So I called this one manufacturer, or rather their distributor.
It was outside business hours, but there was a mysterious message on the voicemail.
"Our business hours are 9 PM to 5 PM.
Please call back during business hours."
9 PM to 5 PM? I didn't mishear it.
What on earth is going on here?
There are three possible explanations.
Possibility 1: They're actually open during those hours
↑Like the diagram above. They'd be operating 20 hours a day, working through the night every single day.
With a three-shift rotation system this could be possible, but as far as I know, this distributor
doesn't have nearly enough staff to run that kind of schedule.
If they tried to force this, I think everyone would collapse from exhaustion pretty quick.
（I'll skip over the whole legal nightmare aspect.）
Possibility 2: Spacetime is warped
Taking the voicemail at face value, there's a possibility they're only
working from 9 PM back negative 4 hours.
The area around the distributor's location could be a singularity where time runs backward.
Upon entering the spacetime distortion, you'd have to walk backwards to get to work.
Printed documents would be continuously sucked into the printers and fax machines,
the text would be absorbed back into the ink tanks, and blank sheets of paper
would be neatly stacked up in organized piles.
During lunch break, food and rice would be neatly extracted from mouths back into empty bento boxes.
As for their work, I can't mention what they actually handle or they'd be identified, so
let's say they peel off clean handlebar tape and rewrap it with dirty tape
as an example.
Phone conversations would come out as reversed sound, every syllable read backwards.
It's hard enough to understand, and conveying what you want to say is extremely difficult too.
But seriously, I actually have real business I need to discuss.
Since they're always on voicemail, it's been driving me crazy.
Even if spacetime is warped, please just pick up the phone.
Possibility 3: They just misspoke and said 9 AM instead of 9 PM
But then why is the voicemail on even during 9 AM to 5 PM? Ugh, this is frustrating.
It was outside business hours, but there was a mysterious message on the voicemail.
"Our business hours are 9 PM to 5 PM.
Please call back during business hours."
9 PM to 5 PM? I didn't mishear it.
What on earth is going on here?
There are three possible explanations.
Possibility 1: They're actually open during those hours
↑Like the diagram above. They'd be operating 20 hours a day, working through the night every single day.
With a three-shift rotation system this could be possible, but as far as I know, this distributor
doesn't have nearly enough staff to run that kind of schedule.
If they tried to force this, I think everyone would collapse from exhaustion pretty quick.
（I'll skip over the whole legal nightmare aspect.）
Possibility 2: Spacetime is warped
Taking the voicemail at face value, there's a possibility they're only
working from 9 PM back negative 4 hours.
The area around the distributor's location could be a singularity where time runs backward.
Upon entering the spacetime distortion, you'd have to walk backwards to get to work.
Printed documents would be continuously sucked into the printers and fax machines,
the text would be absorbed back into the ink tanks, and blank sheets of paper
would be neatly stacked up in organized piles.
During lunch break, food and rice would be neatly extracted from mouths back into empty bento boxes.
As for their work, I can't mention what they actually handle or they'd be identified, so
let's say they peel off clean handlebar tape and rewrap it with dirty tape
as an example.
Phone conversations would come out as reversed sound, every syllable read backwards.
It's hard enough to understand, and conveying what you want to say is extremely difficult too.
But seriously, I actually have real business I need to discuss.
Since they're always on voicemail, it's been driving me crazy.
Even if spacetime is warped, please just pick up the phone.
Possibility 3: They just misspoke and said 9 AM instead of 9 PM
But then why is the voicemail on even during 9 AM to 5 PM? Ugh, this is frustrating.