Phone calls with students are bad for your health

I love my job, I really do. 99% of my job is amazing. What is that 1% that you loathe you ask? Phone calls!!

I have to call 250+ accepted high school seniors, most with entitlement issues who make comments like "uh yeah I got your email and I haven't made a decision yet" or ones that are FULL of awkward pauses until they finally tell me PLNU really wasn't their number one choice like their application said. LIARS! (juuuuust kidding! One less person to chat with who doesn't care)

As much as I hate these phone calls, the BEST ones *insert sarcasm here* are when clueless students call in and have "questions" for you.

Actual dialog with a student today:

Caller: "um yeah hi this is *unintelligible*, can I apply?"

Me: "Great question! What are you looking to apply for?"

Caller: "uh PLNU"

Me: "*chuckle* Well I figured that much, when are you looking to apply I guess I should have asked"

Caller: "uh now" *insert attitude*

Me: *Eye roll* "What term is what I'm looking for"

Caller: "um the next one" *insert more attitude*

This is when I literally put my head on my desk and closed my eyes. I then regurgitated the deadlines and asked if they had any questions, to which they ("uh no") didn't have any.

Don't read what I'm not saying. I do love my job, I just hate clueless students.

Until next awesome phone call...