I hate it when this happens. A guy called to check the status of his application. I looked at the database and saw the app was assigned to my boss. So I offered to transfer his call to her office.
Click, beep-beep-beep-beep. Ka-slammo went my receiver. I listened to the distant sound of her telephone ringing. Then, silence. The call went into voice mail.
Five minutes later, my voice mail light began to flash. It's ..... the guy again. My boss had transferred his voice mail message to me.
Now, I ask you: what is the point of having applications assigned to you, if you're not even going to listen to the phone messages that go along with them? Hmm?
One might as well ask: why bother to have a bohemian, free-spirited SO if all he does now is hang around the neighborhood guys and talk about electronic pet doors and lawnmowers?
I suggest you set up a random forward message generator tied in to the State's phone system. Merely push a button and the message will be forwarded to a number from the State Office's database picked entirely at random. That way the guy may actually be connected to somebody who can help him without ever knowing exactly what kind of help he actaully needs. Who knows, it could even be you!
Posted by: Anthony | June 07, 2004 at 11:42 AM
I like it. Maybe BB could invent a random voice mail forwarding generator for this purpose! That'd really give the state's customer service a bad name. (And in my opinion, BB was never bohemian - even in college, he was just a suburbanite in search of a subdivision.)
Posted by: pam | June 07, 2004 at 12:35 PM
OMG, our tax dollars at work!
Posted by: Becky | June 07, 2004 at 01:48 PM
Remind me not to apply there!
Posted by: Genuine | June 07, 2004 at 07:13 PM