Posted on 09/29/2015 11:04:37 AM PDT by nickcarraway
The saga of this city worker is a gift that keeps on giving: Despite receiving a 20-day suspension last year for mimicking a robot while answering IT calls to the Department of Health's help desk, employee Ronald Dillon is about to be disciplined once again for talking to customers like a droid.
Dillon will likely be put on 30-day unpaid leave after he overrode supervisors' orders to stop impersonating a machine, which the judge who presided over Dillon's hearing described as "a slow, stilted and monotonous voice."
Dillon was also censured for not responding to customer-service requests and purposefully misdirecting calls. The judge noted that it appeared as if Dillon, who had been working for the Department of Health since 1976 and has an MBA, believed his qualifications made him superior to his job as a help-desk drone, which explained some of his antics. But the last time Dillon was accused of doing his best AI impression, the city worker claimed he was only trying to make his voice "atonal" because his superiors objected to the sound of his regular-person and Brooklyn-accented voice. Here is a clip, thanks to DNAinfo, of Dillon using robot speak and then breaking character, so you can decide which works better — man versus machine.
Do androids dream of electric bureaucrats?
Isn’t he just acting his part as a cog inthe giant government machine?
give the man a medal for being honest about it
He’s getting the publicity he wants.
He should be fired instead.
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He’s transrobotic. This is discrimination.
Sounds like a hoot! Lotdsa fun! The guy is funny!
Later
Hi. is there a backstory to this? Sounds interesting. I hope I dont hijack the thread.
I listened to the clip. It sounds like a normal voice to me.
I used to work as a supervisor for a help desk, and one of the staff was doing this too. It was brought to my attention and I talked to him. He denied it and challenged me to prove it. I did, by sitting and listening to and documenting his calls for half a day. I fired him, and that is what this company should have done to Mr. Roboto. They would have been rid of their problem, and Dillon would have been robbed of his 15 minutes of fame.
Obsessive-compulsive is a pretty compelling force. If the rituals are not performed in exactly the right order, then the whole mental construct goes awry.
“That-does-not-compute.”
“Danger-Will-Rob-in-son-danger.”
Google up walmart shane. There are a bunch of funny whiteboard comments to shane like this. Shane supposedly is a deli guy at a walmart, I doubt it’s real, but I don’t know.
Ugh...
The 213 things Skippy is no longer allowed to do in the U.S. Army
That’s way funnier than the subject of this thread!
Skippy rocked!
Does this story qualify for your “DANG!” list?
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