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Anonymous asked
IE Ironflint: working phones. Preferably George's interest in Alex's phone mannerisms. How does Alex change his voice depending on who's calling? What's their call script? What's the most out-there thing they've done while Alex is rolling calls? Does Alex keep one line open just to talk dirty to George between calls..????
i have had this ask open for a long time under the optimistic delusion that i will write it. the fact of the matter is i probably will not but i really WANT to. and really here is the why:
i don’t really know what “working phones” is like. what is rolling calls? i have never done it, and actually i’ve never worked in a call center, or been a high-powered executive assistant. maybe if you can explain this concept to me more i can answer it. is this something EAs do? should alex do it? is this like being an annoying shit-ass fucking fuck marketer that just calls offices over and over again (fuck you guys!)?
because if this is like “alex is a fucking marketer,” then i’m pretty sure washington can make a better use of that brain than calling people, 90% of who will not help him out. or is this like “alex needs to schedule an appointment”? i honestly don’t know.
alex definitely phone-sexes and sexts george though. i do want to go on record as saying that’s canon. (he especially does it when he’s trolling craigslist to make george jealous.)
Anonymous asked
Wow, wait, for real??? I kind of just spat the rolling calls rant into your inbox because I'm both frightened and intrigued by the Assistant Culture of my workplace (moreso now that I might join it soon...). I'm mad excited that you were interested in it!!! -Rolling Calls Anon, who was very happy to read that post after a very bad day
OH GREAT YOU’RE HERE THAT MAKES ME HAPPY.
i also happy this brightened your day. so i will talk about a little more of what i’ve thought about… as you indicated in your original ask that i summed up - that’s here if you have no idea what is going on – it’s a super big complicated question and it has implications for all kinds of things so i sort have have played with all kinds of things … but if you follow this pickle blog you’ll probably see that stories of various depth occur … not sure where this one is. so consider.
- dude has a different headset every week. some of those tiny bluetooth ones you can’t even see in a dude’s ear, some over his head … he thinks the over his head ones look SO fucking stupid.
- definitely him listening in on calls all the time … even when he’s not supposed to .. but this isn’t a fight washington cares enough about … give the man his fake power whatever
- i can imagine when he was hired, he was given some flunkies - maybe it was a 3 person job and first it was “two other people teach alex” but then it was “alex sort of assigns them things because he always ends up having done a thing” and then it was “they are let go because … alex did a thing” .. maybe that’s how it goes
- also alex would LOVE this power of being able to decide who spoke to washington and when. just utterly RELISH it. that’s the kind of control he loves.
- if you cold call alex with your shitty marketing pitches he will waste your time for hours out of spite - he keeps a running tally - dude he will ask you the most BULLSHIT questions.
- also alex would be frustrated when he didn’t have access to what he needs … like (this occured at my office today) if normally you’d probably just request some dataset from your engineers or product managers but … this is alex hamilton and THIS alex hamilton….. eventually the engineers would just fucking throw the O’Reilly How To Query With SQL book at him and then he’d start doing that shit himself.
imagining him being on some call and as washington and x are talking just writing down every question and possible answer he has for it.
i bet alex records of a lot of calls with zero regard for two-party-record-knowledge state laws … that way he can come back and match his information to the transcript. washington has some way to tell him to cut this out .. .he probably usually doesn’t.
(consider alex being on the call and listening to washington talk about something and him idly jacking off to washington’s voice.)
consider: them talking about something, alex’s phone rings, it’ ssomeone they don’t like, so alex is like just on the phone with this guy being a dick and washington does kind of enjoy it in his fucked up way.
so there’s some random shit that will hopefully improve your day even more. maybe this will actually be a story at some point? i have zero idea. but it’s still a great concept. i want it to be something.
Anonymous asked
EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Yeah so that was all fucking amazing. I have to go to bed but YES. All of it, millions of headpieces, poor fired previous assistants, teaching himself the data stuff it's alL SO GOOD
good morning!
like if you’re one of washington’s old assistants, it’s a hard job, but it’s fair, like, it’s what you do, and you can’t beat the perks right?
but then he hires like THIS whackjob. and like, wow, dude. like …. literally Stop For One Second? and no, there was even a whole song about it. and i bet like they go out for drinks with alex, and the thing about alex is is - when you meet him you’re like “he’s kind of intense but also a cool guy” and basically the longer you know him, the more you’re like “wow…this dude has Problems.” so i’m sure that happens.
and like one day guy 2 like starts working on, i don’t know, some conference organization but alex is like “oh i already did that. and all these other things you usually do.” and guy 2 is like “ ????”
stuff like that. anyway i do like this idea a lot. as you can see!
