Voice-mail Gone Wrong

"One morning while I recorded my daily voice mail greeting, my wife Juanita was folding clothes in the laundry room across the hall. My six-year-old daughter Emily had just taken a shower upstairs and could not find the clothes she wanted to wear.

She came downstairs draped in nothing but a towel. When Juanita saw her, she said in a loud, giggly female voice, “Look at you. You have no clothes on.” After several colleagues commented with a chuckle about my voice mail greeting, I listened to it and this is what I heard:

Male Voice: This is Jeff Hill with IBM Global Employee Research
Giggly Female Voice: Look at you. You have no clothes on.
Male Voice: I’m not available right now . . . ."

(Wall Street Journal, 24 September 1997, B1) E. Jeffrey Hill, Ph.D., BYU School of Family Life