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This was one of the strangest calls I've ever taken. As soon as I asked if I could help him, he uttered the line above. He wasn't raging in anger but he did sound frustrated. Now the name on the account was definitely Jewish sounding (think like Joseph Goldstein) but I was still perplexed as to what bearing the religion of the supervisor had on his issue.
He refused to to tell me. I told him I didn't think we had any Jewish supervisors. I honestly don't know, I don't know pry into the personal lives of my bosses that much. He then wanted me to ask around and see if I could find someone who was Jewish to take the call.
Finally, one of the MODs decided he'd pretend to be Jewish and take the guys call.
That didn't go well as our Jewish customer started quizzing the not actually Jewish supervisor about his religion, wanting to know the Synagogue he attended, who his Rabbi was how frequently he read the Torah and how many people were at his Bar Mitzvah.
As you might guess,since the supervisor wasn't actually Jewish, this is where the ruse fell apart. He couldn't answer the questions to the satisfaction of "Mr. Goldstein" who said he'd try again later in hopes of finding an actual Jewish supervisor.
Now understand something, I don't care whether someone is Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Black, Hispanic, Asian and so forth. What got me was not the particulars of the request but the oddness of the request. If he'd asked for a Muslim supervisor, I'd be equally puzzled.
On a related note, I did give the supervisor I passed to call to a hearty "Shalom!" when I left for work that day.
He refused to to tell me. I told him I didn't think we had any Jewish supervisors. I honestly don't know, I don't know pry into the personal lives of my bosses that much. He then wanted me to ask around and see if I could find someone who was Jewish to take the call.
Finally, one of the MODs decided he'd pretend to be Jewish and take the guys call.
That didn't go well as our Jewish customer started quizzing the not actually Jewish supervisor about his religion, wanting to know the Synagogue he attended, who his Rabbi was how frequently he read the Torah and how many people were at his Bar Mitzvah.
As you might guess,since the supervisor wasn't actually Jewish, this is where the ruse fell apart. He couldn't answer the questions to the satisfaction of "Mr. Goldstein" who said he'd try again later in hopes of finding an actual Jewish supervisor.
Now understand something, I don't care whether someone is Jewish, Christian, Hindu, Muslim, Black, Hispanic, Asian and so forth. What got me was not the particulars of the request but the oddness of the request. If he'd asked for a Muslim supervisor, I'd be equally puzzled.
On a related note, I did give the supervisor I passed to call to a hearty "Shalom!" when I left for work that day.
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