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PhoneSpam: I must admit a certain joy..
Tue, 21 Apr 2009

.. in mistreating these fellows. I used to just be nice to them as people are hard up and need work. But after they so often crossed the line or border-lined on harassment I've started to treat them as they deserve - Nothing in the decent persons code of conduct 2009 requires support of their broken business model or to condone their lack of ethics. The more we answer and deal with these people, the more we validate the mode of operation. (The actual guy on the phone, I know, you get your paycheque; but the guy who runs the company, how do you sleep at night? And how do you treat the telemusketeers who call your house?) Anyway, todays ever so slight amusement has provided a specific indulgence.

You see, they play in the gray area where you assume they're lieing, but you rarely really have solid proof. But we have recently moved, so we very much do have proof, and there in lies the guilty joy of the catch.

Bastard: "We've drawn a coupon here in our very office; a coupon you filled out last year. Do you remember it? It has been a long time.. back July of last year sir? It has your address and name! "

(like an address and name are some sort of secret thing? I'm not so quick to cleverness on my feat so I really should prepare a statement for such situations, but thankfully I am not _that_ anal :)

Nonetheless, it is a great thing to inform them that I know they're lieing this time, that they're out to scam me of something, and that I now have their phone number (since they didn't block it), and furthermore can look it up online or call it back, or set a fax to call it all day and night for the next year. I almost wish I had one of those trap programs that picks up the phone and plays receptive-sounding messages at them to keep them on the line all day..

Lieing bastards.

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