Please Hold , Your Call Means Absolutely Nothing To Me. Does this sound familar?
I have found myself, as a real estate agent, spending large amounts of time waiting to talk to the 2 people at each bank responsible for 9,207,003 short sales and foreclosures. So here I am waiting on hold on my phone for Ema Jacmearound or Phil Needmoretime to pick up. I have come up with several solutions on how to spend my life on hold...
What are you doing on hold?
- Reading (War and Peace comes to mind)
- Organize your inbox
- Video games
- Checking the help wanted ads
- Personal Hygiene
- Balancing your checkbook
- Cross word puzzles
- Writing the great American novel
- Looking in the want ads for a new career
- Craig's list
- eBay
- Surfing the web in general
- YouTube
- Searching the MLS
- Doodling
- Building houses out of business cards
- Looking at the Vacation pictures of Hawaii, Italy, downtown Oxnard CA.
- Cleaning your office
- Cleaning your house
- Trying to read or find your notes from last time you called this person
- Counting the times the recorded voice tells you, how important your call is
- Figuring out why the company hasn't tuned in the music with the on hold station
- Singing 99 bottles of beer on the wall
- Trying to Google your prom date from high school
- Coloring your doodles
- Eating everything in sight
- Trying to figure out how old some the food in your desk is
- Trying to figure out who sat in your desk before you got it
- Trying to name all the agents in your office as of when you went on hold
- Naming all the capitals of the states
- Organizing your desk calendar
- Listening to your iPod with one ear bud
- Counting how many times your call is important
- Trying to remember why and who you're on hold for...
- Adding to your bucket list...
- Recycling old paperwork
- Catchin up on that beauty rest
- How about blogging on the Rain
You might want to keep this list close to your desk. You never know when you might be on hold for, might be on hold for, oh crap, what time is it???
(C)2010, Paul Henderson, Please Hold , Your Call Means Absolutely Nothing To Me, All Rights Reserved
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