Tales from the switch
I am currently working on the switchboard for a large firm. The phone rings.
Me: Good afternoon, *company name*.
Caller: Hello, Mandy?
Me: No, you've come through to switchboard, I'm afraid.
Caller: *silence*
Me: hello?
Caller: Er, no, I don't think so. I'll try again. *hangs up*
Me: ...
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You've got me, Plubs. It's one of my favourite pastimes, pretending to be Mandy pretending to be the switchboard operator.
Well, as the woman (for it was a woman, not a man) had rung up to speak to Mandy, I'm not all that surprised she didn't want to chat to me, Pete! What did get my goat was the fact that she was (a) rude and (b) illogical about it - if she'd thought for a second she would have realised that I could transfer her through to the mythical Mandy ...
I used to work somewhere where my colleague Lorna's friend simply would not accept that I was not Lorna. Example conversation:
"Oh hi Ann, I will put you through to Lorna."
"Ooh stop messing about Lorna, I know it's you."
"No, this is Kate."
"There's no one called Kate. What are you talking about, Lorna, have you gone mad?"
ad infinitum. I used to rather enjoy the surrealism of it all.
However, you underestimate your powers if you think that her being a woman would stop her wishing to talk to you ;)
(PS - You were in my QoTD today! :P)
Lol! How stupid...