Please hold!
Have you ever had someone answer the phone and all they say is "Please hold"? Frustrating isn't it! Before you know it a recorded voice comes back on the line and says, "all circuits are busy right now. Your call will be answered in the order that it was received." ( and how the hell do you know what order that is)? Before you know it, you have heard that voice perhaps 10 different times in a matter of 5 minutes, but nothing is getting accomplished. Is it frustrating? It can be!!! Especially if you are in a hurry and only feel like you have a short amount of time to get this question answered b/c you have to get back to your daily schedule. Hmmmm......
I can relate! I have been there. In fact, I am there now! PLEASE HOLD. Don't do ANYTHING you really enjoy. Don't teach full time, don't RUN, don't drink alcohol, and whatever you do, DON'T GET TOO STRESSED about it all!!! Hmm??? Just: Please Hold!!! It may take a few months or years but just try not to think about it. Keep yourself occupied but don't do any of the above. Sounds like simple steps to follow, but somehow you feel yourself getting impatient.
Do you ever feel like you want to yell at the person (even if it is a recording) on the other end of the phone? Of course you do! But then you realize they can't really fix it, they just tell you they will try to help you fix it. They offer you other 800 numbers to call, but each person tells you something different. You've been there! Haven't you?
If one more person says, "Please hold", meaning, let's just give it 2 more weeks and then we will try this.... or this... or we can wait 5 more weeks and see what happens. For some reason it is like the man in the commercial: he waits on hold forever and then finally gets a real person on the line. The train he is on goes through a tunnel and he looses service! YUP! That is exactly what it is like! He doesn't want to make that call again and go through WAITING on that LONG painful HOLD b/c when he gets a real voice, he might get disconnected AGAIN!!!!
If you are stresesed by this blog: JUST RELAX!!!!!!
Hee hee!!!! JUST RELAX... famous last words of the doctors and ignorant people!
Tomorrow is HUMP DAY... just relax... you are almost to Friday!
Hugs,
J
posted by Janell @ 8:03 PM
1 Comments:
wow........... i hate those phone calls. "please hold", as if i don't have other things i should be doing. and just relaxing is often easier said than done. today's society has us being pulled in so many directions, it's often hard to keep us grounded and know which way is up. people tell ya oh it will be ok, or just give it time, or in due time.......(i hate that one), when in reality they are probably right, but most people want it to be ok or right, "NOW", and that's the hard part.........(waiting) for it . and yes it is almost friday!!!
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