The Center for Creative Entropy

[revchris]

Occasionally when I'm filling in address information online, I will be at a site that demands I give it a business name. If I'm surfing around for personal stuff, I'll list myself as being part of 'The Center for Creative Entropy.'

Today I got a call from some company calling on behalf of IBM Small Business Services:

her: "Is this The Creative Entropy Center?"
me: "Yup"
her: "What kind of business do you do?"
me: "Trouble."
her: "Like, computer problems?"
me: "No. We cause trouble, fix trouble, whatever we want. That's what entropy is."
her: "How many employees do you have?"
me: "None. We're all volunteers doing it for the fun of it."

She then decided that I wasn't the kind of business she wanted to talk to and said "Thank you. Have a nice day," and hung up.

Comments

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[revchris.livejournal.com]

Shouldn't every office have to decide (on, of course, a random schedule) what part of the planet it served? Then when you get a call, the first thing you have to do is check where your office serves, and see if they're calling the right office. Then, whether it is or not, you can, at random, transfer them to a different office, or choose to help them anyway.

"Oh, I'm sorry, this is the Uppoer Slovobodian office. Let me tranfer you to our tahiti branch where they might be able to help you." Then you tranfer them to the Australian office.

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[misteropinion.livejournal.com]

Sounds like we're going to need a web site with the tools on it.