Sam's Backup Page ([personal profile] cblj_backup) wrote2011-05-20 03:38 pm

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This one elderly woman has been calling me all day because my desk number is the number of a company she worked for in the 1970s who apparently still have some of her 401K. She's actually managed to make contact with the company, but every time she gets confused, she calls me.

Last time she called, she was confirming an area code of a phone number someone else gave her.

"Is it 773 or 312? When I call 312 I get a busy signal."
"Well, ma'am, the best I can do is suggest you try 773."

While I was on the phone with her -- Phone #1 -- both Phone #1's second line and Phone #2's first line rang. And the UPS guy got stuck in the (broken) door, which was just as well because he prevented the food delivery guy from entering until I'd dealt with the Epic Telephones.

I knew I shouldn't have said I was coping better. Since then, it's been like some kind of industrial stress test only instead of a car it's my ability to deal with chaos.

[identity profile] kaesa.livejournal.com 2011-05-21 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
Once I had a drunk guy call our firm five or six times over the course of a day. He was looking for a lawyer, but it was emphatically not my boss. He was looking for a SPECIFIC lawyer, who he could only remember the first name of, and he wouldn't explain what kind of lawyer he even needed. He was very clear on the fact that since said lawyer was a MAN, and I was NOT, he did not want to talk to me. He just kept shouting the first name he had at me as if I could just magic him up.

[identity profile] copperbadge.livejournal.com 2011-05-21 12:46 pm (UTC)(link)
I've had people do that -- call because someone they knew worked here ten or twelve years ago, but they only know a first name and not what department they were with or anyone else who knew them...