I can tell it is the end of the month, without even looking at a calender. "How can you tell," I here you ask. Because the farooking telemarketers are spamming me again (thanks for asking by the way).
For the last couple of weeks, telemarketers have not been bad. A couple a week, in the evening - I can live with that. However, for some strange reason, we always get bombarded at the end of the month.
Imagine: All week I have been on third shift, so I have been sleeping during the day. On Monday and Tuesday, not a single phone call (not even from friends). Yesterday, 4 telemarketers called while I was trying to sleep, starting at 10 AM (just 1 1/2 hours after I went to bed). One of them insisted I needed a Free yellow pages ad. I couldn't get her to listen to me that she was calling a home phone, not a business (that's when she threw in that the ad was Free). The other 3 calls were made by computers, where if one answers after someone else has already answered, dead air greets you. Then there were a couple of calls after I arose at 3 PM).
This morning I figured I would be smart and turn the ringer to the bedroom phone down, so the phone calls wouldn't disturb me too much (I still need to be available in case something disasterous happens to the machine at work - so I can't turn the phone off completely). That certainly helped! I remember waking up just enough to listen for messages if they were left on the answering machine - 7 times. Of course no one actually left a message, so I was waken up needlessly.
My only mistake was in not changing the number of rings before the answering picked up. It is always set at 6 rings. That changed after I got up this afternoon and now it will answer after only 2 rings. Of course, since tomorrow I won't get but a couple of hours of sleep anyway (I have to take care of dogs at noon and 5 PM), changing the amount of rings would have done much more good if I had done it sooner - but better late than never.
Could we please get this "No Call" thing going!?!?
GAWD! I have them calling my house all day long! Stacey and the other roomate work nights so EVERYONE is sleeping when they call. It's supposed to be if you tell them to remove your number from their list and they call back again, they can be fined. I've threatened them all with that and they still continue to call. ARRGGHGH! I'm so ready for that "no call" to kick in, if it ever does. I've heard that it may backfire in everyone's face and actually cause more harm than good, but I guess we'll just have to wait and see huh?
Posted by: Sam | October 30, 2003 at 11:42 PM
I thought it was interesting that the CEO of one of the biggest telemarketing firms had signed up on the NO CALL list.
We get those calls, too. Once DH gets home, he answers the phone. He is SO good at saying NO. I try to be polite, and of course it doesn't get me anywhere. He just says he's not interested and hangs up.
The kids had to explain to me about the calls with the silence. We had just moved into a house out in the boonies, and didn't even know the neighbors, when we started getting the calls where no one speaks. I thought they were casing the joint, to see if it was a good time to break in. The kids told me about the multiple dialing and the computer going to the first phone that answers. I was relieved to know I didn't need to be quite so paranoid.
Posted by: Buffy | October 31, 2003 at 10:58 AM
We have been on the "No Call" list in Kansas since it started about a year ago. I love it! Of course, it doesn't stop the non-profit organizations (police, firefighters, etc) but it has significantly cut down on the number of calls we receive.
Posted by: Sis | November 01, 2003 at 11:02 AM
New Hampshire started working on "No Call" legislation, but then the national "No Call" came into being so I think they let it die (or quit working on it anyway).
Posted by: Bogie | November 02, 2003 at 05:59 AM