I understand that various groups are likely suffering in the wake of the national DNC list. I mean, I can only imagine their employees- sitting in their offices, huddled together in the dark and shivering because the heat has been turned off. I really do worry for them, I do. So, because of this I can certainly understand why these businesses have started targeting other businesses, since there is no DNC for companies. They are just doing their job after all.
(Alright, I just broke my sarcasm button, I can’t do it anymore. I’ll continue, but with genuine hate, rather than bitter, passive-aggressive sarcasm.)
Of course, their job consists of bombarding our fax machine with offers for (allow me to grab the latest stack): “FINAL NOTICE OF FREE VACATIONS! TO: ALL CORPORATE EMPLOYEES! ONLY $323 PP FOR 6 DAYS! OCEANFRONT RESORT UPGRADE!!!”, “DO YOU WANT STOCK QUOTES? WE HAVE STOCK QUOTES!!!1111”, and “FREE HEALTH INSURANCE 4 YOUR SMALL BUSINESS!!11! CALL 2DAY!!1!” And naturally, these faxes happen about 10 times a day.
But you know, the faxes don’t really bother me, as they are easy enough to ignore, plus we have a dedicated fax line. What really gets me are the incredibly shady telemarketers. These people will flat out lie with the distant hope that they will find some idiot on the phone who will go for it.
In fact, for the last three days I’ve received 4 calls a day from what I can assume is the same company.
“Ah, you shiesty bitch,” I think. I’m on to her like. . . well, someone who is really on to something.
Ah, silly girl. Our phone immediately starts ringing again and I giggle to myself as I answer and confirm exactly what I thought: the next number on her auto dial list is our other business number (which has a different area code because we have an office in another state, but the phones roll over to here). And even though I answer the phone by identifying the business, she doesn’t catch on. This time, I decide to do a fun idea that someone on this board mentioned.
Broke my heart, it did. I thought she and I had a great little rapport going on, ya know? I was really heartbroken that Toya was out of my life for good and I mean, what was I going to do without that manual?
You’re also probably wondering while I’m calling her a bitch (aside from the fact that she was trying to scam us). Allow me to tell you about today’s calls.
Things started much similar to the first call, except I asked her what company she was from. She said, “I’m Toya from your copy service company!” To which I replied, “So, the company’s name is “Toya from your copy service company” eh?” She hung up on me again 
She called me back immediately, I assumed she wanted to apologize and offer me some free toner, but instead she went through her little deal again.
“Oh, TOYA! I’m SO happy you called back! See, I was excited by that manual and you must have accidentally hung up on me!”
And then she said: “And I’m going to do it again. click”
Mean.
Asshole goat feltchers, the lot of them. It wouldn’t be too irritating, except for the fact that we get about 10 calls like this a day, per line (we have 3).
