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April 12, 2007
In class our instructor mentioned several times that they fired one of the secretaries here. It would appear that there is a high demand for real estate assistants, as the offices where we are schooling have lots of ads, and seem to be advertising in local papers as well, in an attempt to find some good help.
They obviously haven’t heard of Craigslist, given that there probably aren’t five computers in the whole office.
I found all of this hilarious as he went into depth on why they fired the secretary. Apparently, no calls came to the offices for several days. Suspiciously, the real estate agents began to call their own office line, and received a busy signal. Turns out, the new secretary was using the internet…without realizing that the office uses an old-fashioned dial-up line for their internet connection AND their phones.
So they fired the secretary, who seems to have been the only net savvy one in the office. The poor girl probably didn’t even realize that the office phone line and the internet line were one and the same. I mean really who still has dial-up in their office? And on their main phone line at that!
And now they can’t figure out how to find another secretary to hire because no one knows how to use the internet.
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May 2nd, 2007 at 3:05 pm
That’s pretty funny. I don’t know how anyone can really hope to stay competitive without using the internet these days. Even if you work really well “offline” there are people doing the same work but more efficiently online, giving them more time to do even more work.
It’s all about leverage.
Now, if she was using the internet to IM her friends all day…