So if any of you are like me, you have been really jumpy the past 24 hours whenever your phone rings. I figured I'd share a story with all of you to provide a laugh to ease some of the tension. Yesterday I was at work and I had a customer at my desk to review a fraud issue on their account. At one point as this individual is realizing how bad this fraud case really is my phone rings. It's a number I did not recognize but it said it was from Leavenworth, Kansas; I live in Lawrence, Kansas. I was unable to answer the phone since I was with a customer, but when I saw that number my heart rate shot through the roof. As we all know, the sooner you get the phone call the more likely the news you will receive will be good. I thought it was odd I would be getting a phone call from that area since 1) I have my recruiters number saved and 2) my recruiter is based in Kansas City, Missouri at the Naval building there. But Leavenworth has a major base there so I figured maybe he was in that area. Once the customer had left my desk, I stepped away to return the phone call from the unknown number. I'm standing at the landing on the stairs down to the break room literally sweating and my heart feeling like its about to explode from my chest as I'm calling this number. It rings once, picks up, AND IS A ROBO CALL NUMBER FOR A CREDIT CARD COMPANY. You can all understand my annoyance and frustration from here. My boss later tells me he could hear me yelling expletives in his office in the bank while I was in the basement of my building. I figured y'all would like that.
Hang tight, ladies and gents. We're in the home stretch.