Humour

Not really VOIP related, but telephony related.. Found in my backups and put here for historical purposes 🙂 A long time ago I worked at Staples. This was back when I was living in London, Ontario. Anyway, there was this guy that kept coming in and he’d constantly use our public phone to do his business. I’m pretty sure it was some shady business too, he would speak to his prospects and talk about meeting them on street corners and down alleys in the city....

Here’s one for you phone people: An elderly lady phoned her telephone company to report that her telephone failed to ring when her friends called – and that on the few occasions when it did ring, her pet dog always moaned right before the phone rang. The telephone repairman proceeded to the scene, curious to see this psychic dog or senile elderly lady. He climbed a nearby telephone pole, hooked in his...

Hello. Welcome to the Psychiatric Hotline. If you are obsessive-compulsive, please press 1 repeatedly. If you are co-dependent, ask someone to press 2 for you. If you have multiple personalities, please press 3, 4, 5, and 6. If you are delusional, press 7 and your call will be transferred to the mother ship. If you are paranoid-delusional, we know who you are and what you want. Please stay on the line until we can trace the call....

When I worked for this huge corporation at the desktop publisher desk, we used to have this guy who would come in, layout his lunch and use our courtesy phone to conduct business from. Needless to say, this wasn’t right. We kept asking him to leave, and he just kept coming back. Eventually I got tired of it, and decided to do something about it. Enter, the phone kill switch....