Pet Peeves Thread

[TFOGGER]

My latest pet peeve:

At least half a dozen times a day, I get the following phone call:

Me: Thank you for calling TFOG Wheelsports, how may I help you?

Foreign Accented Voice: Good morning. How are you dooday?

Me: I'm very busy, what can I do for you?

FAV: May I speak to Jim (butchers my last name)?

Me: Speaking

FAV: I am calling from local yellow pages...

Me: Not interested (having heard the spiel before, and not wanting to wast 20 minutes on the phone). Hangs up.

6 minutes later: Repeat. Same person on the other end of the phone, probably in India, Pakistan, or the far East. I've had to get downright nasty with them to get them to stop. For one day.

[68Charger]

Me: Not interested (having heard the spiel before, and not wanting to wast 20 minutes on the phone). Hangs up.

6 minutes later: Repeat. Same person on the other end of the phone, probably in India, Pakistan, or the far East. I've had to get downright nasty with them to get them to stop. For one day.

while not guaranteed, try "place this number on your do not call list immediately" rather than "not interested"

if they abide by telcom laws, they're required to stop calling if you use that verbage.

[TFOGGER]

while not guaranteed, try "place this number on your do not call list immediately" rather than "not interested"

if they abide by telcom laws, they're required to stop calling if you use that verbage.

They're extraterritorial contractors, so they don't abide by US law. I used to do that, and it didn't help.

[Ronin13]

They're extraterritorial contractors, so they don't abide by US law. I used to do that, and it didn't help.

I kept getting the same call from ADT asking if I'd like to get a free 12month security system if I advertise- told them I'm not a homeowner and to please remove me from their list... next thing I know- THEY STILL KEPT CALLING ME! After I asked the guy his name, his supervisor's name, and location of the company he asked why, this was my response: "Because I'm filing a complaint with the FCC and forwarding that complaint to the local FBI office for harassment." The calls soon stopped.

[68Charger]

They're extraterritorial contractors, so they don't abide by US law. I used to do that, and it didn't help.

in that case:

[tmleadr03]

My latest pet peeve:

At least half a dozen times a day, I get the following phone call:

Me: Thank you for calling TFOG Wheelsports, how may I help you?

Foreign Accented Voice: Good morning. How are you dooday?

Me: I'm very busy, what can I do for you?

FAV: May I speak to Jim (butchers my last name)?

Me: Speaking

FAV: I am calling from local yellow pages...

Me: Not interested (having heard the spiel before, and not wanting to wast 20 minutes on the phone). Hangs up.

6 minutes later: Repeat. Same person on the other end of the phone, probably in India, Pakistan, or the far East. I've had to get downright nasty with them to get them to stop. For one day.

One of my favorite time wasters was to ask them to tell me what they are selling. Continue what I am doing and grunt every once and a while into the phone. They ask if that is something your interested in, ask them to tell you again with a bit more detail. Same as before, grunt a few times and continue what you are doing while basically ignoring what they are saying. When they again ask if you are interested tell them you are not the guy who makes that decision. They will ask for the guy who does, tell them to hold. Put the phone down go about what you are doing. Come back 5-15 min later and pretend to be someone else. Rinse and repeat. They will kill your number from their list internally.

[Irving]

So today I was driving down 88th ave east bound and making a left turn onto Colorado Blvd north bound. Well, when I was about 75 yards from the intersection, a car traveling 88th west bound turned north onto Colorado Blvd in front of me, and saw a FedEx truck sitting in the left turn turn lane on Colorado Blvd, waiting to turn left (east) onto 88th Ave. Got the intersection in your head? Me and other car driving toward each other, both of us going to turn the same direction onto Colorado Blvd, and stopped at the light on Colorado (on the side we are turning to) is a FedEx truck.

So what does the driver in the other car do? Makes a right hand turn into the far left lane and STOPS just beyond the crosswalk, rolls down the window, and starts waving a package out the window at the FedEx driver. I honked at the other car, and my daughter yelled at me from the back seat and told me that "you're supposed to say 'excuse me' Dad!"

[Irving]

Man, I can't think of many things that are more of a Bitch move than answering your own phone and pretending to be someone else.

I called this guys wife twice and left my info, and he didn't call me back. The second time, she said she could take a message (again), and I said, "Sure, I'll leave my info a second time." I tell this lady, "I'm trying to get a hold of this guy so I can get him all straightened out (I'm trying to help him, and I explain that), so if he's got another number, maybe I could call him there?" She says, "No he doesn't have any other numbers."

15 minutes later, I get a voice mail from this douche bag, telling me to "call me at this number" which IS A DIFFERENT NUMBER! So I call this douche bag up within the hour and the conversation goes like.

me: "Hi, is this Mr. Douche Bag?"
DB: "No, but I can pass on a message to him."
me: "..., ... Okay.... Well tell Mr. Douche Bag that I'm trying to take care of his problem, and some other guy will call him to get his shit fixed. Make sure he talks to this other guy."
DB: "He's going to call today?"
me: "YES!"

The next time I call him, I fully expect the convo to go like this:

me: "Hello, is this Mr. Douche Bag?"
DB: "No, but I can pass him a message."
me: "HELLO MR. DOUCHE BAG! Anyway, like I told you last time, this is what is going down. etc etc."


P.S. I don't really talk like that on the phone. I'm both ranting, and trying to be vague.

My lady recently had the same issue with some douche bags she was trying to help. She called this guy for 6 months, trying to get into contact with him to prevent him from being sued. His ghetto assed adult children and brain dead wife would answer the phone, say he wasn't there, take a fake message, and say that they didn't know his cell phone number. Finally, one of the adult mouth breathers told her, "Look, now a days, no one knows anyone's number okay? I don't know my dad's number! It is speed dial 6 on my phone!" He was speaking to her on the house phone. Did he pick up his phone and dial "6" and write down the number and give it to her? Nope.

So she told him that they were getting sued and to expect a call from an attorney. They threw a bitch fit and said she was being threatening and rude. Sucks for them. She tried to call them since MAY to represent this guy and prevent him from being sued (she's not a collector or anything like that), and he and his retard family didn't think it was important enough to return a phone call, so now they're going to be sued by a multi-million dollar corporation. Sucks for them/him.

I'm done.

[mcantar18c]

Unless its your job or stand to gain something... why are you trying to help someone that doesn't want it?

[Irving]

Job, and that's what they pay for.