“If Wachovia employees had been given that messsage, we’d know about it. You don’t keep random bank employees quiet.
If there was a button push that accidentally connected to a not-yet-in-use emergency message, hundreds of people would have heard it, because they get thousands of calls, and people push the wrong buttons all the time.”
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Ok- then what does it mean? I’m sure she is not making this up.
I don’t know what it means. I can’t know truth here. I can only evaluate logically the possibilities.
My guess is that if there is some random button pushing, it isn’t a simple mis-hit of a number (for reason 2 I gave above). It seems logically that it would have to be something pretty unlikely.
However, there is another logical choice I ignored before — that this was a message to employees, but it was back in 2008. If so, even if some employee accidentally got it today, they’d know it was a mistake. The call center could have accidentally queued up the wrong message, and people could have reported it when talking to the live rep, and then they could have fixed it.
If I had heard a message like that, I would have certainly asked the person who I talked to live about it.
So anyway, my goal is not to credit or discredit the report — the truth or falsehood of the report is completely unknowable, unless we figure out how to hear it ourselves. I can only use logic to figure out what it could mean, and what it likely wasn’t.