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Speak. Clearly. On. The. Phone.

Seriously.

I get several phone calls every day at work from people who sound like they might be retarded somehow because I can’t understand a word they say due to how poorly they enunciate when they’re speaking. I think the majority of you are already familiar with my disdain for talking on the phone in general, but when I have to try to decipher what you’re saying, it makes it much, much worse. Like justifiable-stabbing worse.

Actually, it’s not just on the phone. I don’t have to deal with it anymore, but there were several times during one of my stints as an employee in the retail industry in which I would have some slack-jawed asshat ask me or tell me something and I would have no idea what they just said. It’s ridiculous. One guy in particular stands out in my mind; I was working at Circuit City in Bloomington and he asked me a question about a computer. I had to ask him three times to repeat himself on the first question and had to make the same request multiple other times throughout the conversation. It was one of those times where I would have gladly foregone any possible commission just to avoid dealing with someone.

So stop being lazy speakers. Corky and I thank you in advance for your cooperation.