We get a guy calling our house about once a week or so... Every time he asks for the same person, his freaking brother. Somehow he has yet to figure out that MY number will not get him connected with his freakin brother and he just keeps calling. We get a lot of wrong number calls around here. People will call up and ask for Jake or something and when I tell them it's a wrong number they always go "is this 258-5474" or whatever the number is. Funny thing it's noewhere close to what my number is... How do they get it THAT screwed up?
a man speaking spanish and asking for "Maria", and i answer him, "u have the wrong number"
my 3-year of spanish has finally paid off
my 3-year of spanish has finally paid off
Originally posted by: Drakkon
In college my dorm room had the number 523-2625...everybody on campus had the same first 3 digits 523....well me and roomate always get calls from drunk girls at 1/2am saying something like "Is this the penis room?" and then hung up, and not always the same girls just seemed like random for the longest time.
So wonered why for a while and then realized what does 2625 spell out? what else but C-O-C-K....so roomate started having fun with it since he was the only one usually up at that hour, saying stuff like "Room of the largest cock's on campus" or whatever. Girls only ended up coming over once, but thats another story
how does 2625 spell cock?
Originally posted by: Gobadgrs
Originally posted by: Drakkon
In college my dorm room had the number 523-2625...everybody on campus had the same first 3 digits 523....well me and roomate always get calls from drunk girls at 1/2am saying something like "Is this the penis room?" and then hung up, and not always the same girls just seemed like random for the longest time.
So wonered why for a while and then realized what does 2625 spell out? what else but C-O-C-K....so roomate started having fun with it since he was the only one usually up at that hour, saying stuff like "Room of the largest cock's on campus" or whatever. Girls only ended up coming over once, but thats another story
how does 2625 spell cock?
2 = abc
6 = mno
2 = abc
5 = jkl
I actually got a really interesting wrong number message on my cell phone. It was really long, I think the person calling was the friend of a soccer coach (like a youth team or something) and he was talking about soccer and sports (apparently a friend as well) and his son and some other stuff. I eventually just deleted it because I didn't feel like listening anymore. I recall he also said something important (like a changed meeting time, something like that) that I kind of felt bad about since I figured the guy he was calling obviously didn't get that. That was about it.
Lithium381
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I got about 8 calls from some guy in Austria asking for some name i can't prnounce......this is while i was working at the pizza place, and the guys there barely knew english so i thought it was a normal telephone call for delivery and the guy was originally from austria, cool enough, but when i asked him for his phone number as we normally do for deliveries it turns out he actually was in austira.....after we sorted that out he kept calling back i felt bad for him, wish i'd have kept up on some german and help him out or soemthing, at least he didn't call collect
At work I got a call and this woman said she was like some businesswoman in New York, and started asking me about ISO. Apparently she Googled ISO, got our KSU IT helpdesk number, thought we'd be able to help her out so she calls. I'm like, I don't know what the ISO you were trying to reach stands for (she didn't either) and that we only do support for KSU stuff. She had me tell her several times that we only support KSU and that we couldn't help her before she hung up.
And yeah, I hate the people who call us and ask who we are.
Another thing that's happened several times at work is that people going to Kent State University call us and they ask us to do something we normally do, but when we look them up in the system they don't show, so we're like, are you certain you're a k-state student. Half the time they say yes to this, and then it takes about 15 minutes for them to figure out they called Kansas State and not Kent State.
And one of my favorites are the people who go to the KSU website, get our number, and then call and ask what state we are located in.
And yeah, I hate the people who call us and ask who we are.
Another thing that's happened several times at work is that people going to Kent State University call us and they ask us to do something we normally do, but when we look them up in the system they don't show, so we're like, are you certain you're a k-state student. Half the time they say yes to this, and then it takes about 15 minutes for them to figure out they called Kansas State and not Kent State.
And one of my favorites are the people who go to the KSU website, get our number, and then call and ask what state we are located in.
n7
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Some old guy seemed to think my number was a restaurant or something, & left several messages about wanting a certain soup & sandwich ready for a certain time etc.
After the third message, i got annoyed & called to tell him to find the right number.
He didn't seem to understand; he asked me what number he should call!
I think he was a mental job sadly, so i eventually just said don't call this number again & hung up...& thankfully he hasn't called since.
After the third message, i got annoyed & called to tell him to find the right number.
He didn't seem to understand; he asked me what number he should call!
I think he was a mental job sadly, so i eventually just said don't call this number again & hung up...& thankfully he hasn't called since.
JohnAn2112
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I second that!!!
Anyways, my story is boring, but it happened a few days ago.
Me: OCZ Technology, this is John speaking.
Caller: Hi, is this Maxim magazine?
Me: No, this is OCZ.
Caller: Are you sure?
Me: Yes, I know where I work.
