GotVoice Grabs “The Call” - Turns School Official’s Wife into an Avatar
We’ve created an avatar for the school official’s wife. We don’t know the whole story, but we really don’t think it’s cool when adults rip into students. Plus, this popular clip, complete with CNN coverage of the YouTube post, serves as a great GotVoice Avatar example. Here it is with full transcription:
| Voicemail Text “This is Candy Tistadt, Dean Tistadt’s wife. This message is for Dave Kori. How dare you call us at home?! If you’ve got a problem with going to school, you do not call somebody’s house and complain about it. My husband was up at 4 o’clock this morning, trying to decide the best thing to do, to send you to school, on a day when the weather man is calling for one thing and another thing happens. You don’t begin to know what you are talking about, and don’t you ever call here again! My husband has been at the office since 6:30 this morning, so don’t you even suggest that he purposely didn’t answer his phone. He is out almost every single night of the week at meetings for snotty-nosed little brats, and he may not have called you but it is not because he’s home because it snowed. Get over it kid, and go to school. Get an education, that’s what you’re there for.” |
Here’s the recap of the story of Cindy Tistadt vs Dave Kori that led to that clip, according to DCist.com
If you caught the morning network news shows or read this Washington Post storydetailing the whole affair, then you may already know the story of Devraj “Dave” S. Kori, a senior at Lake Braddock Secondary School in Fairfax County, who called the school system’s administrator at home last week to give him a hard time about not declaring a snow day. Kori found a number for Dean Tistadt, chief operating officer for the county system, listed in the phone book, and decided to call to ask why he had not closed the schools after about three inches of snow fell near Burke, Va. What he got in return was an angry voicemail, posted to YouTube, from Tistadt’s wife.
Now, no matter whether you think the kid or the wife is right, here are some interesting points.
- If Mr. Kori had GotVoice, he would have been able to just forward the file as an MP3, rather than make his own recording.
- If Mrs. Tistadt had GotVoice, she would have an MP3 recording of Mr. Kori’s call to play as a rebuttal.
To show our neutrality, we are offering both Mrs. Tistadt and Mr. Kori free GotVoice subscriptions. Please email us and we’ll activate your accounts right away.