2:49 PM me: Ready to do this?
chelsey.plumlee: Ready as I can be! Never done Gchat.
2:50 PM me: First, question: if you had to be a fruit, which fruit would you be?
chelsey.plumlee: Strawberry
2:51 PM me: Well-played.
Follow-up question: when people call here asking for me, why do you insist on actually transferring them to my desk?
2:52 PM chelsey.plumlee: I haven’t learned how to politely tell people that sometimes no one wants to talk to them.
2:53 PM me: I never want to talk to ANYONE. Even if my wife calls — especially if my wife calls, you must tell them that I’m in a meeting. Or the bathroom. Your call.
Anyway, what did you do before you came to us at D Magazine?
2:55 PM chelsey.plumlee: I worked with an archaeology group in Belize for the last 4 years. I stay for around 2 months each trip. Started out as a student studying abroad and ended up working as a staff member.
2:56 PM me: Archaeologist. I was going to guess that. Our last receptionist was a philatelist before she came to work for us.
2:57 PM You’ve been on the job now for nearly four days. What’s your take on the office?
Don’t lie.
2:58 PM chelsey.plumlee: I honestly love it. Everyone has been really nice and helpful even when I send them calls that they don’t want. The view is also amazing from my desk!
2:59 PM me: You mean the view of the stairs up to the sales department?
3:01 PM chelsey.plumlee: Well yes I guess literally I face the stairs and the bathrooms (kind of awkward). But the great view of down town is just to my left.
me: Who goes to the bathroom the most frequently? Seems like Zac is in there every 10 minutes.
3:03 PM chelsey.plumlee: I haven’t learned all of the names of the faces I see sneaking around all day. I’ll get back to you on that!
3:05 PM me: Okay, last question. What would you like to tell people who call the front desk? Either a helpful instruction or a polite request or a stern warning. Whatever. What should they know before they dial?
3:13 PM chelsey.plumlee: It’s always helpful if they know exactly who they need to talk to! But really I can handle whatever they’ve got. We get some strange calls and with a little patience I can absolutely help them.
3:19 PM me: Solid. Glad to have you manning (womanning?) the front gate. Welcome to D.
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Another one to file under “Who gives a s@#t?”
THANKS FOR READING SAMMY!!!!!
post is worthless without pics
Ok, now I’ll start calling instead of just posting here.
Don’t assume someone who comments read the entire posting. I made it to 2:53 then got bored.
Tim’s comedic skills are as awesome as he is.
Has Tim determined which fruit he would be ? I’d guess it’s hard for him to narrow it down.