Over the last couple weeks, I've had a service provider of mine cold calling me at random with jeets in a call center (claiming english names of course, because a Steve definitely sounds like curryshits incarnate) for a 'customer experience checkup', which is almost always just a sales pitch to try and get me to buy some other bundled service. I've done a fair bit of fucking around with jeets in recent times, but it turns out its extremely effective to just imply that they fucked up somehow. When they try to say "as you are a [service] customer" I just cut 'em off and go "You sure about that? Did you dial the wrong number?" and otherwise half deflect without actually saying I do or don't. For reasons beyond my understanding, it without fail sends them nuclear by the second deflection. I've been screamed at, I've had statements I couldn't understand in some weird pidgin spewed at me, I've been called a bastard and an idiot - and I barely had to do anything to absolutely fucking ruin a jeets day, it seems.
I know these calls are recorded and reviewed, at least for this company, so its my idle hope that some jeet manager above 'em took the opportunity to ream a few fools and promoted them to customer. If nothing else, fucked up their metrics, which I'll take.
This was a decade or 2 ago but we would get these calls "We are calling to verify your Yellow Pages ad".
If you said anything other than NO! NO! FUCK NO! HELL NO! NO! TO INFINITY! FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THE NO! the business would get a multi thousand dollar bill for an ad is some rinky dink phone directory no one had ever heard of.
This was long enough ago the perpetrators of those scam would actually sound like native English speakers.
This scam was confusing because they would always claim to be from "Your Local Telephone Directory" (they were not).
Sorry your post brought back flashbacks.
The other scam was we would get calls from the text to speech service the state runs.
Scammers realized going though that provided another layer of separation and made it that much harder to prosecute.
The phone would ring, the girl we paid to answer the phone would ignore it, other employees would ignore it and then I, like an idiot would answer it.
"Hello this is a call from your state's TDD phone system. Hello. I need 100 sticks of 8 gigabyte ram shipped to my home."
I would then explain we were a small brick and mortar store and really didn't do that sort of thing and they would be much better off to just go online and order their ram.
"I do not have inter net. I am deaf and disabled and can not leave my home. Please ship my 100 8 gigabyte sticks of ram."
Keep in mind 20 years ago that was a decent chunk of change.
I would explain that we just did not do mail order and they would swear on their mother's grave this was not a scam and the only thing that would brighten up their dreary existence was was 100 sticks of 8 gigabyte ram.
I would then hang up hoping I had not hung up on an actual deaf cripple that needed 800 gig of memory to live.
What can I say, I'm just too soft hearted for this world.
