Why am I talking to you then?
I don’t know if this counts here so feel free to delete, but I just spent 3 hours reading through these and I’ve had so many interactions with the same energy I thought I’d share
I work in data at a community college (Institutional Research, if people know what that is). It’s back office work, I don’t think I’ve ever had a reason to directly talk to a student.
My phone number is not on the website or anything. Again, there’s no reason a student would ever talk to me. But it must be posted somewhere because about once a month I get a call from a student or parent. Almost always, they ask for registration, I laugh and say I’m not registration but here’s their number, and they laugh and hang up
But a couple of months ago I had the weirdest interaction that these posts reminder me of so much. This lady called and asked about registering her son. I responded something like “oh sorry, this is institutional research, I can’t help with registration, but here’s their number.”
Instead of hanging up, she instead said “well why am I talking to you then?”
I laughed and said she must have gotten the wrong number. She responded “is this not [my college].”
“Oh yes, it is, but I don’t work in registration.”
“Well can you just help me?”
I explained again how I don’t work in registration but here’s their number.
“I just don’t understand why I keep calling people and no one can help me.”
I apologized and reiterated this wasnt something I could help with but registration would be happy to help I was sure.
She just angrily said “some people!” And hung up. Felt really bizarre. I’m realizing now I should have asked where she got my number because again, it’s not on the website I don’t think