The Born Loser by Art and Chip Sansom for March 24, 2023

Must be NYC

“Your call is very important to us. Current wait time is…..”

A.I. damages.

Brutus must’ve called DAMARK.

That recording would probably say . . . “Your call will be ignored in the order it was received.”

Your call may be recorded for entertainment purposes when we stop for drinks after work.

I’d rather not and say I did..

Modern tech just iggy’s you. Like most people.

And that’s why I hate calling tech support.

The dreaded customer service call.

so does that mean the recording he was suppose to hear is broken? man, what bad timing.

Brutus, you truly have reached a dead end when you get a recording about a recording.

Your call is important to us, just not that important.

Dish Network have not been answering their phones for a week. Up to 200 minutes wait before customer service person gets on phone.

Please hold for a live agent…

The world will end, when we are all on hold, waiting to report an incoming asteroid.

I’d totally steal this for a voicemail greeting if I didn’t use my phone for business.

This will be the future example of advanced customer service. It’s only missing the phone message asking for you to rate their service with a star number rating of one to five stars, though they did nothing….

Oh, I like this one. Way better than those celebrity answers that were so popular once. I tried the estimated wait time answer (Thank you for holding the current wait time is: 4 hours, 23 minutes) but that one seemed to really irritate people.

My phone message used to be “The number you have dialed is not the one you want. At the tone, please hang up”

This message is under construction.

And the recording was no doubt made off shore……some where!

@KA7DRE- Yes! Those recordings can be a royal PITA!!

Don’t bother with the speed dial, Thorny.

Brutus, that is really clever and funny, unfortunately it took me awhile to get it, good on you…

Was that Veeblefesters’ way of saving money?

Brutus, you gotta get an updated newer Android…

Or Brutus, is that the old land-line set wifi(or whatever they called it) phone?

Oh, it is the old land line, I see the antenna…

Brutus, am I pestering you too much?…

call waitingʷᵃᶦᵗᶦⁿᵍ

I called a county tax office today. Their message was bad – it was not fuzzy sounding, but they rattled off their website address and snail mail address off so fast I could barely get them. I am quick with messages due to receiving often 100 a day in my job at times. When I got a human on the phone, I nicely mentioned that most people would not be able to write down either address off due to the speed, and that would mean he would get more calls. He answered my question and ended the conversation with, “I will be going right now to talk to my supervisor about that message!”

“You are currently caller number one. Estimated wait time is two minutes.” I’ve had that go on well past two minutes at times.

Wouldn’t surprise me at all