Must listen: We’ve found the real Bastard Operator From Hell

Nobody likes having to deal with cold calls to the office. But when you’re manning the IT help desk, you have no choice but to pick up the phone — even when it’s a pushy sales pitch.

So what to do about those annoying calls from over-enthusiastic sales staff itching to shift their technology wares? One spectacularly resourceful, and possibly sadistic, IT department has a solution: boot them all to Hell.

An IT boss — whose identity and employer we’re keeping anonymous, lest they be flooded with calls from people eager to experience it first-hand – explained to El Reg the story behind Extension 666 — via redwolf.newsvine.com