Escalation Arm



Escalation Arm happens in a call center environment where you are required to raise your hand to get a team lead or supervisor, and the supervisor is in the bathroom, or outside smoking, or away due to a family emergency, and the blood drains from your arm and then it swells and it gets eaten by gangrene as you wait for them to return. If you'd been allowed to get up and check, this would have never happened.

Variations:
 * Being given cute little flags to hold up until your arm falls asleep as you wait for help.
 * Being told to use the escalation line, except you're put on hold for more than 2 minutes, so you're forced to raise your hand again while the customer yells at you.