I did something rude, today!

[Jayson1]

Some security company called me up and wanted to sell me some kind of wireless security system but you have to put a sign of their company up in your front yard. I told him, No thank you, not interested." He then processed to keep pitching me. Instead of repeating what I just said I just hung up the phone while he was in mid-sentence.

Anybody else ever been rude on a phone? I know I was pratically yelling at the Dish Network once because they screwed our bill up by not giving us the right info. I have had telemarkers and collection agencies that I have also hung the phone up in mid-sentence or if I am being petty I tell them to hold on and I will be right back only to sit the phone down and ignore it. I don't even bother with their new tricks where they basically have a computer message call you on the phone and expect you to hold and wait for a person. Do they think anyone is actually going to sit around for a company that doesn't even have the decency to have a human being call and annoy you only to give that job to a automated computer program?

Jason

 

[tharpdevenport]

The sales guy was rude, you were justified.

 

[Timewalker]

It would make more sense to ask if anyone here has not been rude on the phone. I predict you would find that everyone has done this.

I get so tired of the calls for security systems, computer crap, and so on that I just don't have any courtesy left in me.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I was gettin texts relating to political campaigns. Does texting "fuck off" back count as rude?

 

[Timewalker]

I was gettin texts relating to political campaigns. Does texting "fuck off" back count as rude?

Was there an option to unsubscribe?

 

[Jayson1]

It counts as rude but it doesn't count as being a bad thing. Though I would have tried to go with something that would really insult them as oposed to a general insult. Remember both conservatives and liberals have certain trigger words or things that can really piss them off. Of course you only do that when they "have it coming." which of course is anytime someone annoys you on the phone.

Jason

 

[Butters]

I’ve never been rude, that I recall. But a persistent telesales guy only got off the phone after about thirty minutes when I eventually said ‘I don’t want to be rude but’, and he politely ended the call.

My favourite telesales call though was a time share guy calling, allegedly from Florida, to sell us time share. Who the fuck buys time share? For the price of a month in the Caribbean all inclusive, I could commit to staying with them for two weeks a year until I die, paid up front annually, but no flights included, or transfers, or car hire, or meals, or booze, or any of that stuff. ‘Bargain’ I said, ‘Where do I sign?’ I kept him on the phone for over two hours, debit card in hand, teasing a digit or two of the long number across the front. In the end, the supervisor came on to abuse me, accused me of wasting time and then hung up. Twat.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Was there an option to unsubscribe?

I end up blocking the numbers, but like spam calls, they're endless.

I can recognize the ones on my work cellphone, since they have the same area code and prefix as my #.

I answered an odd # on my work phone and they were looking for Maria. I said there was no Maria and it was a business phone at which point the went into a spiel and I repeated even louder that it was a business line and hung up.

Of course I've lost all veneer of tact in life and won't hesitate to tell someone off in person, so phone scam idiots are going to get it even more.

 

[publiusr]

I enjoy these calls.

"Hello?
My name Billlllly.

Hi!....I'm Billy....I'm Billy...hi....."

 

[UncleRogi]

I won't judge, but the cool thing to do is smile in the face of rude people...
and on the Phone, call them back and get in THEIR face...
Then smile and hang up.

They won't be calling you back

 

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[Refuge]

Some security company called me up and wanted to sell me some kind of wireless security system but you have to put a sign of their company up in your front yard. I told him, No thank you, not interested." He then processed to keep pitching me. Instead of repeating what I just said I just hung up the phone while he was in mid-sentence.

Anybody else ever been rude on a phone? I know I was pratically yelling at the Dish Network once because they screwed our bill up by not giving us the right info. I have had telemarkers and collection agencies that I have also hung the phone up in mid-sentence or if I am being petty I tell them to hold on and I will be right back only to sit the phone down and ignore it. I don't even bother with their new tricks where they basically have a computer message call you on the phone and expect you to hold and wait for a person. Do they think anyone is actually going to sit around for a company that doesn't even have the decency to have a human being call and annoy you only to give that job to a automated computer program?

Jason

I try not to be rude

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

IMHO, you are absolutely entitled to be rude to unwanted callers. Especially if they're just some stupid scam artist.

You didn't ask for them to call you, so you have no obligation to speak to them or deal with them in any way. Hanging up on people like that is an absolute right. Indeed, in a very real sense, it's an obligation.

You can even take a page from the Tom Mabe handbook:

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[Velocity]

I visited the Walgreens' website today to link my card with another card as I was invited to do, but it wouldn't recognize my login name or email. I called their customer service and talked to a young woman who couldn't help beyond updating my phone number in the system. She passed me off to another person who took my info again, said my phone number hadn't been changed after all and then said she wasn't the right person to help, and passed me off to another person. This person took my info once again and then, of course said they weren't the 'right' person to help and I blew up and fussed at them and hung up. I was rude, it wasn't their fault, but it was finally too much.

 

[UncleRogi]

I visited the Walgreens' website today to link my card with another card as I was invited to do, but it wouldn't recognize my login name or email. I called their customer service and talked to a young woman who couldn't help beyond updating my phone number in the system. She passed me off to another person who took my info again, said my phone number hadn't been changed after all and then said she wasn't the right person to help, and passed me off to another person. This person took my info once again and then, of course said they weren't the 'right' person to help and I blew up and fussed at them and hung up. I was rude, it wasn't their fault, but it was finally too much.

This is why people break their phones.

But you must ask: how high will it bounce?

 

[TrickyDickie]

Before we met, my wife kept getting unwanted calls from a particular company. One day she had enough. She pretended as if the representative of the company had connected with a purveyor of phone sex and she went into an explicit spiel of her own.

That company never called her number again.

 

[PureCrimson]

Man if you think what you did is rude, I'd hate to think what you'd say about some of the things I've done to phone telemarketers/scammers.

 

[Gary7]

Most of the time, I let numbers i don't recognize go to voicemail. I have one friend who blocks his Caller ID, so I never answer him when calling me, unless I'm expecting his call.

But when that moment happens where I don't screen my calls and it's a telemarketer, I do this:

"Hello, am I speaking with Gary {Name}"?

"Dad! There's a call for you!" <rustle the phone a bit> <let out a loud breath> "Hello.... who... is... calling...?"

"Yes, good evening sir! My name is {Name} and how are you today?"

"My evening will be great if you will do me one favor."

"Yes, what is that?"

"I'm recording this call and officially request that you place this number on your DO NOT CALL LIST. Thank you."

"Well, before I do that --"

"STOP right there. I'm not interested. Your company has called me before. I say again, put me on your DO NOT CALL LIST. That is all. Thank you and good night."

**CLICK**

 

[Owain Taggart]

Not on the phone, but I snapped at a guy going door to door trying to sell Bell service a few years ago. I told them bluntly that we weren't interested in their service, that the company had treated us badly in the past and had no interest in returning. The minute he tried his spiel again, I had had it and tore into him asking him if he knew what NO meant. He and his partner walked away afterwards bewildered. I felt bad afterwards, seeing as these were just college kids hired to go sell some service, but sometimes you just have to just take no for an answer and just move on. Being persistent is not going to make me like them any better.

 

[StarCruiser]

I was gettin texts relating to political campaigns. Does texting "fuck off" back count as rude?

Not as far as I'm concerned!