The daily gripe

Telemarketers ??... this is how I deal with them.
I have caller I.D on my phone,
if I don't recognise the callers phone number,.. I always answer, "000 (Australian equivalent to 911 in USA) Police, Ambulance & Fire... what is your emergency ?"

They hang up in a flash and never call back.
 

terra said:
Telemarketers ??... this is how I deal with them.
I have caller I.D on my phone,
if I don't recognise the callers phone number,.. I always answer, "000 (Australian equivalent to 911 in USA) Police, Ambulance & Fire... what is your emergency ?"

They hang up in a flash and never call back.
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Very clever, Terra, I love that!!! But I promise the dedicated ones who call me would think they had dialed the wrong number and redial me!

Thank God for Caller ID that allows me to ignore the call or pick up the phone & be rude. Otherwise, I would be at their mercy all day, everyday I'm home!
 

terra said:
Telemarketers ??... this is how I deal with them.
I have caller I.D on my phone,
if I don't recognise the callers phone number,.. I always answer, "000 (Australian equivalent to 911 in USA) Police, Ambulance & Fire... what is your emergency ?"

They hang up in a flash and never call back.
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Saw this answer somewhere: "It's done, it's over but there is blood everywhere. I'm coming over for the other five grand."
 
dbeyat45 said:
Saw this answer somewhere: "It's done, it's over but there is blood everywhere. I'm coming over for the other five grand."
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LOL That's a good one too, but I would have to mention "gunshot wound" somewhere in there.

Please let me share, as I'm so happy about it. I'm not going into work 'til 1 and have been home all morning -- NOT ONE SALES CALL has come in!!!! I can't remember a morning, including wk-ends, that no one has bothered me. The blocking is obviously working. Woo Hoo!
 
Cells phones are my biggest pet peeve bar none.

Some people can't seem to do anything without their 'effing phone glued to their ear or they are texting up a storm when you are trying to talk to them.
What the hell is so important all the time ?!?!
 
While we're on the subject of phones . . . I have to be on a ridiculous conference call every afternoon which isn't so bad... But! There are generally 25 people on the call and some are so rude and crude they can't even mute themselves and end up coughing and sighing into the phone, having conversations with someone in the room, tearing paper off a printer, banging things around and just generally making it hard to hear whatever it is we're supposed to be "enjoying"!!!
 
Old Hipster said:
Cells phones are my biggest pet peeve bar none.

Some people can't seem to do anything without their 'effing phone glued to their ear or they are texting up a storm when you are trying to talk to them.
What the hell is so important all the time ?!?!
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The man I work for can do it simultaneously....puts a conference call on mute and texts someone else on a completely different matter. I've been in the car with him driving while he's doing this (and so has his son.) His excuse is "this is the way I make my living." His obsession with it drives us all bonkers, but we love him in spite of it.
Cell phones & texting by anyone at a dinner table or in front of other people who are trying to converse with them MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM AT THEIR RUDENESS!!!
 
Even if my husband calls me when I'm on a check out line at the store, I tell the cashier excuse me, and tell him I'll call him right back. This only happened a couple of times, but the cashier commented once about how rude people are. They talk on their cellphones throughout the entire transaction, and completely ignore that they're dealing with another person in real life. I had to agree, not many folks have manners nowadays. :rolleyes:
 
The world is a nut house without fences and there are so many rude people in the world, rude and clueless. I have worked with people over the years, who quite honestly I am surprised they can even get dressed in the morning, let alone find their way back to work.:rolleyes:

I have worked in the same office building, with many of the same people, for 23 years. 450 of us, all one company in one building. Anyway, rudeness abounds.

I can't ever have a conversation with my boss without her cell phone going off and she just ignores me and starts yaking away, and 99% of the time it is a personal call. Oy Vay!

OK I feel better.:playful:
 
Old Hipster said:
The world is a nut house without fences and there are so many rude people in the world, rude and clueless. I have worked with people over the years, who quite honestly I am surprised they can even get dressed in the morning, let alone find their way back to work.:rolleyes:

I have worked in the same office building, with many of the same people, for 23 years. 450 of us, all one company in one building. Anyway, rudeness abounds.

