Taxing Faxing Over And Over
(We recently hired a new guy to help out in the office, though mostly with mundane tasks. In his application, he stated that he has 10+ years of experience working in an office. On his first day, I ask him to fax a document to a customer. Several minutes later I get a call from said customer.)
Customer: “Hi. I called you yesterday about a document you wanted to fax to me.”
Me: “Oh, yes. A coworker is already on it.”
Customer: “I know… He can stop now.”
Me: “Sorry, how do you mean?”
Customer: “Just this second I’m getting my 26th copy.”
(I quickly apologize and tell him I’ll take care of it, thinking there might be a malfunction with our fax device. I run to the room where it’s located planning to plug it off, only to find our new hire just punching in the number of the customer again.)
Me: “What are you doing?!”
New Hire: “I’m trying to fax this stupid thing but it always comes back out!”
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