{"id":160,"date":"2004-10-18T20:57:13","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T01:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/69.50.194.231\/~vqplgdbg\/?p=160"},"modified":"2004-10-18T20:57:13","modified_gmt":"2004-10-19T01:57:13","slug":"wait-for-the-beep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/?p=160","title":{"rendered":"wait for the beep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;our message has recently changed, so please listen carefully to the menu options. Para espanol, prensa uno. para ingles, prensa dos. To listen to your messages, please enter your seven digit telephone number, followed by the pound sign. To send a fax, press 9 and wait for the fax service to respond. To listen to this message again, press 1. To leave a message in the general mailbox, please hang up and dial 999-9999. To talk to a customer service representative, say &#8220;help&#8221; loudly and clearly into the phone, or press 334. Push 2 for the customer claims center, press 3 for the company events calendar, press 4 for the listing of parking places in the executive parking area. Press five to dial the extension you desire. If you do not know the extension of the person you desire, press 55 to dial by name, and press the telephone keys corresponding to the first four letters of the person&#8217;s last name. If you do not know the person&#8217;s last name, press 6 to dial using the person&#8217;s first name. For a list of all the executives, press 7. For all the single men under 40, press 8. If you are dialing from a rotary phone, please wait on the line until an operator can assist you. Operators are only available between the hours of 9 and 11 AM, and 2 and 3 PM, central standard time. At the tone, please record your message.   When you are done recording, press the pound sign, or wait on the line for further instructions. Messages may not exceed 30 seconds. Thank you for calling. Your business is important to us. Beeeeeeeeeeeep.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nWhat the hell happened to &#8220;beep&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>I spend orders of magnitude more time listening to menus than messages. This BS has got to stop.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;our message has recently changed, so please listen carefully to the menu options. Para espanol, prensa uno. para ingles, prensa dos. To listen to your messages, please enter your seven digit telephone number, followed by the pound sign. To send a fax, press 9 and wait for the fax service to respond. To listen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neanderpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}