Offenbach Interruptus, or Multitasking in Hell

The BBQ Pit
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Things are plunging into the sewer here at work this week even faster than I expected.
We are shorthanded here in the Pathology department, so naturally everyone has decided that This Is The Week I Want My Lesion Removed.

It was while I was making my FIFTH phone call to try and reach the GODLIKE SURGEON who couldn’t be bothered to hang around for my frozen section diagnosis and while I was on HOLD trying to read out a sudden flood of additional frozens, handle questions and deal with other allegedly urgent requests, the answering service recording to which I was treated on speakerphone was some Folies Bergere/Can-Can-style music which kept getting cut off and then restarting, i.e. DA-DUMDUMDUM-DA-DA-dee-dee-DEE! - Da-DUM-DUm-Da! da-DEE (dead silence). A few seconds later, suddenly - Da-DUMDUMDUM-DA-da-DEE DEE DEE! DADADAH-DADaDUH 'DOH!!! (more silence) da-DUM DUM DUM (well, you get the idea).

I will have that tune in my head now for the next week, easily.
And then the answering service hung up on me.

It was benign, if any one cares. :smack:

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Benign? You sure?

Seems to me all answering-service music is malignant.

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Your speakerphone problems were likely caused by the mic overriding the speaker, as speakerphones are meant to do. Next time use the mute button and put yourself into pure muzak heaven.

Also, I misread sewer as server and all through your OP I was wondering where the IT bit starts. :confused:

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But all my other speakerphone Muzak-glurge sounds just fine (barf).

And will all the dancing Hitlers leave now? We’re only auditioning singing Hitlers.

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In our office, the we have a cheesy top 40 radio station that plays over the office phones. The problem is our customers don’t hear it when they are on hold. They get dead silence, we get the same crappy 5 songs played over and over. It’s been like this for the 3 years I’ve been here.