Sir, you've dialed the wrong number!

[Tito]

Arggghhhhhh!!!! Why do some people have such a hard time accepting this fact if they dial a wrong number???? I had the joy of dealing with this bull headed jackass while filling in on the switchboard today:

Me: *company name*.
BHJ: Yeah, I have a question on *something we do not cover*.
Me: Okay, are you sure you want *company name*?
BHJ: I'm looking for *name of a different company*.
Me: Okay, you've dialed the wrong number.
BHJ: No, I didn't! This is the number I was given, and I dialed it & hit 0 for the operator!
Me: What number are you trying to reach?
BHJ: *rattles off number that is not even ours*.
Me: Sir, this is the wrong number.
BHJ: No, it isn't!
Me: Sir, yes it is. This is *company name*.
BHJ: Well, this is the number I received when I called information!
Me: (strangling the urge to tell this guy in no certain terms what he can do to himself) Sir, this is the wrong number.
BHJ: *mumbles, hangs up*

I apologize for any brain cells that may have been lost while reading this.

Excuse me while I go weep for people who have to deal with jackasses like this guy on a full time basis, and for humanity in general....

[Apathy]

Me: Sir, this is the wrong number.
BHJ: No, it isn't!

Yes it is, and you fail.

[BlaqueKatt]

Me: Sir, this is the wrong number.
BHJ: No, it isn't!
Me: Sir, yes it is. This is *company name*.

I came here for an argument, an argument is a series of connected statements designed to establish a preposition, not the automatic game saying of what the other person just said.....


sigh way too much monty python

[edible_hat]

I came here for an argument, an argument is a series of connected statements designed to establish a preposition, not the automatic game saying of what the other person just said.....

I'm sorry, this is abuse. So shut yer festering gob, you tit!

[marasbaras]

I'd just say. "Sorry, wrong number" and hang up.

[Binky]

*goes deaf from the thousands of screaming braincells that just died!*

dear god I hate when this happens! We share a similar number to a hotel. The amount of people that call and demand a room is amazing!

I would have hung up on him if I were you! Darn your patient!

Oh and YES I have been TEMPTED to book the rooms for the douche bags that demand them. But I don't want to cause hell for the hotel that has to deal with the result.

[mattm04]

Someone just called me at home today...

Me: Hello?
IC: Is Jerry in?
Me: No. You have the wrong number.
IC: Si this in not Jerry's house?
Me: No. You have the wrong number.

30 seconds later.......

Me: Hello?
IC: Jerry?
Me: wrong number.
IC: Ok. *click*

30 seconds later

The phone rings, caller Id tells me it is the same idiot calling. He actually left a message asking for Jerry to call back.

[powerboy]

Someone just called me at home today...

Me: Hello?
IC: Is Jerry in?
Me: No. You have the wrong number.
IC: Si this in not Jerry's house?
Me: No. You have the wrong number.

30 seconds later.......

Me: Hello?
IC: Jerry?
Me: wrong number.
IC: Ok. *click*

30 seconds later

The phone rings, caller Id tells me it is the same idiot calling. He actually left a message asking for Jerry to call back.

That happened to me just recently also.

[mischugenah]

In my hometown, there are two prefexes, and my parents own the same number on both of them (eg: 555-5555 and 556-5555). Makes it easy to remember, but I can't count the number of times this happened:
*line one rings*
me: hello?
caller: hello? is (Jenny) there?
me: Sorry, there's nobody by the name of Jenny at this number.
caller: ok, sorry.
*10 seconds later, line 2 rings*
me (picking up): sorry, Jenny doesn't live at this number, either
caller: .... *hang up* (well, half of them did, the other half laughed)

If people insist on calling the same number after I've told them it's wrong, I start answering, "So-and-so STILL isn't at this number."

[KhirasHY]

I came here for an argument, an argument is a series of connected statements designed to establish a preposition, not the automatic game saying of what the other person just said.....


sigh way too much monty python

...no it isn't.

You win points, since the entire original post played itself out in the same voices in my head.

They are still talking to me...

[Tito]

I would have hung up on him if I were you! Darn your patient!

Oh, trust me, it was starting to wear thin! If he had kept it up much longer, I would have had no choice but to hang up on him, since I had other calls coming in.

[Samaliel]

"Sir, you're asking for *other company*, and we are *company*. So either you misdialed or you'll have to assume the phone company messed up the connection. Either way, I am not the person you want to talk to. So have a nice day."

[Peppergirl]

We get calls for Greyhound Canada all the time. In fairness, it's not their fault, because the number was published wrong. It's one digit off from ours.

Now, most people are polite and thank us when we tell them the number was published wrong and offer to tell them the correct number.

Of course, there's the SC's who want to argue that that's what they dialed.

I had one on Saturday that was so bad that finally, after he stated THREE times that he dialed that number, I said:

"If you had DIALED the number I'm trying to give you, you'd be taking to Canadian Greyhound right now!!"

Then I hung up. Kinda sucky, I know, but I had real callers on hold that were having to wait while I argued with this idiot.

[Librarybabe]

Same thing...

I have a second phone line in my home dating back from dial-up access. Anyway the number is one digit off from a local Ophthalmologist's office. I know, because I'm one of his patients.
It usually takes a caller a couple of tries to get to the doctor because they need an appointment for....wait for it...NEW GLASSES. I've chatted with several very nice elderly people and even offered to call the dr.'s office and have the office call THEM.

[Supernautus]

Yeah, i used to get a similar thing all the time on my mobile (cell) phone, some guy was sending me text messages, letting his boss, a guy called Pete, know that he was going to be off work sick or whatever random crap he had to say. I would look, delete the message and go about my day (don't really care if some guy I don't know can't read a telephone number correctly.)

Anyway. after a few months of this, one night I got a call, from the idiot.

Guy: Hi, is Pete there.

Me: Sorry, you've got the wrong number

Guy: (muttering) (hangs up)


Good, or so I thought, until about ten minutes later, phone rings.

Guy: Hi Pete.

Me: Sorry, wrong number again.

Guy: It's not the wrong number, I've got it in my phone.

Me: Well, obviously you've got it wrong.

Guy:Is Pete there.

Me: No, it's the wrong number.

Guy (Hangs up)

I got another three calls from the same guy, within the next hour, with the last one being

Me: Yes

Guy: Oh... (hangs up)

Never heard from him since, although I did keep his number in my phone, for possible later pranking. I almost called pretending to be a doctor from a local hospital to say that his friend pete had been in an accident, but then my human side woke up, hehe.