I am the
last person to be mean to someone when they're doing their job. I
know that sometimes at work you have to say no to people, you have to
give them bad news, you have to be less than co-operative because of
company policy and so on. I understand these things because I've had
to work under those conditions and I know that the last thing you
need when your hands are tied is some dick who yelling at you because
they think that's how to get you to risk your job to get them what
they want.
So I make an
effort to understand when people's hands are tied, that sometimes
doing a job means doing things you might not want to.
Then there
are cold calling scams. Thanks to the wonderful resource that is
who-called-me.co.uk I can generally know with some certainty whether
an unknown number is a scam or not and so I take out my many
frustrations on them.
I started
off small time just asking questions they couldn't answer like when
the accident I never had was, what the registration number of the car
I don't own is, what bank or phone company they're representing and
waiting for them to give up.
Then I got a
bit bored with reason and started having fun. Once I had confirmation
a number was a scam I'd answer pretending to be the police,
pretending to be a hairdresser, answer entirely in German swear words
(which include “Kevin”, for some reason).
Yesterday, I
just gave up. I cued up a Youtube video of screaming and just put my
phone next to the speaker. According to my phone, the cold caller
listened to thirty-eight seconds of screaming before hanging up.
You might
call this petty and it is but I don't get to be cruel to the
deserving that often.
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