Message #39469

[Christine Itterly]

OMG, where should I begin......

"Maybe 15 years is too long to be a receptionist"  Maybe it's also too long to be a writing a weekly colum (as she has done for over 15), because she has obviously lost her mind.

"For Instance, callers have no way to know they are tying up company lines"  Ok, and just what do they "think" they are doing to the phone line, giving it a massage.  Of course they are tying up lines and if they are to dense to know that then they should be banned from using a telephone.

"In fact, most of us have been encouraged to hang on a line endlessly to "wait for the next availabe person...please stay on the line...calls will be answered in the order in which the were received""  HELLO, the call was anwsered, I don't every recall saying the above to anyone, do you?

There is so much more I could say, but frankly, I am busy keeping people on hold.

The nerve and audacity of Joans comments leads me to believe that she is just like the rest of corporate imbuciles (sp) that think "Receptionists" are nothing but "silly, little school girls that couldn't get an education.  Well, we will show them.  "Oh, I'm sorry, there is no coffee today, I seem to have misplaced the directions" (just for startes, get them where it hurts, I can bring mine from home for awhile, lol).

Is there such a thing as a "receptionist" anymore?  Most of the ones I know have now turned into "the one who does it all" and still looks good doing it, and doesn't freek out at having to do it and and and.

I can say this, I will no longer be getting her article either on or offline.  She doesn't deserve the time it takes for me to actually look at them anymore.

Anyway, so much for my rant.  I feel a little better now.

Happy Wednesday!