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One of the many perks of my job is that I get to spend a lot
of time on the phone, calling people who have no interest in talking to me.
Wait
perk is not the right word. Oh well, it’ll come to me.
Anyway,
when your job involves making cold calls, it usually means you spend most of
your time talking to receptionists and voice mails.
I’ve
got no beef with the receptionist crowd. They’re just trying to do their job:
keep hooligans like me from bothering their boss, while I do mine: kinda sorta
bother their boss.
The
voice mails are another story.
Obviously
the most annoying voice mail is the tried and true: “Hi! (needlessly long pause,
just long enough for me to introduce myself before the rest of the message
kicks in) You’ve reached so and so who works somewhere and so forth.”
It’s
2013. It’s unforgivable people in America still kind this gag funny. If we
moved past Dane Cook, can’t we leave this one behind, too?
So that
one takes the top spot, but sliding into second is a phenomenon that’s much
lesser known, but still pretty initiating.
