Somehow I’ve ended up on some collection company’s call list. All their numbers come up as unknown, so I’ve blocked them, but they still leave voicemails which I can’t delete without listening to them. Costs me 10¢ for the privilege.
Since they don’t mention either of our names, I’m guessing they picked us at random because our name matches a debtor, or some scumbag gave our phone number at random. Our only debt is our mortgage, and it’s paid automatically. Plus we’ve never gotten anything in writing from anyone regarding late payments.
Just occurred to me - maybe I need to check our credit reports. Meanwhile, does anyone know how to block voicemail on AT&T? I don’t want these people leaving me messages any more!
If I had a nickel for every time someone called me “Marian the Librarian” I’d be rich. I also know all the words to that song. Heck, I can sing the entire score of The Music Man.
Sari, re: freezing out the bats. I doubt that would work. Bob the Wonder Pony lived at a barn with a giant hayloft above. Place was bat city, and trust me, it got freezing balls cold up there in the winter. This is northern Illinois, mind you. Still the bats hung around. Or if they migrated in the winter, they always came back in the summer when it was a freaking furnace up there. Can’t freeze 'em, can’t boil 'em. I like the BB gun/shotgun/vodka method.
Are your religious beliefs Rastafarian? Pastafarian?
I have a recommendation for a really dumbass idea, should anyone or more of y’all be lookin’ for one. Get a job at your local police station and then show up drunk. Even better, drive there drunk. :rolleyes: Yes, I am dealin’ with just that situation right now. Said person is now on leave without pay pendin’ termination for cause.
[del]Minion[/del] Assistant was all verklempt. I asked her if she needed a drink. She laughed. See, I got me a good one!
Peedin, you must be a fellow-brarian. Howdy howdy howdy!
Sadly, swampy, I am neither rasta nor pasta… more of an humanitarian vegetarian contrarian American librarian, though as bbbobbio predicted, I do lean Libertarian… but unfortunately, Moooom, my name’s not Marian nor even Kari Ann (though I do claim half of the latter).
Busy day phone call and paper irk wise.
And irk was actually a bit busy as well.
FCM are you talking land line or cell phone AT&T?
I have a free app on my cell phone that used to be called Block Calls and Earn Cash, now called Legal Call Blocker.
I don’t expect to make any money but it blocks the calls and they don’t go to VM.
When the bill collectors were calling my land line I couldn’t block them because the numbers were always private or out of area.
However, whenever I could get their numbers I called them back and left them a very long expletive filled nasty message telling them that I was not the expletive they were looking for and they needed to remove my number from their list. It took a few times but they finally quit calling.
My snail mail is full of junk mail telling me that for a (n inflated) fee I can get a copy of my deed, lots of offers for mortgage insurance, refinancing offers, and offers to change the frequency of my payments.
Now I have to call my health insurance because I got a letter from them requesting information to update my files. They choose another company to update their files to see if I am covered under multiple policies.
The problem I have is the name of the company supposedly updating my files is XXXXX Recovery Services which sounds like a bill collector and the name on the prepaid postage envelope is ABC Recovery Services.
If the names don’t match then why I give out any personal information. The letter also contains a ‘your prompt response will eliminate the need for XXXXX to contact you in the future’. I don’t like their tone.
Ruble - it sounds like a good time to me but I live within the town limits. Shooting guns of any kind would not go over well. As well as it’s illegal to kill bats around here. WetOne - maybe the colony kept each other warm?
**sari **- I don’t have a SMRT phone so I can’t do apps. But it is cell AT&T - pay-as-you-go, because we don’t hardly use our phone at all. I’m thinking that when I block the numbers, it may also block VM because the 3 VMs I got were left immediately after I hit Ignore but before I consigned the number to blockage. An since there were 3 different numbers, maybe when one gets blocked, they call from another? I dunno.
And these idiots who keep calling are from some “Recovery Service” - must be that time of year…
You’ll need to call them and tell them they’ve got the wrong people, and to remove you from their database.
Do NOT give them your SSN or any other information (like employer name). Ask the name of the person they are calling, when they ask for your name. Hey, they called you.
There are some “collection calls” that are actually scams.
Hello all. Took a vacation day yesterday to be at home while some contractors were there doing work. Days like that are a great excuse to get some serious nap time in too, always a good thing.
You may remember a couple of summers ago when I mentioned the surprising and tragic death of a co-worker I’d been close to. She’d hired me and had been a good friend inside and out of the office for the better part of 11 years. The word we had was that there had been an accidental shooting at their rural home but I knew little of the details. Her husband had called me to ask that I be one of her pall bearers and he and Judy’s mom were the two I talked with most at the funeral. Her mom and I lingered on at the end, neither wanting to leave.
Yesterday after 2 and a half years of continued investigation and forensics, some slowed by case backlogs, Judy’s husband was true billed by a grand jury on 4 counts including first degree murder for shooting his wife in the back with a shotgun.
While I’ve never quit thinking about what might have happened that day, the news this morning still came as a shock. The why, we may never know the answer to that. Sad.
My daughter wants a puppy. I’ve held off for years, got her a cat instead, as we really don’t have the house or yard for a rambunctious little bugger but I don’t know, maybe a little face licker is what we all need right now.
Spidey, YOU try saying that 10 times fast 
Howdy howdy howdy!