*click*
Well this lady called the other day wanting her cell phone minutes. Don't know what the fvck she was one, and she kept bitching when I told her wrong goddamn number. I should have social-engineered her cell company, got her address, and then hired someone to kill her. That would have make me feel better because the bitch woke me up.
I got a call from a doctor's office a few days ago telling me that they needed to reschedule my chemotherapy. that kinda freaked me out.
a funny one:
a few years ago, I used to work at a call center for a company called New York Waterway. I had a woman call up who was convinced that we were New York Waterworks. she was begging on the phone for us to not cut off her water. I tried convincing her that she dialed the wrong number, but she just wasn't hearing it. after a few minutes of me trying to convince her and her crying and begging, I was just, like, "ok ma'am, we'll leave your water on but please send us the check ASAP." then she hung up.
she must have been crazy, though. she never even gave me her name, address, or telephone number. even if I was with public service, how would I have known who she was?
a funny one:
a few years ago, I used to work at a call center for a company called New York Waterway. I had a woman call up who was convinced that we were New York Waterworks. she was begging on the phone for us to not cut off her water. I tried convincing her that she dialed the wrong number, but she just wasn't hearing it. after a few minutes of me trying to convince her and her crying and begging, I was just, like, "ok ma'am, we'll leave your water on but please send us the check ASAP." then she hung up.
she must have been crazy, though. she never even gave me her name, address, or telephone number. even if I was with public service, how would I have known who she was?
Or you could be at work like me and not believe a co-worker that the FBI is on the line(I posted about how they wanted to talk to some of our foreign workers for taking pictures in antoehr thread). So I hit speakerphone and said "What the fvck do you want." The guy on the other end was none so amused and said he was the Sheriff's liason with the FBI, and that he needed to talk to HR. I was like whoops...
I met the FBI on my first day (one of our clients was hosting kiddie porn on their server, apparently, and they were there to confiscate the hard drives). nice guys
Originally posted by: loki8481
I met the FBI on my first day (one of our clients was hosting kiddie porn on their server, apparently, and they were there to confiscate the hard drives). nice guys
I have no problems with the FBI. It was just wierd to get a call from one of their offices. It made sense shortly after I called back though, and everything was good.
I had one this morning at seven freaking fifteen (okay, so I'm getting ready for work, but meh):
Me: "Hello?"
Woman: "Uh... hello?"
Me: "Hi."
Woman: "Who is this on the phone?"
Me: "Good question, who the hell are you?" (remember, this is a company mobile and only close family have the number. Oh, and it's a London number - I live far away)
Woman: "Tell me who you are!"
Me: "Who the hell are you?"
Woman: "I want to talk to Matt."
Me: <few seconds of WTF> "Wrong number". <click>
People that get the wrong number and then interrogate you on the phone piss me off.
Me: "Hello?"
Woman: "Uh... hello?"
Me: "Hi."
Woman: "Who is this on the phone?"
Me:
"Good question, who the hell are you?" (remember, this is a company mobile and only close family have the number. Oh, and it's a London number - I live far away)Woman: "Tell me who you are!"
Me: "Who the hell are you?"
Woman: "I want to talk to Matt."
Me: <few seconds of WTF> "Wrong number". <click>
People that get the wrong number and then interrogate you on the phone piss me off.
Our house line has a 00 ending to it, so, we frequently get wrong numbers. Usually for Dr's / Hospital type stuff so I haven't done anything to amuse myself... yet. Maybe someday if the circumstances work out.
My office line is apparently a similar number to a Home Owners Association office somewhere, or, they misprinted it in a flyer somewhere. For a while I was getting wrong number calls for people asking to get approvals for closing. Mostly they were last minute people too... like they needed approval today or tomorrow. So I called back and told them they had the wrong number. I did that a few times (different folks) and it got real annoying. And barely a thank you. It hasn't happened in a long time so I think it was a misprint that was fixed.
I had a wrong number on my cellphone, but, they left a voice mail. Was some autoshop telling the customer that their car was ready and that they would leave it out front or something for them, etc. I ended up getting the message before the guy said he was going to leave and called him back to let him know he called the wrong person. He was polite and thankful.
Boring, I know.
My office line is apparently a similar number to a Home Owners Association office somewhere, or, they misprinted it in a flyer somewhere. For a while I was getting wrong number calls for people asking to get approvals for closing. Mostly they were last minute people too... like they needed approval today or tomorrow. So I called back and told them they had the wrong number. I did that a few times (different folks) and it got real annoying. And barely a thank you. It hasn't happened in a long time so I think it was a misprint that was fixed.
I had a wrong number on my cellphone, but, they left a voice mail. Was some autoshop telling the customer that their car was ready and that they would leave it out front or something for them, etc. I ended up getting the message before the guy said he was going to leave and called him back to let him know he called the wrong person. He was polite and thankful.
Boring, I know.
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