Phone Tap: My Voicemails Gone Loco

Working IT leads to some of the same boring issues coming up over and over again. But in today’s Phone Tap were starting problems that no IT person has ever heard of in their life!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Don't you feel like it. Workers have to deal with
the most boring problems every.

Speaker 2 (00:04):
Day, and all they need to do is turn something
off and turn it back on again.

Speaker 1 (00:08):
Make them You could imagine the monotony of constantly working
on hard drives and software, dual processor firewalls, on binary iOS.
I don't know. I don't know. Obviously, I'm not a
tech person. I have no clue what I'm talking about.
But I do know this. If your job ever gets stale,
reach out to us and we can add a little

(00:30):
bit of excitement to your day with a prank, like
we did to one lady who works in it. You're
gonna hear it. Your phone tap right now.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
Another tech Supportasha, Hi Tasha.

Speaker 1 (00:45):
My name is Logan. I just started working here a
couple of days ago. Nice to meet you.

Speaker 2 (00:51):
By the way, Hi Logan, nice to meet you as well.
What can I help you with?

Speaker 1 (00:55):
Yeah, so I'm having some issues setting up my voicemail
on my desk phone. That's why I'm calling for my
cell phone right now. Okay, just can't figure it out.

Speaker 2 (01:06):
Yeah, that's not a problem. Could you be a little
more specific with your issue?

Speaker 1 (01:11):
Uh? Yeah, I think that maybe the best way is
to just like show you what the problem is. Okay,
hold on and listen.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
Please record your outgoing message at the tone.

Speaker 1 (01:26):
Hi, you've reached logan. I'm not available. Please leave a
message and I'll get back to you as soon as
I can. Did you hear that I did? Yep, it
felt normal to me.

Speaker 2 (01:38):
It sounded normal on my end.

Speaker 1 (01:40):
Right, But then listen to.

Speaker 3 (01:41):
This to review your message.

Speaker 1 (01:43):
Press too, Hey, you reach low lower whatever. I'm not
available right now. I'm cruising the streets for ladies.

Speaker 2 (01:52):
So to get back to me and like I'll try
to text you or like call you back or whatever.

Speaker 1 (01:59):
See what was that? I know, I think it like
translated what I said into Spanish.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
That wasn't really Spanish, so.

Speaker 1 (02:07):
Or something close to it.

Speaker 2 (02:09):
I've worked here for six years and I've set up
a lot of voicemails and this has never happened. This
is this is the first.

Speaker 1 (02:16):
Well I don't know what to say. It is happening,
and it's making me look really bad. If a message
like that went out like I can't have that.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Well, yeah, of course, right.

Speaker 1 (02:25):
So I don't really know what to do. Well, maybe
let me try it again, because it could be the
switch on the side that I just saw. Maybe it's
like a language setting thing if I if I hit it, okay.

Speaker 3 (02:35):
So please record your outgoing message at the tone.

Speaker 1 (02:40):
Hey, this is Logan. I'm not in right now. Am
either on a work call or grabbing some lunch, but
I'll be back to return your call. Make sure that
you have a happy day.

Speaker 2 (02:51):
So okay, So I'm going to be listening to your voicemail.
We actually have a que of dollars that also need
tech support.

Speaker 1 (02:57):
So well, hopefully the switch that I have it fixed
it love. Let me just play it back.

Speaker 3 (03:01):
To review your message press too.

Speaker 1 (03:05):
Hey this is Lowrider. I'm not in right now. I'll
probably tell you I'm on a work all, but really
I'm not a food truck man like wet great Socles.
I got a couple of surveys. That's okay, because I'm
on a lunch break or whatever.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
You're making that voice, aren't you. No, that's not possible.

Speaker 1 (03:23):
I wouldn't even know how to make that voice if
I tried.

Speaker 2 (03:26):
Well, it's not a machine doing it, Okay, it's not
the software.

Speaker 1 (03:29):
Is it like possible that it's like a new AI
feature or something. No, there's it was like uploaded somehow.

Speaker 2 (03:35):
There's absolutely no AI feature that would produce that.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
Well, this is frustrating because I've been doing this for
a while. I guess I could try one more thing
because there's this lever on the back. No, no, no, we
don't just gonna try and flip it.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
I don't need to know. Please do not try it again.
I don't need to hear that.

Speaker 3 (03:50):
Please before your outgoing message at the tone.

Speaker 1 (03:53):
I'm just gonna try it real quick. Test one two.
This is Logan. This is Logan in the house.

Speaker 2 (04:01):
Okay, Logan. I don't need you to do this. I
already told you. I don't know to hear you do
another test or anything.

Speaker 1 (04:07):
Well, I'm pretty sure that I fixed it.

Speaker 2 (04:09):
No, that's doubtful. I don't think anything's fixed.

Speaker 1 (04:12):
Here because there was a setting on the top of
the console I hit here. Let me let me play
it back now.

Speaker 3 (04:16):
I'm review your message press to oh.

Speaker 2 (04:18):
My god, target.

Speaker 1 (04:27):
Okay, I thought that it would work.

Speaker 2 (04:29):
You're putting me on. I'm I'm going to come down
there because right now there's no way that this is
real and you need to stop erting my time.

Speaker 1 (04:35):
Yeah, you're right, it's fine. Just meet us down at
the Brook and Jeffrey studios because it's where we're doing
this prank phone call from.

Speaker 2 (04:41):
So are you serious?

Speaker 1 (04:44):
Yeah, you're actually on the radio right now with a
show called Brook and Jeffrey in the Morning.

Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh my god, this is on the radio.

Speaker 1 (04:52):
Your coworker and manager just set you up because she
said you had a stressful few weeks at your job
and she just wanted to make you laugh. Hey, how
much did you laugh? Because I the call, you seem
pretty upset, like I didn't hear any actors aware. That's
my co worker, Jose. He helped me do this.

Speaker 2 (05:06):
Oh that's amazing. I thought it was just you. I
thought it was one person doing anything.

Speaker 1 (05:12):
No, No, Jose does the voices. If you need your
voicemail re recorded for work, I'm really good at it.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (05:18):
Hey, this is Tasha. Like call me when I'm finished
with my launch or whatever. So professional wake up.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
Every morning was phone taps weekday mornings on the twenties
Brooke and Jeffrey in the Morning