Monday, August 23, 2021

What is it with Rachel?

Spam calls are the social gnat of modern society.  An annoying nuisance about which all complain but in the scheme of things trivial.  An annoyance, not a wound.

One of the minimal blessings of the Covid-19 shutdown was a seeming hiatus in spam calls.  I don't know if it happened to everyone but certainly my experience has been pleasant.  Days and even weeks at a stretch without the mindless and fruitless interruption of spam calls.

And now they seem back.  As is Rachel.

Rachel was the unfortunate eponym of one such common spam call.

Hello.  This is Rachel from cardholder services . . . 

I don't remember whether she was selling credit ratings or scamming.  It was a call which after you received two or three, you forever after ignored and hung up immediately.

I just received a spam call and Rachel has been repurposed.

Hello.  This is Rachel.  Your car registration just crossed my desk and . . . 

Did she change jobs?  Take on a new assignment?  Get moved into a different product division?

Is she perhaps suffering some sort of existential dread.  After so many years as Rachel from cardholder services, it can't be easy to now be the same cheery Rachel of car registrations.  

All questions to which we probably can't know an answer.  Poor old Rachel.


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