City Employee Gets 30 Day Suspension For “Using Robot Voice” While Answering Phones

According to the New York Daily News, Ronald Dillon, a 67-year-old support desk tech in the IT Department at the New York City Health Department started answering his phone calls in a fake robot voice. People started complaining, and when he wouldn't stop, he got suspended for 20 days.

Now you'd think that would get him to give it up. But Ronald was bound and determined to stay in character. So earlier this year, he started answering calls in his robot voice once again. He claims it was to hide his thick Brooklyn accent, but nobody believed him. His bosses think he's sick of answering calls because he feels like he should be doing a more important job, and this is just his passive aggressive protest.

An administrative judge just gave him a 30 day suspension.

Source: New York Daily News