Posted on 03/02/2005 3:38:02 PM PST by franksolich
Customer frustration led to death threats
A 19-year old from Mandal was so frustrated by a lack of customer support from communications giant Telenor that he finally sent in death threats to try and get a response.
The man pled guilty in Kristiansand municipal court to the charges and received a NOK 5,000 (USD 800) fine and a 21-day suspended jail sentence, NRK (Norwegian Broadcasting) reports.
The man's problems began when he contacted the former telecoms monopoly by e-mail after having Internet problems in late 2003 and early 2004. But after failing to get a reply he eventually lost his temper and began emailing threats.
"Have a f**king Merry Christmas, you can die as far as I am concerned. I am going to make hell for you, where neither (former CEO) Tormod Hermansen nor any of the other lackeys can feel safe. I will personally come up to Fornebu and kill you one by one if you don't get your finger out soon and fix this f**king problem," read some of the mail.
Telenor information chief Arve Lessum said it was rare for customers to become so angry, and regretted that they caused sufficient irritation to result in such threats.
Telenor reported the incidents to the police and said that they did not intend to accept such threats in the future.
The wonderful Aftenposten is full of interesting stories today; including one about what is done with the corpse of a dead wolf up there, in the Nebraska of Europe.
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/
(I have no idea why thing does not link properly; if one does not care to copy-and-paste, click on the link in red, above.)
He probably got pissed when he pressed the correct number to their voice response system and was told that he had reached the wrong department!
The she-wolf shot in error during Norway's recent controversial cull of five animals will now be skinned in public in downtown Elverum this weekend.
"Ping" for the Norway ping list.
In case anyone is wondering--which anyone might, or might not, be--the Norway ping list has 41 members now, after 30 days of operations.
The breakdown is something like this: (a) authentic Norwegians actually in Norway, 9; (b) authentic Norwegians for one reason or another currently in the United States, 4; (c) Americans in Norway right now, 3; (d) Americans of Norwegian descent, 21; and oddities such as myself, not able to classify, 4.
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I am a non-Norwegian Brit by the way so you can add one more nation to the make up of your great and informative Norway ping list.
I already counted you as one of the oddities, sir, along with myself and two others.
Wonderful people, the British.
Cheers,
You must tell me more about Nebraska sometime.
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There's about three times as much to tell about Norway, the Nebraska of Europe, as there is to tell about Nebraska, the Norway of America.
Large areas but small populations; not any significant impact (of Norway) on Europe or (of Nebraska) on America.
Both places can boast of having bison.
Nebraska, no longer a power in college football, could evaporate tomorrow, and America would not notice, other than when it wishes fine beef.
Norway could evaporate tomorrow, and the only thing Paris, Brussels, and Berlin would miss is the billions of dollars Norway has carefully saved for the future, from its oil revenues.
That is why, sir, the European "Union" wishes to have Norway--for its money, not for itself. The declining economies of Old Europe could surely use that money, to prop themselves up; if I were Norwegian or British, I would hire the Norwegian border guards to keep their wary eyes on those stashes of cash.
You know, I have tried five or six different things with this "linking," each of them five or six times.....and sometimes they link, sometimes they do not.
This peculiarly seems to happen with the Aftenposten, which surprises me, considering that particular web-site is so "user friendly" (and so full of good stuff; I have not yet finished reading all the letters, there are so many of them).
After the income tax season is done, I plan to dedicate an entire day to figuring this out.
<<not a fast learner.
A little trial and error works wonders. :^)
Uh-huh. Much trial, much error.
I had never bothered trying to learn this until the advent of the Norway ping list, because I had never had to link anything (in text) before.
By the way, if anyone from the Aftenposten, the finest newspaper in Europe, happens to see this, my offer still stands--if a reporter there writes a story about bison in Norway, and one of the two translators translates it, well then, I will "floral express" an armload of flowers to the one translator, shake the hand of the other translator, and send some fine Nebraska beef, which is too fine and too expensive in Norway, to the reporter.
I KNOW JUST HOW THIS GUY FEELS!
I was ready to threaten Verizon a few months ago, and I basically had to go pycho-bitch in person to their techs in another incident after that to get my NEXT problem resolved.
You know, you're a woman in business, you try to be nice, professional, polite, business like, YOU GET NOWHERE!
Here are your choices: crying - or - psycho-bitch.
Me, I'm Irish American, born and raise in NYC, I chose psycho-bitch. My problem got solved.
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