Baby you can ring my bell
Unless you're UAE Labour Minister Dr Al Kaabi. Ministry employees have clearly heeded earlier advice and now have a near-perfect success rate in not answering calls:
DUBAI — Believe it or not, calls made by the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Dr Ali bin Abdullah Al Kaabi, to his own office went unanswered, not once but several times yesterday, exposing the indifferent attitude of the telephone operators at the ministry.
In a worrying display of cunning, Dr Al Kaabi then rang up a Ministry employee on her mobile, and she answered immediately:
"An infuriated minister asked the staff as to why she did not attend to the landline call, to which she coolly claimed that the instrument did not ring at all, and that there was some technical problem."
Dear oh dear. Labour Ministry employees still have some way to go to safely achieve maximum inertia. Some further tips:
1. Don't answer your mobile during the working day (unless it's an urgent call from your dealer). Let it ring out, then call it back five minutes later and say you were in the bathroom.
2. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the day. If the person at the other end becomes irate/suspicious, claim you have irritable bowel syndrome and resign on full sick pay, suing for emotional damages and harassment.
3. Don't claim you have a "technical problem" unless you have actually properly created one. If your nail scissors won't cut through the phone chord, try pouring boiling qahwa into the receiver.
Follow this advice, and hopefully the Ministry will be back to 100% incompetency by the start of next week.
DUBAI — Believe it or not, calls made by the Minister of Labour and Social Affairs, Dr Ali bin Abdullah Al Kaabi, to his own office went unanswered, not once but several times yesterday, exposing the indifferent attitude of the telephone operators at the ministry.
In a worrying display of cunning, Dr Al Kaabi then rang up a Ministry employee on her mobile, and she answered immediately:
"An infuriated minister asked the staff as to why she did not attend to the landline call, to which she coolly claimed that the instrument did not ring at all, and that there was some technical problem."
Dear oh dear. Labour Ministry employees still have some way to go to safely achieve maximum inertia. Some further tips:
1. Don't answer your mobile during the working day (unless it's an urgent call from your dealer). Let it ring out, then call it back five minutes later and say you were in the bathroom.
2. Rinse and repeat for the rest of the day. If the person at the other end becomes irate/suspicious, claim you have irritable bowel syndrome and resign on full sick pay, suing for emotional damages and harassment.
3. Don't claim you have a "technical problem" unless you have actually properly created one. If your nail scissors won't cut through the phone chord, try pouring boiling qahwa into the receiver.
Follow this advice, and hopefully the Ministry will be back to 100% incompetency by the start of next week.
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6 Comments:
this is typical of the region. Operators (esp of a particular nationality) will be filing nails but ignore that phone ringing like crazy. How about having a conscience? This problem can easily be fixed, as it was done for a well known real estate company. Get your calls redirected to a call center.
cg - it's ok, I'll do the ad for you.
Wanted: A life. Don't mind if it's a bit soiled, just need one pronto.
:)
Regarding the calls - since when is it polite and professional to answer the phone (when the can be bothered) with - 'EEEHHH!' or , 'AAAHHHLOOOO'
_sublime_ it is also illegal, and highly innapropriate for many purposes due to its usually + 1 second response times.
and you'll need a huge dish on your roof to use it.
sorrydubai.blogspot.com has been blocked!!??!
Wheres the ranting and raving
Wheres the ranting and raving
See UAE community blog. We've also got a story about it in 7Days.
it was time someone bust their assess. the ministry divisions are awful with the response time and the way they keep bumping u onto different people.
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