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Subject: 
Re: Just for a verification.
Newsgroups: 
lugnet.market.shopping
Date: 
Tue, 25 Jan 2000 18:15:12 GMT
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In lugnet.market.shopping, Kevin Loch writes:
> A friend of a friend works at a Major Hotel's customer service
> center.  When someone asks to speak to the supervisor, they transfer
> it to the person next to them.  There's also a special phone on a table
> called the "president's" phone. When someone asks to speak to the
> president it rings and whoever is walking by knows to pick it up and
> pretend to be the president.
> 
> I believe this is standard operating procedure across the board these
> days.

Not so.  As the person to whom supervisor calls are transferred at my place of
business, I can tell you that at some places, at least, asking for a supervisor
gets you a supervisor.  Actually, it's been that way everywhere I've worked.

eric



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A friend of a friend works at a Major Hotel's customer service center. When someone asks to speak to the supervisor, they transfer it to the person next to them. There's also a special phone on a table called the "president's" phone. When someone (...) (27 years ago, 25-Jan-00, to lugnet.market.shopping)

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