Obnoxious phone calls

[jhetley]

I swear I am tempted to vote _against_ the last campaign to call me with a canned message. Or maybe the one with the highest call count. And they are offensive calls, almost totally negative. (When I listen long enough to rate the content, that is. Should leave the phone hanging, to tie up their damned lines....)

If the Bush and Kerry camps were individuals, I'd be able to get a court order against them for harassment. Don't know about other areas, but we are averaging several calls a day, a royal PITA.

How to win friends and influence people. NOT!

Comments

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Seconded. Of course, we are on the Do Not Call List and we have a TeleZapper, which may be getting some of them. Also, they won't usually leave an answering-machine message, so the solution may be to monitor calls for a few weeks.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

The "Do Not Call List" doesn't apply to political crap. You don't think the Congress would have allowed _that_, do you?

We don't have an answering machine on the home line, just the business line. And _all_ these calls have been coming on the home line.

[starcat-jewel.livejournal.com]

Answering machines are relatively cheap. How much is your peace of mind worth?

I don't give a shit about "exemptions". If we get a call from someone selling something or looking for money, they get FLAMED -- political, charity, "prior business relationship", or whatever. "Do not call" means exactly that -- DO NOT CALL HERE, I don't care who the f**k you think you are. Oddly enough, we've gotten very few repeat calls... ;-)

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

You can't flame a recorded message. Just doesn't seem to have any effect.

We have a spare answering machine, but took it off the line because it ended up getting filled with crap all the time. Amazing how much organic fertilizer you can fit through those tiny wires.