Hot Dogger
02-05-2020, 10:33 AM
This is old news but I just heard about it, news of the weird.
STORY EXCERPT: Ronald Dillon, a computer specialist for the agency’s IT help desk who assists co-workers and the public with tech-related problems, repeatedly channeled his inner Siri by talking in a "deliberately robotic fashion" when he fielded calls — despite his boss telling him to stop, according to an Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings decision. [...]
Dillon, with NYC's Health Department since 1976, was initially suspended for 20 days, then again about a year later. He said he uses a robot voice because he got complaints about his heavy Bronx accent. Yep, truth is stranger than fiction.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/new-york-man-suspended-impersonating-robot.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-health-department-worker-answers-phone-robot-voice-article-1.2378603
https://youtu.be/cgzVL_4ryXI
STORY EXCERPT: Ronald Dillon, a computer specialist for the agency’s IT help desk who assists co-workers and the public with tech-related problems, repeatedly channeled his inner Siri by talking in a "deliberately robotic fashion" when he fielded calls — despite his boss telling him to stop, according to an Office of Administrative Trials and Hearings decision. [...]
Dillon, with NYC's Health Department since 1976, was initially suspended for 20 days, then again about a year later. He said he uses a robot voice because he got complaints about his heavy Bronx accent. Yep, truth is stranger than fiction.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2014/10/new-york-man-suspended-impersonating-robot.html
https://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/nyc-health-department-worker-answers-phone-robot-voice-article-1.2378603
https://youtu.be/cgzVL_4ryXI