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Ever get a wrong number and then have the caller get snippy with you....

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Fausto

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.....because they're mad they were misdirected?

I just had a fairly high-ranking person here at work get all sassy with me because our idiotic security people sent him to my phone with a question that I absolutely could not possibly ever answer as I lack both the knowledge and the authority.

I fumble around trying to get him at least sort of pointed in the right direction and he's being a complete dick.

Now I'm all mad. 😡

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yeap. had a old lady call me once and got pissed that i wouldn't give her to john. i told her she had the wrong number. but she kept on yelling at me to give her john. finally i just hung up.

She calls back and asked for john. i tried telling her yet again it was the wrong number and she laid into me.

hung up on her and ignored her number heh.
 
highland145 said:
Meaning you're a peon and he can treat you any way he likes.
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We're actually in entirely separate departments, so that's really neither here nor there.

I say drop one on his desk after hours.
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I dunno, I don't poop well under pressure. This was a problem when I was racing bikes and trying to drop ballast in a port-a-potty in a parking lot prior to a race. :hmm:
 
yeah, i don't answer my work phone either
actually, don't even have a work phone anymore , i don't think . since they took our cubes and went to the hoteling thing
 
A few years back I got a call from a guy accusing me of sleeping with his sister. Boy was I confused. I did manage to convince him I wasn't the guy he was looking for. He did call back again 5 minutes later....maybe he though he mis-dialed or something.
 
Even better is when you get a wrong number on your personal phone, and the random person on the other line gets all irate, insists you're fucking with them and that the number belongs to their friend/relative.

Some lady called my wife's number and insisted in broken english that we must have stolen Pedro's phone. Even had her kid prank call back at ridiculous times of night. Finally, I answered the phone at 4am and threatened calling ICE. That assumption might make me a dick, but we didn't get anymore calls from them.
 
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Fausto said:
We're actually in entirely separate departments, so that's really neither here nor there.


I dunno, I don't poop well under pressure. This was a problem when I was racing bikes and trying to drop ballast in a port-a-potty in a parking lot prior to a race. :hmm:
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Doesn't matter about departments. His attitude towards others "lesser" than him is what I'm saying.

More fiber, I'd say.

Heh, I poop great under pressure. All of my poops are under......n/m
 
My fave... some random wrong number idiot calls and you answer the phone only to be greeted with, "Who is this?"

My reply, "You're the one that called... you tell me."
 
SunnyD said:
My fave... some random wrong number idiot calls and you answer the phone only to be greeted with, "Who is this?"

My reply, "You're the one that called... you tell me."
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lol i get that ever now and then.

i argued with a person for about 5 minutes (yeah i was bored) about ti. he called and after i said hello he goes "who is this? that's not how you answer the phone!"

he didn't like it when i said you called me. so you should know who this is.

it was kinda fun. i figure he was trying to dial a business and didn't like how i answered it heh.
 
FoBoT said:
yeah, i don't answer my work phone either
actually, don't even have a work phone anymore , i don't think . since they took our cubes and went to the hoteling thing
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I should not have even picked it up, but curiosity got the better of me.
 
I have had people get pissed that they have called a phone number that is no longer valid for the person they want to talk to

I have had the number for 4-5 years and they get pissed at me ? because I do not know the person.
 
Gooberlx2 said:
Even better is when you get a wrong number on your personal phone, and the random person on the other line gets all irate, insists you're fucking with them and that the number belongs to their friend/relative.

Some lady called my wife's number and insisted in broken english that we must have stolen Pedro's phone. Even had her kid prank call back at ridiculous times of night. Finally, I answered the phone at 4am and threatened calling ICE. That assumption might make me a dick, but we didn't get anymore calls from them.
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I like when they ask you if you know them...like having a similar phone number means you're related or something.
 
Sometimes I'll call someone by mistake and get their answering machine. When I realize that I've reached them in error, I hang up. Some of these jokers call me back and say that my number showed up on their caller ID. I tell them I misdialed and they get hostile like I screwed up their whole routine. These people need to get a life.
 
KLin said:
Debt collectors ask those kind of questions.
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Speaking of debt collectors... I had one fairly incessant and belligerent collection company calling me. I forget exactly which one, but they were a known sleazy outfit that literally pushed the boundries of the FDCPA. They'd call me at all hours, usually right at dinner time or even AFTER acceptable hours (I believe 8pm is the cutoff, but they claimed 'it's not 8pm here!'), and were generally rude and obnoxious. Despite being asked to be removed from their phone list, they'd still call again several times in the same day.

