My favorite kind of phone call

[SunnyD]

You've all had them. You know, the ones where YOUR phone rings, you answer it and hear:

"Thank you for holding. All representatives are currently busy right now. Please hold for the next available representative."

*hangup*

 

[boochi]

My favorite call is a booty call.

 

[Rakehellion]

My favorite call is a booty call.

This.

 

[Mixolydian]

i usually tell them to fuck off.

 

[SunnyD]

i usually tell them to fuck off.

You bother to waste that much time waiting for someone to pick up?

I didn't call them, they called me. Why am I on hold?

 

[Mixolydian]

You bother to waste that much time waiting for someone to pick up?

I didn't call them, they called me. Why am I on hold?

no, i tell the automated person to fuck off and hope that someone is recording the call.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Any call that starts with 2 seconds of dead space gets hung up on.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

no, i tell the automated person to fuck off and hope that someone is recording the call.

I dont think they record the call (only when youre connected to a real person)

 

[Anonemous]

I always wondered if you could legally record on your end for calls that are recorded and monitored.

 

[highland145]

The one I got at 3:40 this AM. "This is the security service. The motion detector at the daycare has gone off. Would you like us to call the police?"

1. I have a director for this crap.
2. I was up stairs with the fan running.
3. The phone was downstairs. Call went to voice mail.
4. Sleep was not interrupted.
5. 2 shits were not given.
6. Win.

 

[styrafoam]

I haven't had one in a couple months, but the ones from India with a person telling you that you had won a gift card from any one of their "partner" retailers were a lot of fun. Put them on speaker, cut them off every 30 seconds and ask a confusing question, then get upset at the answer. I could never get one of them to hang up on me.

 

[Ken g6]

I always wondered if you could legally record on your end for calls that are recorded and monitored.

Depends on your state. In Colorado you can.

 

[waggy]

You've all had them. You know, the ones where YOUR phone rings, you answer it and hear:

"Thank you for holding. All representatives are currently busy right now. Please hold for the next available representative."

*hangup*

no shit i hate them. or what's worse is they call and 5 seconds of nothing.


edit: lol this reminds me of a call i got last week.

me: hello?
caller: is this Mr waggy?
me: yes what do you want?
caller: this is X at delivery service (can't remember the name). we have a delivery for you. can you verify your address as xxx?
me: that is correct.
caller: and that you social security number is xxx-xx-xxxx?
me: (it wasn't even close) lol no.
caller: oh then can you give it to me to update my records?
me: yeah its 456 go fuck a goat.
caller: excuse me?
me: go fuck a goat. /hangup

 

[iRONic]

I always wondered if you could legally record on your end for calls that are recorded and monitored.

"Are you recording this?"
"Yes I am."
"Good, so am I."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=am13QuDpokk

 

[Harrod]

I usually pick up calls and don't say anything, and then wait for them to hang up.

 

[BurnItDwn]

Yea, I don't answer the phone if I don't know who's calling. Leave me a message and I will listen to it, otherwise I will simply block the number.

 

[Iron Woode]

I hated getting these types of calls.

the YOU WON A FREE CRUISE calls were annoying. You would hear the ship's horn and then I would hang up.

The random Debt Collectors calls were really pissing me off. I had this Chinese one call. I would hear some gibberish and then when I said, "what?" they would hang up. They would then proceed to call me again 2 or 3 times a day. Ugh.

After a while I came up with an idea to stop these calls. I set up an old PIII PC and installed a 56k modem. I set it up to answer the phone after 5 rings so I could screen my calls. I wonder how they liked hearing the screeching of the modem? The real surprise was how long it took for most of those unwanted calls to stop. In a week things were much quieter.

I now use a voip phone and have none of these calls at all.

:awe:

 

[stag3]

i like the repeating game, it gets them so pissed sometimes LOL

 

[Red Storm]

I always wondered if you could legally record on your end for calls that are recorded and monitored.

With Google Voice you can record incoming calls at any time by pressing 4 during the call. Unfortunately it doesn't work for outbound calls.

 

[Jeeebus]

The best calls are the ones where you answer "Hello."

"Ya, who is this."

"WTF do you mean who is this? You called me. Who the fuck are you?"

 

[Ken g6]

"This is Rachel with Cardholder Services"...*click*

Edit: Lately it's been "notapprovedbyanycandidateorcandidatescommittee", so I don't approve it either.

 

[highland145]

"This is Rachel with Cardholder Services"...*click*

Guy with a heavy Indian accent called once, "Hello, my name is Fred." Ribbed him about it and hung up.

 

[Possessed Freak]

I believe I have been trolled by some friends. For the past 6 months I have been getting calls from the Ocean City Maryland weather service. Warnings and whatnot, all automated. There is no number associated with this (unknown shows up on the cell phone which is complete bs, the damn outgoing line should have PRI or DID or DOD numbers assigned?). I have not been able to figure out how to get off their damn spam list.

Sigh.

 

[SunnyD]

My dad was the greatest with sales calls at his business back in the day. They'd call and ask for him, he's find out who it was and ask them to hold on for a minute. Then he'd set the phone down on his desk and walk back out to the shop floor and go about working on whatever it was he was doing for about 20 minutes or so, then come back and pick up the phone and ask if the person was still waiting on the line. If they were, he'd ask them to hold on for another minute, set the phone down and walk away again.

Usually by the second time they got the hint. It was amazing how many people actually fell for this.