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Today at work someone called in and asked to speak to my boss i tried his extension and there was no answer i told the caller that he is not at his desk does he want the voicemail?, the caller starting hemming and hawing and said well how often does he check his voicemail i told him i don’t know then he went into a who shpiel about how he tried to reach him last week it became a whole megillah finally i had to tell him if you want the voicemail great if you don’t fine but please give me an answer.
This happens quite a bit and is quite annoying i am soooo sorry i could not immediately gratify your request and that i cannot predict at what moment my boss will return, they act as if they are doing me a personal favor by taking the voicemail, i dont really care that u need to speak to my boss yesterday that is your issue and not mine.
I got scared for a minute that you were addressing me!
Why don’t you cut them short? Tell them their options (leave a voicemail, call back later etc..) and nicely say GOOD BYE!!
BTW, why are you still carrying daages haparnasa at this time of the night?
eclipse: lol! Me too! (Oh… I THOUGHT you weren’t around at this hour..)
Goq: You do the graveyard shift, ending at midnight, in the yeshiva office?
whats a craddy?
lol.. Im new, still learning..
I am often caught in the same situation. People trying to get my boss (who is never available, except for 2 specific hours) and people think if they beg,bug or charm me, then i will get them through at different hours. I have my standard smile, i am really so sorry but he is never available except at those times, and please, I just don’t want to take extra time from you and let you think that it could be different – nothing works by the way, so i use my coping skills – when i have to type boring long letters, i play a game to see how quickly i can type a page and keep an ongoing record (1.5 min), when i have to listen to boring lectures, i write them down using the fanciest vocabulary i can, when i have to useless talk to boring people who tell you their life story, because you were polite and said how are you or tried to include them in a conversation, i just keep saying to myself- practice patience, practice patience – this is better than patiently waiting for news from the ICU chas v’shalom..it’s a life’s battle, elevate it to your struggle for middos and for realizing that it is all in Hashem’s plan for you.
I got bored of the new threads now I’m reading page 171 of the random stuff
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