I've Had A Bad Couple Of Days.....

[Jeza]

Phone rings, a guy with an asian accent, "I am from windows technical department about the virus on you computer" I hung up without saying a word.

5 minutes later the phone rings. " I am ringing about your sky TV." I again hung up without speaking.

Less than one minute later the phone rings again. Without waiting for the caller to speak I shouted "Will you spammers (Or words to that effect) please leave me alone. The caller said I'm ringing about Mic's repeat prescription.
Ever wanted to crawl in to a corner?

[DaisyNonna]

Frequently. But I can understand your reaction. No longer answer phone if 'out of area' is showing.
Hope you got the prescription sorted.
Best wishes to both of you.

[Peter Pedant]

Yeah I was the guy ringing about Mic.....

well not quite
I was asked to ring a clerk and dialled the right number carefully (I was paying) and she picked up the phone and said:
"Oh go away you stupid man !"
and put the phone down before I cd say But you dont know who I am !
(days before see and dial)

so I rang up the asker and said 'your clerk doesnt want to speak to me today.' - even tho the deadline etc etc

and she rang .....

everyone can have a bad day....

[phleb]

Haha hope u explained yourself lol

[Connemmara]

Back online after tossing and turning from 9.00 -I do know it was too early to go to bed but I am weary mentally and physically - huh? didn't do much today.

Thank God didn't pick up "Out of Area" calls - received 4 of them from 8.00am to 12.00 am - didn't lift.

However, about received "out of Area call one Sunday" 2 weeks and it was one of my friends phoning from America - - she left a message - I want to scream at the cold callers - they are waking me from whatever kind of sleep I am in. (not deep obviously)

[Georgiesmum]

Whats up? You sound very stressed?

[mikey4444]

I have taken my home phone off the hook" for nearly a year now, purely because of these nuisance calls. It was difficult at first but eventually most people who knew me used my Mobile instead.

Registering with the Telephone Preference Service made no difference whatsoever, and complaining to the TPS when someone transgressed was a complete waste of time. What is so galling is that a lot of these irritating calls came from the famous call centre located in my home town of Swansea. Famous for 2 things...featured on a silly, fatuous program on BBC 3 called "The Call Centre" and also because it was fined for...guess what .....yes, because it ignored the TPS and called people anyway !

Shysters, every one of them.

[grasscarp]

I hate it when a cold caller says how are you today. To one the other day I said "I don't see it is any of you business".

[mccfluff]

i dont have these problems, mind you i dont have a landline

[anneasquith]

well someone has to do these jobs, so I just say I have no intention in wasting your time, and not interested but thank you for phoning. no harm in being polite .

[emmie]

i don't give them the time of day,

[anneasquith]

I understand cold callers can be irritating, but they are trying to earn a living, 10 seconds out of our day just to be polite but firm is all it takes.. IMO.

[atalanta]

Tell the "I am ringing to tell you about your computer virus" bunch that you have a Mac. They'll never call again.