Stop Calling Me
I’m tired of sales calls, telemarketers, telephone surveys, and the like.
Caleb and I have been getting about a call a night from people asking our opinions. I also get about one call a week from the Red Cross asking me to donate.
To make matters worse, one of my primary responsibilities at work is to make sure the phone gets answered. I do have student workers that help me answer the phone but there only work about 20 hours a week; so I’ve got to answer the phone a bit. Unfortunately, at work we’ve been getting a lot of calls, too. Nobody ever wants to take these calls so most of the time they go to voice mail. Most don’t leave a voice mail they just call back. So when I can, I try to answer there questions to reduce the number of calls.
I just got off the phone with a person wanting to ask a few questions. She was soft spoken, had a thick accent, we’ve got a lot of ambient noise in the basement which means she was very hard to understand.
Why can’t people just leave me alone?
April 27th, 2006 at 7:58 am
Sign up for the no call list. Teh wif singed us up and the only call we ever get is from the state police fuchers. As soon as I hear them say “State Po…” I cut them off and say no and hang up.
bigtim
I think next tim I may tell them that Shawn Dooley is dead.
April 27th, 2006 at 8:46 am
He’s right! I signed up our work number. calls–
April 27th, 2006 at 3:19 pm
no call list doesn’t work for non-profits, and we had a non-profit call us, asking if they could give our name and info to a for profit company to call us…sneaky fuckers. then, stacey tells them no, but asks for their website so she can read more about it. apparently, the guy took it as a yes and gave them our info, so when they called and said, “you expressed interest…” i pranked them in the phone with a big eff you. also, it was some right wing fundamentalists no sex or fun in movies group
April 27th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
semi-related
I had to call teh phone company in teh haute becaues their line coming into teh hosue had fallen int he street. The bitch on the other end said they wouldn’t come ote to fix it because I didn’t have an account with them (no phone since everyone had moved ote).
I hung up and as I did so I said, “Fuckin’ bitch”.
Apparently though, I didn’t hang up, and I heard her yell, “WHAT?”
then I hung up fo real
April 27th, 2006 at 8:58 pm
I use Vonage and I haven’t had a single unsolicited call. EVER!
Check out Vonage - and if you let me refer you, we’ll both get free months!
April 28th, 2006 at 6:51 am
vonage costs more than our monthly phone service we have now.
April 28th, 2006 at 6:54 am
plus, caleb and i have decided to do without a traditional phone at the house.
also, my biggest complaint is about all of the calls i get at work.
April 28th, 2006 at 7:57 am
I wish I could get some calls at work. That would liven up the day.
Vonage sounds great, how well does it work with a dialup connection?
April 28th, 2006 at 8:31 am
We have a guy here at work who says he sexually harasses every female telemarketer that calls his house. Says after he asks about their underwear and inquires about their willingness to remove it, they hang up.
Dad - owning his own business and all - requests a credit card number from the caller before he lets them give their sales pitch. Since he charges customers by the hour to fix their cars, he feel that every minute wasted on the phone costs him $$. So, he says there’s a minimum $20 charge and then it’s $45/hr for the call. . . to which they also hang up.