Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Unable to Work a Phone System

 OK so today I get yet another job offer from a yet another idiot Indian recruiter. In their signature they have:

Thanks & Regards,
Shivani konda
IT Recruiter
USM BUSINESS SYSTEMS
14175 Sully field Cir, #400, Chantilly, VA 20151
Office: 571-616-0223
shivanik@usmsystems.com   www.usmsystems.com

 So I call the number and get, "The number you have dialed is not in service at this time" and a  hangup. Hmmm... Doing business and their phone number doesn't work?

So I got to usmsystems.com and look up a contact number - https://usmsystems.com/contact-us/#. Now if you hover over Chantilly you'll see the phone number, but you can't select it to put it into your clipboard so you can paste it into stay Google Voice and dial the number. If you click it it refreshes the page, probably just setting the Contact Us form to Chantilly. So you can bring up another window so as to copy down the phone number but as soon as your mouse exists the browser tab the thing closes so you can't see it while you copy it by hand. Ugh!

Anyway, when I finally call the number you have the common voice mail tree which says "Dial 1 for directory, 2 for sales, 3 for payroll, 4 invoices, 5 contracts, 6 HR, 7 immigration, 8 job postings or 0 for operator". However if you type any of those numbers you are greeted with "You've made an invalid selection"!

What is with it with businesses today in that they can't seem to work a phone system? I've had many times when I've tried to leave a message and I get "Voicemail box full". Excuse me?!? Back in the day we could fill a voicemail box because we were using cassette tapes. Nowadays aren't we using disk storage. How full are your filesystems if you can fill a voicemail box?!?