I can't ever have a conversation with my boss without her cell phone going off and she just ignores me and starts yaking away, and 99% of the time it is a personal call. Oy Vay!

OK I feel better.:playful:
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I feel the same, taking a personal call when in conversation with another -- short of an emergency -- IMO, is as rude as it gets. We have a group who meet for dinner once a month and the first thing we do as we sit down is turn off cell phones, almost in unison. But then there are a few I know who chat away with anyone & everyone who calls them as if I weren't there. I find myself making up reasons not to get together with them. There is no excuse for horrible manners!

I love that so many businesses are posting large signs these days...TURN OFF CELL PHONES.
 
Katy wrote
The man I work for can do it simultaneously....puts a conference call on mute and texts someone else on a completely different matter. I've been in the car with him driving while he's doing this (and so has his son.) His excuse is "this is the way I make my living." His obsession with it drives us all bonkers, but we love him in spite of it.
Cell phones & texting by anyone at a dinner table or in front of other people who are trying to converse with them MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM AT THEIR RUDENESS!!!

Katy does your boss text while he is driving or are you driving?, if it's him driving & texting i would refuse to get in the car as he is putting all of you at risk of a serious accident even fatality
 
Jillaroo said:
Katy wrote
The man I work for can do it simultaneously....puts a conference call on mute and texts someone else on a completely different matter. I've been in the car with him driving while he's doing this (and so has his son.) His excuse is "this is the way I make my living." His obsession with it drives us all bonkers, but we love him in spite of it.
Cell phones & texting by anyone at a dinner table or in front of other people who are trying to converse with them MAKES ME WANT TO SCREAM AT THEIR RUDENESS!!!

Katy does your boss text while he is driving or are you driving?, if it's him driving & texting i would refuse to get in the car as he is putting all of you at risk of a serious accident even fatality
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Sorry to say, Jill, he's driving. I know it's dangerous, but I'm not in a position to challenge it. I just clench my fists, grit my teeth, and hope for the best -- as does my lil guy's mom. There really is no way to get his attention on this. He's hardheaded as can be and tho endearing, he does as he pleases...as most wealthy guys do. I realize the consequences and ride with him as little as possible. If I refused to ride with him, he would be insulted and I would be out of work. Obviously, at my age, jobs aren't easy to come by. As for lil Jordan, how do you rectify this? His dad is not drinking, and since you can't reason with him on it, I am desperate for the cell phone/texting/driving laws to be enforced ASAP!

The saddest joke of all, he has made gentle reference to "as we age we have to be more careful"....so he asks ME to please pay close attention when I'm driving with Jordan in the car!!! Everyone who knows him shakes their head in amazement on that one.

I could write a book....he's one of the most amazing people I've ever known. Brilliant, hugely successful...President of the National Honor Society of a huge high school and not a damned lick of common sense!
 
No doubt you've all seen people walking down the street together; texting each other instead of talking. And, on the news, some guy in the subway playing with a pistol and No one noticed because they all had cell phones they were looking at???? That's just nuts.
 
Katybug said:
Sorry to say, Jill, he's driving. I know it's dangerous, but I'm not in a position to challenge it. I just clench my fists, grit my teeth, and hope for the best -- as does my lil guy's mom. There really is no way to get his attention on this. He's hardheaded as can be and tho endearing, he does as he pleases...as most wealthy guys do. I realize the consequences and ride with him as little as possible. If I refused to ride with him, he would be insulted and I would be out of work. Obviously, at my age, jobs aren't easy to come by. As for lil Jordan, how do you rectify this? His dad is not drinking, and since you can't reason with him on it, I am desperate for the cell phone/texting/driving laws to be enforced ASAP!

The saddest joke of all, he has made gentle reference to "as we age we have to be more careful"....so he asks ME to please pay close attention when I'm driving with Jordan in the car!!! Everyone who knows him shakes their head in amazement on that one.

