Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.
Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-
On 31 Aug 2021 at 05:05p, MATT MUNSON pondered and said...
Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.
said no one ever right?
Yeah being on hold barks...
I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.
Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-
Hi MATT,
I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.It was one song with 2-3 messages rotated like please don't hang up.
How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)
It was one song with 2-3 messages rotated like please don't hang up.
Being on hold for a hour waiting for an Unemployment Claims specialist.
I recall once I did a voicework job for a Taxi company, I had to say
those 'please hold for a operator' style messages etc and then played
some pre-recorded phone ringing sounds.. etc.
Jump forward about a month later, I was out late, had been drinking and needed a Taxi home. I called the number only to hear myself saying
'please wait etc.' ring ring, ring ring... :)
Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-
I was on hold for 2 hours 17 minutes. I was lucky resolution happened.
How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)
MATT MUNSON wrote to Avon <=-
How many times can you handle hearing the same 12 songs eh? ;-)
It was one song with 2-3 messages rotated like please don't hang up.
Avon wrote to MATT MUNSON <=-
I recall once I did a voicework job for a Taxi company, I had to say
those 'please hold for a operator' style messages etc and then played
some pre-recorded phone ringing sounds.. etc.
was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You could still recognize the twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard time connecting the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or "Whip It".
haha now thats too funny.
it because it was just so... muzak-y. At one point the hygienist took
her hands out of my mouth and I took that opportunity to glance at the screen, it was Believer by Imagine Dragons!
I once worked in telecom, and we used a discman for our music on hold. Realized that after a power outage it'd gotten bumped and the "repeat" button was pressed. It played the same song over and over again for
about 3 weeks.
Another friend of mine worked in IT and used to find great odd CDs for music on hold. One that I loved was Devo's "Easy Listening Disc". It was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You could still recognize the twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard time connecting
the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or "Whip It".
My boss spent the weekend recording the thing, and you'd hear one of the prompts he'd recorded on Saturday morning, followed by a prompt recorded on Sunday afternoon, after he'd recorded hundreds of prompts.
The difference in his voice between prompts recorded at the beginning
and the end was striking.
We bought him a little jar of cough drops for his desk. :)
Avon wrote to poindexter FORTRAN <=-
Reminds me of a time I was listening to the radio during breakfast and
the DJ played U2 Desire... and played it all morning and only, even putting callers to air asking for him to stop and only for him to say thanks for calling and here's U2 and Desire...
It was his last day on air that day. I think he had had a beef with management and boy did it show that morning :)
Another friend of mine worked in IT and used to find great odd CDs
for music on hold. One that I loved was Devo's "Easy Listening
Disc". It was the band playing their hits -- as elevator music. You
could still recognize the twangy guitar, but your brain had a hard
time connecting the tune you're listening to to "Jocko Homo", or
"Whip It".
To think there was/is such a thing :) I'd say it would fetch a pretty
penny at some retro auction now :)
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