Well where to start with!!! This boss of mine has just taken over and in doing that he had gone I work for an IT department whose staff has shrunk from 13 to 5 over the last five years. And one of our employees, the person responsbile from frontline helpdesk calls is almost completly worthless. So needless to say, I’m taking on the job responsibilties that used to be performed by many people.
I worked as a computer tech for an insurance company. One day I received a call from supervisor on the sales floor.
Me: “Hello, IT.”
Supervisor: “Hello?”
Me: “Hello?”
Supervisor: “Hello?”
Me: “Hello?”
The phone went dead. I put the phone down, and it rang again.
Me: “Hello, IT.”
Supervisor: “Hello, did you just ring me?”
Me: “No you rang me.”
Supervisor: “Did I? Oh, well, the reason I’m ringing now is because you couldn’t hear me when I rang you before.”
Me: “Yes I could.”
Supervisor: “No you couldn’t.”
Me: “Yes I could.”
Supervisor: “No you couldn’t.”
Me: “Believe me, I could.”
Supervisor: “Can you hear me now?”
Me: “Yes, of course I can.”
Supervisor: “Oh, that’s all right then. Catch you later.”
“I worked as a head of an IT department in a smaller insurance company. I’ve worked there only part time, or as needed (the team consisted of 2 people :)). I was about 22 at that time. We had this “game” we played with my collegue, and a good friend – once in a while I’d tell him after, say, he came back from lunch – “Joseph, such and such called, you’re supposed to go to him/her immediately, he has some problem…” and off he went ..and came back like “You moron! :))” So I teased him quite a lot like this. As we did this more and more, we went to higher positions – like President of the company called, head of such and such department called etc.. Of course you never got to talk to the real bosses – only to their secretaries to find out that…no, they didn’t call you.
ONE DAY THOUGH, I came back from lunch and he tells me – vice-president’s secretary called, that the vice president needs to discuss this and that with you (he made up something pretty believable). So I went and thought – if she hadn’t called, the secretary will tell me. I came to the big boss’ place and the secretary was on the phone and just waived at me like “Alright, go on the vice-presidents office” or just maybe she meant “No, dont’ go, they have a meeting and I didnt’ call you!”. Anyways – I went in. There was a meeting there with the bosses of all departments – there were like 5 people, in a fairly small office, all siting in front of this big boss’ desk. They were discussing something..so I took a chair from accross the room and sat down and listened and took notes for like 5 minutes. Then the vice-president interupted the speaker and she asked – “Yes Daniel, what can we do for you?” I was like – I dont’ know…tell me, what I can do for you.. and she just looked for a second at me ..and then it hit me…DAMN it – she didnt’ call me
It wasn’t all that funny then, but now I get a great laugh from this story.”
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I worked as a computer tech for an insurance company. One day I received a call from supervisor on the sales floor.
Me: “Hello, IT.”
Supervisor: “Hello?”
Me: “Hello?”
Supervisor: “Hello?”
Me: “Hello?”
The phone went dead. I put the phone down, and it rang again.
Me: “Hello, IT.”
Supervisor: “Hello, did you just ring me?”
Me: “No you rang me.”
Supervisor: “Did I? Oh, well, the reason I’m ringing now is because you couldn’t hear me when I rang you before.”
Me: “Yes I could.”
Supervisor: “No you couldn’t.”
Me: “Yes I could.”
Supervisor: “No you couldn’t.”
Me: “Believe me, I could.”
Supervisor: “Can you hear me now?”
Me: “Yes, of course I can.”
Supervisor: “Oh, that’s all right then. Catch you later.”
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