07-11-2013, 09:32 AM
Genetk44 Wrote:...Are these people really that stupid that they ignore a paying flesh and blood customer standing 2-feet away from them in preference to a telephone inquiry?...That happened in the office multiple times a day. Colleagues without direct external customer contact pick up the ringing phone while I am talking face to face. Many people are so much attracted by a ringing phone they blind out the real world next to them. They wonder why I left their office and postponed their matter to be handled much later.
ps. All dive base staff in Egypt (nationwide average daily income $2) have a cellular phone. I had several times a hard time to get their attention to get the heavy tank from my back when I returned from a dive.
Reinhard