, and we kept getting referrals from them..

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: MojoJojo
Yep.

When I worked a tech support desk those calls took forever.

Do you mean user-deaf, or real deaf?

 

[MiniGolfIsFun]

Ever talked on the phone with a deaf person?

No, but ever got talked to like you were deaf? Those people are called the chinese.

 

[vi edit]

Yup. A night operator at a hospital I supported was deaf.

Try giving 100 character long unix commands correctly to one of those relay operators and then have passed correctly back over to the deaf person.

AIEEE!!!

 

[athithi]

I implemented a time-report system from IBM at Gallaudet Univ. (for the hearing and speech impaired) in DC about 3 years back. There used to be this really smart and sharp oriental fella who couldn't hear or speak a single word and would get really animated trying to put a point across to me! I tried my best to act as normally as possible around them - but its tough ,especially when it's the first time you're meeting someone like that. They used to have this classical music station playing all day long in the computer lab - probably to make it less erie for normal hearing people who visit, but it only made it more weird....also, this guy had this table lamp connected to his telephone and it would turn on and off rapidly everytime there was an incoming call! Pretty cool

 

[hoihtah]

yes...
back in highschool... i took ASL classes at a deaf school.

those tty's are cool.

 

[athithi]

Oh, and we often used Notepad to communicate Imagine chatting with a person sitting beside you at the same computer Never spoken with a deaf person over the phone, but there was this Cable installation female who came in for a 2 - 5 PM appointment at 2 PM, reported back to her office that she came in at the appointed time via her TTY and then disappeared for the next few hours to return much, much later :disgust:

 

[Modeps]

yep. it was kinda weird... I used to work in a video rental store, and this woman calls and says that she's going to relay a conversation for a deaf person... then the deaf person started asking about pr0n. :Q

 

[ThreeLeggedGnome]

yep. it was kinda weird... I used to work in a video rental store, and this woman calls and says that she's going to relay a conversation for a deaf person... then the deaf person started asking about pr0n.

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You have to be kidding. What would a deaf person want porn movies for? The corny background music and fake moans and groans are the best part of any porn movie.

 

[vi edit]

You have to be kidding. What would a deaf person want porn movies for? The corny background music and fake moans and groans are the best part of any porn movie.

They're deaf, not dead. Deaf people have penises too.

 

[AgentZap]

YES, when I worked tech support there were a couple times when I got calls from 'California Relay'

HORRIBLE HORRIBLE. Took like an hour to fix simple stuff. Plus they make you say 'over' at the end of each of your sentences.

 

[Demon-Xanth]

Originally posted by: vi_edit
Yup. A night operator at a hospital I supported was deaf.

Try giving 100 character long unix commands correctly to one of those relay operators and then have passed correctly back over to the deaf person.

AIEEE!!!

<Tech Support> Type chmod 644...
<Relay> ...o O (this is taking too long)
<Relay> Type: rm -rf *

 

[NogginBoink]

Yep. Support calls through a relay are difficult. I finally asked, "do you have a TTY telephone number I can use to call you on?"

Of course the customer had a TTY phone. The support call went MUCH better that way.

 

[SuperTool]

Ever talked on the phone with a deaf person?

No, I never called Rush Limbaugh