We're all used to telemarketers calling at ridiculous times. Here's a new one, to me at least.
I have a standing meeting I run* on Thursdays. We have some folks from another facility who normally call into the speaker-phone in the conference room to participate. These folks declined today, citing a conflicting meeting at their facility. So as I was logging into the conference room computer to pull up the meeting agenda and such, I was pleasantly surprised that the phone rang. I thought, "Hey, maybe their meeting got cancelled and they can participate."
No such luck.
I answered the phone and a recorded voice said something along the lines of "The extended warranty on your car is about to expire. This is the second time we've called to notify you. You don't want to drive around without a warranty. Press 1 to speak to a representative."
And I so desperately wanted to press 1 just to fuck with their heads. But I had a meeting to run.
* It's true. I run one (actually, more than one) of these meetings. I was ordered to do so, so I do it. Beats poverty.
Iz out!
2 months ago
2 comments:
I get those recorded "your warranty is expiring" (no shit, Sherlock, my car is 10 years old) calls on my home phone all the time. Even though I am a member of the DO NOT CALL list.
you gotta think that's a fly-by-night operation if they (a) cold-call people with cars that are ancient by most people's standards and (b) apparently do not conform to the law of the land.
(captcha word: cringsap. What I'd like to drain out of all telemarketers.)
That's what I found so amusing about this one. I get stuff like this at home all the time. I've even gotten them on my office phone (this was actually targetted for investment stuff after the company's IPO, but it was a also a cold call going out to others in the company).
But the idea of getting a cold call supposedly "targetted" for renewing an extended warranty on a conference room phone just amused the tar out of me.
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