Dialogue with my muse |
JOE: Good morning Calliope. CALLIOPE: Good morning Joe. How are you this morning? JOE: Busy as usual. Moving is in full swing, or at least preparation for it. CALLIOPE: What did you work on yesterday? JOE: Notifying everyone who needs to know about my move. CALLIOPE: How did that go? JOE: Many places seem to have gone to automated interaction. I find it most frustrating to deal with automatons and would prefer actual people. CALLIOPE: Technology isn't quite up to snuff in this area? JOE: Not as far as I'm concerned. The most frustrating was Social Security which wanted to know my favorite vacation spot which it insisted I have them before. After trying the Caribbean and Hawaii, I had only one more chance before I was in danger of not being able to communicate with them at all. CALLIOPE: How did you handle it? JOE: Logged off and finally found a live person to take action. After some frustration, I found a few people who handled my request very quickly and efficiently. CALLIOPE: So there was a happy ending? JOE: I'm not quite done yet and have a few people on my list for today. CALLIOPE: The rest of the day is for packing? JOE: It is. I'll talk with you tomorrow. |