So I devised a new tactic. They'd call, I'd know the number (either an 800 number or "Unknown Number" is a dead giveaway), so I'd answer the phone as an answering service. Only catch is, this particular answering service required a valid billing account or a credit card in order to BILL the caller to connect the call to the requested party. This confused and frustrated several collection agents to no end, most calls usually lasting no more than a handful of seconds - "You want me to pay for what?".

Finally, I guess they decided to assume I was playing a game with them or something and brought out their heavy hitters: Their most annoying, belligerent and downright rude - and ALWAYS foreign - agents known to mankind. Several of the next few calls they made would last 10, maybe 20 minutes, as I stood out in my garage (so my wife wouldn't be heard laughing her ass off) repeating the line "In order to connect your call to the party requested, I will need either a valid billing account or credit card number to process this call." The whole time the other party would be insisting I was the person they were looking for and to conduct whatever business they were trying to attend to, to the point where they would be swearing at me.

Much fun was had with this. Alas, this lasted only for about a week before I stopped receiving phone calls from them.
 
Had a debt collector call my work phone looking for Sarah. I haven't known a Sarah since grade school. He insisted my number was her number, and I kept telling him "Do I sound like a Sarah? This is a business phone. There is no Sarah here." He got mad, cussed at me, so I hung up. He called back, started the same spiel and I said "Nothing has changed in the past 2 minutes. I still don't know any Sarahs, you still have the wrong number," and he started cussing at me again, so I hung up. Called back, asked for Sarah, so I said, "One minute," put him on hold and never picked it up again. He was on hold for about 5 minutes before he gave up.
 
If someone calls me and asks for someone I don't know, I simply ask them what number they dialed.
 
SunnyD said:
Speaking of debt collectors... I had one fairly incessant and belligerent collection company calling me. I forget exactly which one, but they were a known sleazy outfit that literally pushed the boundries of the FDCPA. They'd call me at all hours, usually right at dinner time or even AFTER acceptable hours (I believe 8pm is the cutoff, but they claimed 'it's not 8pm here!'), and were generally rude and obnoxious. Despite being asked to be removed from their phone list, they'd still call again several times in the same day.

So I devised a new tactic. They'd call, I'd know the number (either an 800 number or "Unknown Number" is a dead giveaway), so I'd answer the phone as an answering service. Only catch is, this particular answering service required a valid billing account or a credit card in order to BILL the caller to connect the call to the requested party. This confused and frustrated several collection agents to no end, most calls usually lasting no more than a handful of seconds - "You want me to pay for what?".

Finally, I guess they decided to assume I was playing a game with them or something and brought out their heavy hitters: Their most annoying, belligerent and downright rude - and ALWAYS foreign - agents known to mankind. Several of the next few calls they made would last 10, maybe 20 minutes, as I stood out in my garage (so my wife wouldn't be heard laughing her ass off) repeating the line "In order to connect your call to the party requested, I will need either a valid billing account or credit card number to process this call." The whole time the other party would be insisting I was the person they were looking for and to conduct whatever business they were trying to attend to, to the point where they would be swearing at me.

Much fun was had with this. Alas, this lasted only for about a week before I stopped receiving phone calls from them.
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Bravo
 
Yes; one night I had a guy call me about 5 times on my work phone. Every time he would ask for whoever he was looking for, I would say you have the wrong number. Then he would ask what number this was and I would tell him the my number. Finally by the fifth time he called, which was around midnight and I was in bed, I said "you have wrong number, and this is the fifth time I've told you. Stop calling." He then started to get snarly with me, so I hung up on his dumb ass. The really frustrating thing was that I was on call, so shutting off the phone wasn't an option...
 
One time my wife sent a text message to her aunt's phone number asking about a plant she found (her aunt is a huge gardener). She got an angry response from someone saying "DO YOU KNOW THIS PHONE BELONGS TO A 12 YEAR OLD!?" and within a few seconds that same person called her yelling at her. Turns out her aunt had changed her phone number recently and hadn't told anyone. So some idiot JUST got a new phone and wasn't able to make the connection that maybe someone used to have that phone number.
 
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