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Posting this in sightings because, well, I saw my wife make the call 
Saturday, we started getting recorded phone calls from some sort of mortgage company. You know, one of those messages that say "call 800 whatever for an important update regarding your mortgage." First call comes through at about 9, I answer, and hang up pretty much straight away. We've gotten pretty used to getting these types of calls thanks to some moron who continuously gives out our number when applying to things and running up bills. Ignoring these things, or telling the folks on the other end that no, such and such doesn't live here usually makes them go away.
But this one was different. Every hour, on the hour this damn phone message kept calling up and being played for us. Irritating, certainly, but not the end of the world. My wife was pissed, though. I was playing Persona 4, and she enjoy watching (I'd make a crass joke about her being a voyeur, but as she doesn't read these boards it'd go wasted). So, she calls up the number that was given, and starts to explain that we're not a customer, that we don't want to be a customer, and that these calls have to stop.
And we do get them stopped - the second time we call. Because the first time, the guy who answered the phone just couldn't be bothered to deal with the issue presented to him. When she explained the situation, his first response was "if the calls aren't for you, just ignore them." This pissed her off more, but, being the wonderfully level headed individual she is, she doesn't overreact to assholes the same way I do. She just started, calmly saying that as they were coming in so often, we needed to get our number off the list. Mid-sentence, he says "hold on, I'll transfer you." And he did. To nowhere.
What pisses me off about this is, if I tried something like this, I'd be out on my damn ass faster than you could say something that doesn't take very long to say. And I can understand not wanting to be at work, but can you really give that little of a damn about someone calling in who's being incorrectly targetted for (probably) owing money?
Then I realize that I really shouldn't be so naive at this point in my life, sigh, and go back to saving Kanji. Least it got sorted in the end.
Saturday, we started getting recorded phone calls from some sort of mortgage company. You know, one of those messages that say "call 800 whatever for an important update regarding your mortgage." First call comes through at about 9, I answer, and hang up pretty much straight away. We've gotten pretty used to getting these types of calls thanks to some moron who continuously gives out our number when applying to things and running up bills. Ignoring these things, or telling the folks on the other end that no, such and such doesn't live here usually makes them go away.
But this one was different. Every hour, on the hour this damn phone message kept calling up and being played for us. Irritating, certainly, but not the end of the world. My wife was pissed, though. I was playing Persona 4, and she enjoy watching (I'd make a crass joke about her being a voyeur, but as she doesn't read these boards it'd go wasted
). So, she calls up the number that was given, and starts to explain that we're not a customer, that we don't want to be a customer, and that these calls have to stop.And we do get them stopped - the second time we call. Because the first time, the guy who answered the phone just couldn't be bothered to deal with the issue presented to him. When she explained the situation, his first response was "if the calls aren't for you, just ignore them." This pissed her off more, but, being the wonderfully level headed individual she is, she doesn't overreact to assholes the same way I do. She just started, calmly saying that as they were coming in so often, we needed to get our number off the list. Mid-sentence, he says "hold on, I'll transfer you." And he did. To nowhere.
What pisses me off about this is, if I tried something like this, I'd be out on my damn ass faster than you could say something that doesn't take very long to say. And I can understand not wanting to be at work, but can you really give that little of a damn about someone calling in who's being incorrectly targetted for (probably) owing money?
Then I realize that I really shouldn't be so naive at this point in my life, sigh, and go back to saving Kanji. Least it got sorted in the end.
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