Hi Sean,
I suspect this is due to Max Wait is being measured on an interval and it's not set until a call is answered.
It doesn't measure that wait time for the current call, but the longest time any call have waited during the interval.
There's a beta on the new alerting interface, and in there you can select among other things a trigger on wait time for a single call, which does what you're looking for here.
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Jan Heinonen
Contact Center Specialist
GlobalConnect AB
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