A New Low For Telemarketers

[Ironclad Alibi]

It is open season for Medicare in the US. As usual the telemarketers have started calling to get me to enroll in their supplement Medicare plan. Always annoying, but it has become worse.

"How?" you may ask.

Well, they are no longer using live operators, having switched to some sort of AI (Annoying Intelligence) voice program. Talk about following a scrip.

I still hang up on them.

[RealUnimportant]

I got a robovoice call me yesterday while I was asleep, "your phone will be disconnected today". No, no it won't, but even if it is the only calls i'd be missing are ones like this. In the last couple of decades we've taken one of the best ways of communicating long distance and made it both ubiquitously common by putting it in everyone's pockets, and increasingly unusable because nobody wants to answer calls or read texts because so many of them are junk.

[taxguykarl]

With election season in full bloom, I don't even take calls from unfamiliar numbers. I used to demand that they honor the FTC's Do Not Call list and remove my number. That didn't slow them down, so I now block numbers.
Politicians are conveniently exempt from any phone restrictions

[MadMike]

With election season in full bloom, I don't even take calls from unfamiliar numbers.
Politicians are conveniently exempt from any phone restrictions

One more reason I'm glad I finally ditched my landline. I'm sure it would have been blowing up left and right by now, especially judging by the constant back-to-back campaign ads I keep seeing on TV. I'm going to have the mute button worn out by the time it's over.

[Pixilated]

I got a robovoice call me yesterday while I was asleep, "your phone will be disconnected today". No, no it won't, but even if it is the only calls i'd be missing are ones like this. *snip*.

If ever you pick up such a call, that would be the perfect retort before you hang up.

One more reason I'm glad I finally ditched my landline. I'm sure it would have been blowing up left and right by now, especially judging by the constant back-to-back campaign ads I keep seeing on TV. I'm going to have the mute button worn out by the time it's over.

Thankfully I live in Canada so am not getting the campaign ads. I still have a landline and always will ... I just don't answer it. My ISP includes an answering service. If the caller leaves a message, I will get back to them. When they don't, I go to my ISP's website and look up the number to see who it is. It's amazing how many calls I get from areas where I don't know anybody.

[EricKei]

I have my phone's voicemail greeting say words to the effect of, "If you don't leave a message, don't expect a call back."