I could write a book....he's one of the most amazing people I've ever known. Brilliant, hugely successful...President of the National Honor Society of a huge high school and not a damned lick of common sense!
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Sorry to say this Katy but your boss is a selfish A-hole who has no consideration for anyones safety, it only takes a split second and you could be in a fatal accident, i would refuse to get in the car if he is going to text, what's he going to do Sack you, at least you would be alive.
My late husband was a cop and had to deal with the aftermath of dickheads texting while driving, it wasn't a pretty site and all the people that were affected by that selfish act, and they still do it .
They need to bring in a law that says all mobile phones to be turned off before driving and put in the boot.
Please read him the riot act Katy as we value your life even if he doesn't.
 
I agree, another daily gripe, a$$holes that text while driving. Bad enough the jokers that just talk on their cell phones and go into their "zone". :rolleyes: :mad: I just hope that if they do cause a crash, they are the only ones that die or get crippled in it. A petty 'I'm sorry' after the deed is done is worthless to the person who loses their lives or their family who's grieving...they can take that sorry and stick it!! :mad:
 
I swear - technology is both the savior and the killer of modern society. Once, just once I'd like to see a tech that doesn't have a down-side, but my belief in the Yin-Yang nature of life precludes that.

Roomie just bought a new mop and mop bucket through QVC (Easy-Pay payments, of course - I don't want to know what she paid!) that supposedly does everything for you except the actual mopping. I haven't seen it, mainly because it hasn't arrived yet, but she said it has automatic wringing functions, a purple bucket, blah, blah, blah ... I told her that as a former commercial cleaning contractor I had found that the basics, the tried-and-true simple things, were always the most reliable, but she won't hear of it.

Oh, well ... I get to observe first-hand once again the folly of human nature. :playful:

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Hate to tell you folks this but it is illegal in Washington State to drive and use your phone for texting/talking, but it must have been enforced for about 10 minutes or something, because you still see people doing it all the time out on the roads. It hasn't stopped anybody as far as I have ever noticed. So even if your state makes it illegal, er, big deal.

It's about as effective as drunk driving laws are, I have known quite a few people, friends and relatives, who have been killed by a drunk driver, in our state they seem to just get a slap on the hand and are off to do it again, for my money it's just like taking a gun out and shooting somebody, if you are drunk and kill them with your car, you ought to go to jail forever.

That reminds me I was reading a news story yesterday about some drunk drivers who killed people in New Jersey I believe it was, and the Lawyers was trying to say they weren't guilty because they were so drunk they had no idea what they were doing so therefore they really weren't guilty. I have looked for the story and can't find it now.

Back to cell phones, it seems to me it would be a regular cash cow for States if the enforced cell phone laws, they could rake in wheelbarrows of money daily.
 
dbeyat45 said:
You were a former commercial cleaning contractor Phil ?? Small world !! Me too and I understand your mop fetish. :D
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Yep, I had always taken cleaning jobs part-time when I needed spare cash because (1) it was physical work that gave me a good workout, and (2) I could put my mind on cruise-control while I was doing it.

After I sold my last school I was looking for something to do and I thought, "Hey, cleaning is EASY!".

Yeah ... when all you do is push a mop for someone else. But when you're running crews, bidding, ordering supplies ... THEN it gets to be a lot like a REAL business. ;)

I had fun with it while it lasted (4 years or so), sold it and officially "retired" from trying to win The Game. Was offered a position as head bouncer in a strip club, and upon weighing the merits of both mop buckets and twirling tassels the latter won hands-down. :playful:
 
dbeyat45 said:
Phil, you've just gone down in my estimations. :(
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In most people's estimations I'm already lower than a pregnant snake's belly, so no harm, no foul.

Psst: What's the address of the club? :cool:
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Meh, you do NOT want to go there. Not now. Not since I left. Not unless you have some KM2 Kevlar underwear and your full inoculations. It went from a place you could bring your GF / wife to a place where you gamble your life. :(

I DO have email addys, cell numbers and "candid" pictures of all the girls, tho ... contact me for details and prices. :playful:
 

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