INDIA CALLING(UNLOADED)

" Can you do one thing for me?"

"What's that?"

"I have to air this programme in another fifteen minutes. Can you just receive my calls and say I am out for a while. Of course don' t say that to BOSS."

"OK. As long as I am here."

Our arrangement kept him away from the landline and intercom calls. But it was not long when his mobile started ringing.

"Hello"

"$#% ! @#$%^ !^&*$ %^&(*$"

"I am not interested and busy now."

"^%@ !@#$%%&%#^*$ @#$!@"

"How can I say when I will be free? Is it not sufficient to say that I am busy now? Where have you got my number? Don't you know I can sue you for making unsolicited calls at my personal number?"

" @&amp;amp;amp;%$@()$#%^&@$"

He resumed work after unloading all the bitterness of the day at a single breath...

"I try to be as sober as I can. But they are just not ready to accept that one can be busier than they can think of. This was the fourth call I received since I entered office."

I n d i a C a l l i n g!!!

Comments

shyam said…

I use a very simple and polite "thank you, but I am not interested" and cut the line routine. It is surprisingly effective.

5:26 PM

Abaniko said…

In this instance, how we sometimes wish that phones were not invented...

6:24 PM

Rita said…

My policy is the exact same as codey :)

2:56 PM

dwaipayan said…

i like this post. although i dint understood it totally.

9:57 PM

aklanta said…

codey
abaniko
rita

yes, that's the simplest and most effective way, even though there were few times when I was impelled to be a little bit more harsh than that. My friend that day lost his calm, that was the fourth shot of the day

dwaipayan

It’s a sequel of the earlier post, INDIA CALLING in which I poured all my appreciation for the phenomenon called “Call Centre”…this was supposed to be the other side of the story…thanx

2:24 PM

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