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Re: Phone calls from machines
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frontfoot
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Dec 16, 2005 06:16 PST
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Hi Roy
Is this a troll or a complaint of a pissed off human being?
I honestly dismissed your email as ... as .... hold on I am thinking.
Well, thinking is overrated. That's as far as I can see this argument.
OK. If you are for real Roy, then what you are experiencing are
symptoms of industrial disease.
You are having a pissedoffness attack. It's a very common phenomenon
that most human beings have.
The symptoms are : writing an innocent souding stupid email like the
one you did. It's ok. Don't worry.
You are simply wanting to have an argument with the machinery that
uses you as a means to profit making. It's ok. Give it up.
It's only gonna get worse.
mj
On Dec 13, 2005, at 12:08 PM, Roy J. Tellason wrote:
| | What makes ANY company think that I want to receive a phone call
from a
machine?
What's bad enough is the ones that I answer and then get some
machine telling
me to hold the line, that someone will be with me shortly. Thier
time (not
spending it dialing, and trying to reach me) is somehow more
"important"
than mine is? They might, someday, reach me if they have a
person making
that call, I don't have time for machines.
Worse yet is the one that calls and blasts away (don't these people
even
listen to those recordings to see how horrible they sound?) and
tells me that
I need to call some specific number (which I'm expected to write
down) and to
give (presumably the machine at) the other end a "one-time
transaction code"
to facilitate handling whatever it is.
And worst of all was the one I got a while ago, supposedly to
deliver holiday
greetings. I'm supposed to feel good about some machine telling me
merry
christmas? This is bad enough in and of itself, but then there's the
implicit assumption within it that I'm a christian (I'm not).
There are folks who work at businesses who sit at a desk and answer
phones all
day long, that's their job, and that's what they (presumably) get
paid to
do. That isn't the case here -- I'm sitting here, enjoying (for
the most
part) the quiet, and a trying to get some work done. A phone
call, even if
I let the machine get it, is a real interruption, derails my
train of
thought every time. But of course they're not considering that...
Any of you folks have hints for dealing with this stuff?
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet
Masters"
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