Today's post comes courtesy of "News Quirks," a compilation of strange but true news stories put together by Roland Sweet. Having worked as a directory assistance operator for 7 years, I thoroughly enjoyed this one...
Japanese officials arrested a 44-year-old man who made 37,760 silent calls to directory assistance so he could hear the "kind" voices of the female operators. "When I made a complaint call once, the operator dealt with it very kindly," the man told Hiroshima police, "so I wanted to hear these women's voices." The newspaper Mainichi Shimbun reported the calls, made between March and July this year, caused psychological distress to more than 100 operators at Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp.
Gee. Maybe the man should have had more to complain about.
Psychological distress? You want to talk about psychological distress? Forget about the silent calls. What's really stressful is working in a room full of people who couldn't pass a psych exam if they had Thomas Edison's brain implanted in their head. Why else would operators carry around stuffed frogs and talk to them all day? ("Frog Lady") ...Or eat hard candy immediately after chipping a tooth-- on a hard pretzel? ("Big Show") ...Or screaming obscenities at your co-workers because you don't love Jesus as much as she does? ("Cricket") ...Or leer about muttering, "Bodies for dollars!" ("Vidalia") ...Or yelling across the room, "The toilet seat burned my @$$!" ("Green Gogglin") ...Or pretend-playing in construction-paper corn fields? ("Hawaiian Al") ...Or....
Remember, folks, these are the people helping you get information.
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1 comment:
sounds like my kinda place to work!
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