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WCDT - Strips 4811 to 4815 (20th to 24th June 2022)
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: Farideh on 22 Jun 2022, 20:44 ---Or just cell phones which, here in NZ anyway, do not have area codes associated with the number.
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In the US cell phones do have area codes, and the ones they assign are generally whatever the local area codes for the area you activated your cell phone. So they probably both locally have local area code phone numbers on cell phones unless one of them was living somewhere else when they first got the current number they have.
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 22 Jun 2022, 21:04 ---
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 22 Jun 2022, 20:31 ---[1]The American Do Not Call list has a number of exceptions that a number of folks seem ignorant of.
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Aye, there are exceptions. Thing is that I'm on the list because I don't want people I don't know calling me. Just because it's not illegal, it's (generally) something that people explicitly do not want to deal with. Thankfully, my phone is set to send anyone not in my contacts list straight to voicemail, which gets rid of most of 'em.
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That I very much understand (I'm also on the list for those reasons). It's just when you have to take off the headset from someone screeching or bellowing into their receiver for the umpteenth time as they threaten litigation [1] and ensuring your homelessness that it gets pretty eyerolly. Especially when most call centers use an autodialer program that only let's the human emloyee pause calls to a number for a predetermined amount of time[2]. While I understood their frustration, there really wasn't much I could do about it[3], so the assorted threats[4] were entirely uncalled for.
[1]against the employee as well as the company.
[2] At least that was the case when I did phone surveys a decade or so ago.
[3] And only a supervisor could actually remove the number from the computer's list.
[4] Including bodily harm.
EDIT: And I should point out Californians were the ones who did this the most. Easily 4 or 5 times more than any other state.
EDIT 2: typo correction
BenRG:
I guess that I think in a different way but I honestly can't understand why this is such a big issue for Marigold. Actually, living in the same small town as a professional collaborator with the same interests as me might actually be nice - To have someone with whom I can hang out and talk about issues others wouldn't necessarily 'get'.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 22 Jun 2022, 23:29 --- Especially when most call centers use an autodialer program that only let's the human emloyee pause calls to a number for a predetermined amount of time[2]. While I understood their frustration, there really wasn't much I could do about it[3], so the assorted threats[4] were entirely uncalled for.
[1]against the employee as well as the company.
[2] At least that was the case when I did phone surveys a decade or so ago.
[3] And only a supervisor could actually remove the number from the computer's list.
[4] Including bodily harm.
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I can imagine. People are pretty awful. I'd usually either just hang up because I didn't want to deal with it, or feign interest, then claim that the (fictional) dog/kid/anaconda was getting into something, putting the phone on "hold", and then abandoning it.
Emperor Norton:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 23 Jun 2022, 03:26 ---I guess that I think in a different way but I honestly can't understand why this is such a big issue for Marigold. Actually, living in the same small town as a professional collaborator with the same interests as me might actually be nice - To have someone with whom I can hang out and talk about issues others wouldn't necessarily 'get'.
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I'm not sure it was a problem so much as surprise.
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