Don’t Try to Pull One Over the Master

Julio Montes, call center supervisor shares a lighthearted attempt to pull one over one him.

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I am one of those people that loves to play jokes on other people, but that doesn’t like to get jokes played on me. Don’t get me wrong though, I won’t be outdone… most of the time. Today, I had a caller who needed self storage in New Jersey; he was a college age young man. He apparently thought he was going to have a great crank call lined up for who ever he was calling, but unfortunately he got me. He was calling to see how much a storage space would cost to store 12 dead bodies. I heard some snickering in the background so I just went along with it. I doubled checked with him to make sure he said 12. Then I asked him how tall they were so I could make sure I had a unit long enough to hold them all. He told me they were 6 feet tall. He paused for a moment, told me to hang on, and then quickly hung up the phone.

That was probably the saddest attempt at a crank call I have ever heard. He needed some more gumption. That could have gone so much farther – asking about a climate control unit to cut down on the stench, making sure we had pest control so the bodies wouldn’t be taken over with critters. In all actuality, storage units wouldn’t be practical anyway. With 24-hour video camera surveillance, that leaves too many witnesses. So have fun with your crank callers. If they are going to be wasting your time, you might as well have fun!