How to annoy a whole office

Posted on June 20, 2007, under Living in Germany, daily life.

Some wise guy has decided to try and send a FAX to a desk phone line in here. And to add to this, the guy getting this FAX via the phone is of course not here to fix his phone, so every 2 minutes, the desk gets a call, and rings for 30 secs. Here is another case of technology really not helping. We tried to leave the phone off the hook, but that didn’t swing it, inface it rang louder ! Anyway I’ve turned on some fancy feature on our IP phones, called “caller protection” (loosely translated, Anrufschutz) so that the phone no longer rings.

2 Replies to "How to annoy a whole office"

joe on June 20, 2007

sounds like someone has been watching Seinfeld reruns!

KRAMER: Listen. Heads up, Elaine. I’m gonna have to stop by later and pick up a fax.

ELAINE: At work?

KRAMER: No. At your apartment.

ELAINE: I don’t have a fax machine.

JERRY: Here we go.

KRAMER: Well, now what are we gonna do? (to Jerry) See? This is why you should get a fax and a Xerox.

JERRY: And a dead bolt.

KRAMER (to Elaine) Are ya sure you don’t have one? Because there’s a lot of stuff in my apartment I’ve never seen.

ELAINE: Then maybe you have a fax machine.

KRAMER: You just blew my mind.

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INT. ELAINE’S APARTMENT – DAY

The phone rings. Elaine enters her apartment carrying bags of groceries. She drops the bags and picks up the phone.

ELAINE: Hello?

A fax squeal.

ELAINE: What?

She checks her answering machine.

MACHINE: You have 57 messages. Message one…

Fax squeal. She skips to the next message.

MACHINE: Message two…

Fax squeal. She skips to the next message.

MACHINE: Message three…

GEORGE: Hey, it’s George. Listen, I-

She skips to the next message.

MACHINE: Message four…

Fax squeal.

ELAINE Kramer!

The phone rings. Elaine hesitates and lets it ring. She finally caves and picks it up.

EALINE: Hello?

Another fax squeal.

ELAINE: Aah!

Lauren on June 30, 2007

To remedy this, you can pick up the phone and use the call forwarding function to the fax machine…not all that technologically advanced now is it…;o)

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