out sourced by intelligent machine technology

out sourced by intelligent machine technology

fiction
edward w pritchard


Howie was meeting Wadsworth a new friend at the Summit Lounge for a drink in an hour and a half giving him easily time enough for a 45 minute session with a Mr. Tongit an 82 year old patient at a nursing facility a top the old Bell building on Euclid ave in downtown Cleveland. After the session since it was a nice evening  he could walk as he dictated his post session notes into his cellphone. Hopefully Howie could hand walk his recorded notes of the session tomorrow to the Colombus Insurance Group,  his client on this assignment and then get Tillie in accounts payable to give him a check for his $225 fee in time to pay his car insurance due to lapse three days hence.

Mr. Tongit's story had upset Howie the freelance psychologist and as he walked he was having trouble organizing his thoughts into a brief request for payment to Columbus Insurance.

Tongit had worked as a telemarketer his first job out of college 60 years past. 75 times per hour eight hours per day Tongit was required in his new telemarketing job to call people from a series of lists and pretend to be a recorded machine offering a prospective client for life insurance 12 cans of Campbell's soup if they would agree to have an agent into their home to review their need to purchase life insurance.

It took Howie only 13 minutes to complete his session with Tongit but Howie needed to beef up his post session notes if he was to receive a full fee from Columbus Insurance. What could you say about a man who stayed 51 years in a telemarketing job pretending to be a machine recorded voice 75  times per hour eight hours per day for his entire working career.