It’s a particular “the place are you now?” season at Ask a Supervisor and I’m operating updates from individuals who had their letters right here answered previously.
There might be extra posts than standard this week, so hold checking again all through the day.
So first, thanks for answering my query! Sadly, it was posted on what turned out to be a really busy day of a fair busier week, so I wasn’t in a position to work together with the feedback, although I did learn all of them. I’ll begin with the replace after which tackle a couple of different issues:
I wasn’t there when my boss and the one who oversees interns met with our intern to debate the incident, however I used to be instructed he appeared very shocked and stated he didn’t have something to do with the prank name. We determined to take him at his phrase. Like I stated, he didn’t actually appear the kind, and I do know expertise has superior to date nowadays that I don’t need to bounce to the worst conclusion at the price of hurting somebody who truly is harmless. Did he secretly pull a quick one on all of us? Perhaps, however his internship glided by with out additional incident so at worst he was responsible however realized his lesson (or a minimum of realized about caller ID). He did additionally apologize to me for the incident, and he appeared honest. On the finish of his internship he additionally thanked me for taking day out of my schedule to show him and discover initiatives for him, so I’m actually glad both approach that he was in a position to see his internship by means of!
Just some notes:
First, whereas in my unique letter I expressed some annoyance from an employer perspective, from a private perspective I believed it was hilarious. My division was laughing a lot on the voicemail that a few other people came to visit to see what was occurring and likewise discovered it amusing. I’ve saved the message for future laughs.
Second, I’ll say as soon as I acquired dwelling and performed the voicemail for my husband on my mobile phone (versus my work cellphone) it was way more apparent to me that the “girl” was clearly a younger man attempting to placed on an outdated girl voice. He wasn’t doing too unhealthy both (although he did waver a bit between a New York/New Jersey accent and a southern drawl at one level, so he must work on his dialects).
Third, there was some dialogue about what identify the pranker needed to call our theater. Sorry to disappoint, however this wasn’t a Seymour Butz or Amanda Huginkiss state of affairs. The identify was only a common identify. In reality, we came upon it was the true identify of a pair who is outwardly very philanthropic in a bigger close by metropolis. That is one factor that made the prank much less humorous because it lent some credibility to the state of affairs. Clearly we’d by no means transfer ahead assuming this was an actual pledge with out needed paperwork, nevertheless it nonetheless may have had a detrimental influence on us or the couple in query.
Fourth, somebody within the feedback identified that I had made an error in calling $7 million a six-figure present moderately than a seven-figure present. That was a mistake on my half (what can I say, I used to be a bit tipsy that afternoon…)
Lastly, if anybody is , here’s a full transcript of the prank cellphone name (together with a bit on the finish the place the caller “forgot” to hold up). The names have been modified to guard the harmless (and the responsible):
“[starting off with a NY/NJ type accent] Hello (my identify), yeah, hello, that is Prudence. I used to be instructed this was the proper quantity to name. My husband and I are hoping to donate 7 million {dollars} to The Theater, um, and are all for identify recognition. May you give this quantity a name again to debate the potential for donating many hundreds of thousands of {dollars}? Uh, I’m … I’d adore it to be named the Prudence Snooter … Prudence and Wakeen Snooter Theater. And if that’s extra like 12 or 15 million, [dipping into a southern drawl] my husband and I’d have an interest. May you simply give this quantity a name again? Thanks.
[back into the NY/NJ accent, in the distance] Wakeen, I simply referred to as The Theater … I referred to as ‘em … Wakeen get off the bathroom, I referred to as The Theater. How a lot cash are you keen to offer them? 15? 14 million? That’s what I instructed the woman on the cellphone … she didn’t reply … oh gawd, it’s nonetheless recording … oh gawd.”