Telemarketing

[bluefirebird]

Not only do I get an overdose of calls that hang up when I answer - and this despite my number being registered with the anti-marketing agency - twice this week I have had calls from people that I have no idea who they are, or any means of verifying if they are who they say they are but they are insistent on verifying that I am who they are trying to contact.

The first one didn't get much more than "yeah?" out of me (several times) as I waited for him to explain himself before HE hung up. Then today the woman asked three times, could she speak to xxxxx and every time I answered that that is me. Until I said "how many times do I have to tell you, you stupid idiot" and then she hung up on me.

I don't want these phone calls in the first place, but have to put up with them because every once in a while they come from someone who has legitimate business with me and needs to speak to me - like credit card companies.

Sometimes I have fun, because if they ask for me by full name - including marital status - they usually get it wrong, so I tell them that the person they are asking for doesn't exist. But it seems that increasingly my deep voice, which I think gets even deeper when I am annoyed/exasperated, is interpreted as belonging to a man and that is certainly not who they are after contacting. It does have its uses though, as it allows me to impersonate my other half when I have to sort out business on his behalf and they will only talk to him in person...

Comments

[bluefirebird.livejournal.com]

Seems the bad things in life are pretty much the same the world over.
Although I guess there are people much worse off who would love to have the problem and the telephone that it comes with!

I seem to be more philosophical early in the morning!

[ferneberga.livejournal.com]

The effects of globalisation and the fact people tend to copy the bad things instead of the good things.

Indeed until a couple of years back there were a couple villages in the Spanish State without telephone and TV due to the geography of the land, or at least that was the excuse of the respective companies!