Arggghhh!!!

I currently have a week off work.

Unfortunately, I’ a stuck in the house on the first day due to builders. It is a lovely, hot, sunny day, and all is nice in the world apart from telesales people from India!

The first one this morning spent about 30 minutes trying to sell me a different phone provider in very broken English and with only about 6 actual sentences. He used these few sentences to answer every one of my statements.

They were: –

• “we have online billing”
• “you keep the bt line”
• “you want 1 month trial”
• “i sign you up yes”
• “you save money”

It was great.

Then 10 minutes after I got rid of him,  his manager phoned me up because apparently he had told him that I said I was interested.

30 minutes later, another Indian call center phoned (it could have been same one, who can tell?) and tried selling me a different phone service again.

Then there were three people selling loans, another two with phones, and several I couldn’t even work out what they were selling.

Finally some woman phoned offering me a loan. I say no!

5 minutes later, her manager phones to sign me up to the loan she said I wanted. I said no again, he asked why and I pointed out even if he was offering me free money, I would say no because of the stupid amounts of phone calls I have received today from Indian telesales people.

When my rant finished he apologized, tried to explain how its not their fault, its all to do with computers and randomness and the badness of some companies. He said I was a very nice man, and it had made his day to talk to such a nice man, and did I know anyone he could phone up offering loans too?

Oh the temptation….