Rant for the day

[selloutrr]

Maybe you are like me. You start something you are focused.. In the zone.. and the phone rings. Not my cellphone, my home phone. Only handful of family members have it so when it rings I will stop what I'm doing and answer it.

the Call..
"Hello?...
hello sir...
Yes........ (pause at this point I was clear it was a cold caller who was unprepared of hung up on pronoucing my last name).. WHAT do you want?...

In a thick southern accent... I'm "insert name" with (some factory) who is in it's down season and would like to offer me it's fine products, or kitchen cabinets, plastic patio covers, and fascia.

Laughing... I said... You do realize I live in a desert, right? my wall facing is stucco. But ok i have a question.. What is the max length of your plastic patio cover span between joists?

........... IDK? how old is your house? .........

(Me)... Stay with me... I hardly see the age of my house being a determining factor in the structural stability of your plastic.

........... can you hold while I ask?.......

(me) can i bill you for my time you wasting?

(new guy) yes sir what is your question?
(me) still the same as one I asked a moment ago.
...... pause....
(New guy) IDK? what does it matter?
(me) Really... ???
(New guy) our salesman can give you an idea after he comes out and starts to install it.
(me) I guess I'll look up the answer for myself online, I don't really want a half ass installation, so I would be rather do it myself. Since first impressions are usually the correct ones. I would also suggest you work on your phone skills, demographic, and product knowledge.
(new guy) ... well go fuck yourself... (hung up)

It's a good day when after being told to go fuck yourself you can't help but smile.

If I didn't need a land line to use my gate I'd get rid of it.

haha ... go fuck yourself.. priceless.

[Reeltarded]

I love telemarketers that land in the web that is my mobile. I was like one of the first three people on the do not call list and I am very proud of that if challenged. lol

They never call back. No one deserves all that.. well, almost no one.

[vibratoking]

Been there...

I need my land line for the same reason. I have told all family members and friends to ONLY call my cell phone. I do not take calls on my land line. I still have an answering machine attached due to historical reasons. I used to use it, but I guess I have been too lazy to disconnect it. It logs about 30 calls per week and I hit the delete button periodically without listening to any messages. Problem solved. Now on to the next problem, my postal mailbox...

[Reeltarded]

Oh, don't get me wrong, I love a drop box in my front yard for 6-18lbs of trash per day! If it weren't for mail, I wouldn't need a trashman. I wonder which union owns this mail lobby politician dood that causes it?

I wrote a short story about this guy that is responsible for everything that is stupid, and there is a train coming, and he steps on the tracks....

The End

[Gibsonman63]

The extended warranty guys were cold calling my cell a few years back. They would get mad and hang up when I insisted on knowing the name of the company and the callback number before discussing anything. If I am not mistaken several state attorney generals were involved in shutting the rat bastards down.

My new pet peave are the door to door solicitors. I have sign at the beginning of my walkway and another by my doorbell, but my dinner still gets interrupted at least once a month. Now I just walk to the window, point to the sign and wave... while my little dog goes berserk.

[NickC]

I have an answering machine and screen all calls.

I rip up each and every mailing from AARP, without opening any of it, and put it in the fire-starter bin.

I do not open the door to anyone I don't know, and sometimes I don't open it for people I do know.

[cbass]

I like it when a salesman calls me .I'm lonely and need someone to tell my problems to.

[LeftyStrat]

I've always wanted to do this to a telemarketer:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohGQGUwD-vc

[UR12]

If I know it's a Telemarketer I always answer "911... What's your emergency?" They hang up very quickly

[Structo]

Good one Dana!

Yeah, I can't believe the amount of junk mail I get.
They sure could save a lot of trees if they got rid of it.

I wonder how many pieces of junk that they send out actually nets them a sale?
They must know.


911.........what is your emergency?

[Buschman]

I used to hand the phone to one of my toddlers. No land line for me anymore.

[MCK]

I would simply call in the CEOs office of this particular company on Monday and insist on talking to the CEOs assistant. Explain the situation and simply tell her/him that the next call is going to the newspaper. I would not rest until I got that guy fired for what he did. No one has the right to make an unsolicited call to ones home and end it on such a rude note and get to keep a paying job for it. Sorry this happened to you.

[M Fowler]

I was taught a valuable lesson by my old neighbor, Carl, many years ago.

The group I was with were helping Carl, age 91 at that time, with some projects around his home. The phone rang off and on all day. After being told the same thing over and over, "Carl your phone is ringing aren't you going to answer it"?

Carl said to us it's my phone and it's for my convenience not theirs.

At my home it goes like this, hello is Mr. Flower available? You mean Mr. Fowler? Yes. Hold on I'll go get him. waiting waiting waiting.................

Mark

[Colossal]

Yeah, I can't believe the amount of junk mail I get.
They sure could save a lot of trees if they got rid of it.

I mailed the Direct Marketing Association stating that I wanted to be removed from their mailing list. This then goes to all of their national distributions but not local ones. This greatly controlled my junk mail but it does nothing to stop the giant wad of garbage pumped into my mailbox almost daily from local vendors. I have spoken to the postmaster for my local office stating that I did not wish to receive any unsolicited mail. But they say and I quote "we are paid to send it out". So I guess that makes it all better then. I wonder how the postmaster (and his wife) would feel if I "paid" to send some Thai Lady Boy "periodicals" to his home.

I have been wanting to start a national referendum website/petition site to get the abolition of junk mail on a ballet. I'm sure though that some lobbyist group would make sure that my right to privacy is less important than the promotion of their hyper-consumption agenda.

[NickC]

http://www.urbansustainableliving.com/c ... -mail.html

http://www.getrichslowly.org/blog/2008/ ... den-mulch/