*sigh*

[shadesong]

Why do people call for our professors before 9 AM? News flash: It's summer. If the prof isn't teaching, they won't be here before 10-11 AM, if at all.

My latest example of why I hate playing receptionist:

Me: Math/Computer Science, can I help you?
Bimbo: Um. Okay. I was supposed to call somebody back at this number? He left me a message?
Me: Ooookay. Who was it?
Bimbo: I don't really know. It was a man, he had an accent.
(note: We have about 30 professors and probably as many grad students. Most of them are men. Most of them have accents.)
Me: Okay. So, do you have any information on this person? Can you try to sound out the name?
Bimbo: Um. I think it started with a Y?
Me: Could it have been Yoshitaka?
Bimbo: I think so, maybe.

*gritting teeth*

I hate telephones...

Comments

[metaphorge.livejournal.com]

i hate verbal communication in general, over the telephone especially

time to hurry up and evolve telepathy....

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm bad with verbal communication. I do anything I can via e-mail.

I have those conversations almost daily...

[alphafem.livejournal.com]

They always go something like this:

Me: Good morning, Visiting Nursing, how may I help you?
Confused Older person: Hello dear. Someone from there called me?
Me: Could it have been your visiting nurse?
C.O.P.: Is that the person who cleans my house?
Me: (oh so patiently) No Ma'am. That would be your home maker. The visiting nurse is the one who pours your pills/changes your dressing/checks your sanity.
C.O.P.: Oh. So do you know what they wanted?
Me: Do you know who your visiting nurse is?
C.O.P.: Well she's very nice and she has children. Oh and she drives one of those newer cars.

So I feel your pain. Immensely.

[maltor.livejournal.com]

Everyone goes after Bill Gates as some big technological Satan. However, having done phone based computer support for over 7 years, I only think of him as one of the higher up demons. Alexander Graham Bell... Now that's the one true SATAN!

[shadesong.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. Telephones are eeeevil...