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bktheirregularDownside of being stuck waiting for paperwork to clear: I get to field the calls from telemarketers that the Do Not Call list was supposed to protect us from.
Filed a complaint once to the FCC, and got back a notice saying they didn't have enough information to go on; they listed a bunch of information to provide, and a printout of the web form I'd filled out, which had provided all of it. Gee, I wonder how that office's budget has fared under the current "administration".
Time to get more personal, I figured. New tack: the moment an unsolicited call comes in, I demand to know where they got this number from.
One time I got some guy who lied and said we'd bought antidepressant pharmaceuticals from them and wouldn't stop the sales pitch until I shouted him down.
The other time, I got a guy who said: "We got your number from a marketing firm."
Me: "I want the name of this marketing firm that gave you our number."
Him: "I can't. I'll lose my job."
Me: "Then let me speak to your supervisor."
Him: "He's in a meeting; I can't pull him out."
I hadn't refined the strategy enough, so I simply demanded that he take our number off his list. Next time, though, I'm telling the guy that if I don't get the supervisor on the phone in sixty seconds, my next calls will be to the New York State Attorney General, the FCC, and the FBI, in that order, and when the fines get levied, the poor shlub is probably going to lose his job anyway.
Yeah, I know it's a really crappy job. But so's stealing cars for organized crime, and I don't have any sympathy for people who do that either.
Filed a complaint once to the FCC, and got back a notice saying they didn't have enough information to go on; they listed a bunch of information to provide, and a printout of the web form I'd filled out, which had provided all of it. Gee, I wonder how that office's budget has fared under the current "administration".
Time to get more personal, I figured. New tack: the moment an unsolicited call comes in, I demand to know where they got this number from.
One time I got some guy who lied and said we'd bought antidepressant pharmaceuticals from them and wouldn't stop the sales pitch until I shouted him down.
The other time, I got a guy who said: "We got your number from a marketing firm."
Me: "I want the name of this marketing firm that gave you our number."
Him: "I can't. I'll lose my job."
Me: "Then let me speak to your supervisor."
Him: "He's in a meeting; I can't pull him out."
I hadn't refined the strategy enough, so I simply demanded that he take our number off his list. Next time, though, I'm telling the guy that if I don't get the supervisor on the phone in sixty seconds, my next calls will be to the New York State Attorney General, the FCC, and the FBI, in that order, and when the fines get levied, the poor shlub is probably going to lose his job anyway.
Yeah, I know it's a really crappy job. But so's stealing cars for organized crime, and I don't have any sympathy for people who do that either.