Anonymous asked
IE Ironflint: working phones. Preferably George's interest in Alex's phone mannerisms. How does Alex change his voice depending on who's calling? What's their call script? What's the most out-there thing they've done while Alex is rolling calls? Does Alex keep one line open just to talk dirty to George between calls..????
i have had this ask open for a long time under the optimistic delusion that i will write it. the fact of the matter is i probably will not but i really WANT to. and really here is the why:
i don’t really know what “working phones” is like. what is rolling calls? i have never done it, and actually i’ve never worked in a call center, or been a high-powered executive assistant. maybe if you can explain this concept to me more i can answer it. is this something EAs do? should alex do it? is this like being an annoying shit-ass fucking fuck marketer that just calls offices over and over again (fuck you guys!)?
because if this is like “alex is a fucking marketer,” then i’m pretty sure washington can make a better use of that brain than calling people, 90% of who will not help him out. or is this like “alex needs to schedule an appointment”? i honestly don’t know.
alex definitely phone-sexes and sexts george though. i do want to go on record as saying that’s canon. (he especially does it when he’s trolling craigslist to make george jealous.)
Anonymous asked
Wow, wait, for real??? I kind of just spat the rolling calls rant into your inbox because I'm both frightened and intrigued by the Assistant Culture of my workplace (moreso now that I might join it soon...). I'm mad excited that you were interested in it!!! -Rolling Calls Anon, who was very happy to read that post after a very bad day
OH GREAT YOU’RE HERE THAT MAKES ME HAPPY.
i also happy this brightened your day. so i will talk about a little more of what i’ve thought about… as you indicated in your original ask that i summed up - that’s here if you have no idea what is going on – it’s a super big complicated question and it has implications for all kinds of things so i sort have have played with all kinds of things … but if you follow this pickle blog you’ll probably see that stories of various depth occur … not sure where this one is. so consider.
- dude has a different headset every week. some of those tiny bluetooth ones you can’t even see in a dude’s ear, some over his head … he thinks the over his head ones look SO fucking stupid.
- definitely him listening in on calls all the time … even when he’s not supposed to .. but this isn’t a fight washington cares enough about … give the man his fake power whatever
- i can imagine when he was hired, he was given some flunkies - maybe it was a 3 person job and first it was “two other people teach alex” but then it was “alex sort of assigns them things because he always ends up having done a thing” and then it was “they are let go because … alex did a thing” .. maybe that’s how it goes
- also alex would LOVE this power of being able to decide who spoke to washington and when. just utterly RELISH it. that’s the kind of control he loves.
- if you cold call alex with your shitty marketing pitches he will waste your time for hours out of spite - he keeps a running tally - dude he will ask you the most BULLSHIT questions.
- also alex would be frustrated when he didn’t have access to what he needs … like (this occured at my office today) if normally you’d probably just request some dataset from your engineers or product managers but … this is alex hamilton and THIS alex hamilton….. eventually the engineers would just fucking throw the O’Reilly How To Query With SQL book at him and then he’d start doing that shit himself.
imagining him being on some call and as washington and x are talking just writing down every question and possible answer he has for it.
i bet alex records of a lot of calls with zero regard for two-party-record-knowledge state laws … that way he can come back and match his information to the transcript. washington has some way to tell him to cut this out .. .he probably usually doesn’t.
(consider alex being on the call and listening to washington talk about something and him idly jacking off to washington’s voice.)
consider: them talking about something, alex’s phone rings, it’ ssomeone they don’t like, so alex is like just on the phone with this guy being a dick and washington does kind of enjoy it in his fucked up way.
so there’s some random shit that will hopefully improve your day even more. maybe this will actually be a story at some point? i have zero idea. but it’s still a great concept. i want it to be something.
Anonymous asked
EeeeeeEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Yeah so that was all fucking amazing. I have to go to bed but YES. All of it, millions of headpieces, poor fired previous assistants, teaching himself the data stuff it's alL SO GOOD
good morning!
like if you’re one of washington’s old assistants, it’s a hard job, but it’s fair, like, it’s what you do, and you can’t beat the perks right?
but then he hires like THIS whackjob. and like, wow, dude. like …. literally Stop For One Second? and no, there was even a whole song about it. and i bet like they go out for drinks with alex, and the thing about alex is is - when you meet him you’re like “he’s kind of intense but also a cool guy” and basically the longer you know him, the more you’re like “wow…this dude has Problems.” so i’m sure that happens.
and like one day guy 2 like starts working on, i don’t know, some conference organization but alex is like “oh i already did that. and all these other things you usually do.” and guy 2 is like “ ????”
stuff like that. anyway i do like this idea a lot. as you can see!