receptionist

The receptionist, as useful as the position may be, is not likely a revenue-generating source for the company.

Think front-desk receptionist where a computer is provided.

Let's say you are a developer making 70k and you know the receptionist makes at least the same.

Or the secure channel where the receptionist uses a 25 year old computer system to enter my SSN and scan my insurance card?

Call them, or just walk in, and chat to the receptionist.

Or how much more valuable you are than the receptionist.

I'm more valuable to my company as their key software developer than the receptionist.

I briefly worked at a company where the receptionist was seriously called that.

Automation could impact a few lots-of-employees job functions (such as driving cars, receptionist, and, err, my crystal ball has gone cloudy) and then stall.

It's much easier for me to find the ideal appointment time when I can put my schedule and the doctors schedule side-by-side as opposed to calling the receptionist.

-Forward landline to cell -Hire a receptionist -Use voicemail -Ignore the call I think voicemail would work for most situations.

If you suggest all of a sudden that I'm not any more valuable than the receptionist hired last month, you should rightly expect that I'd be a little pissed.

And I think that because I'm standing up, everybody who walks buy thinks that I am the receptionist for my entire work group: "Is Bill here today?

Beside that, the GitHub description reads "Open source Google Voice with Receptionist abilities, built on top of Twilio" - the last few words are missing in the HN title - and that makes it misleading.

"The ability to have your desk near the entrance to your office without visitors assuming you're the receptionist." Since the majority of receptionists are women (not all), it's pretty much not going to change until this changes.