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Recap: Of all the ways

Puzzling, those automated phone systems.

Especially when you try to access someone human through them.

"There are currently ZERO customers in front of you," said the system (only imagine the mechanical voice and the way it had of emphasizing the word "zero" because it was recorded separately). "Your current wait time is TWO minutes. The following conversation may be recorded for quality ...&c. "

After suffering an entire chapter on series and sequences in 12th grade, then again my first quarter in college, I only hope that the formula that these systems use is 2 + n and not 2n.

Though yes, that would explain a lot of things.

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