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Thursday, June 03, 2004
Terror of the Phone-tastic Wage Slaves
Sometimes people ask me why I hardly ever answer my phone. There are a few reasons:
1. It's hardly ever for me.
2. Sometimes it's hard to get into a good work groove and the interruption of a phone call can pull me out of work for much longer than the length of a call. And many calls could be more easily handled with a simple email.
For example:
EMAIL: please send that junk. thx
PHONE: Hi Brett, How's it going? You're good? Yeah? I'm good, too. How's Zack? How's the cat? How's your week going? Nice weather out, eh? Hell, yeah, I can't wait for the weekend. We're going up to Collingwood. No, just two days. Yeah, we're bringing the inflatable dolls. Oh yeah. By the way, could you send that junk? Yeah, love that junk. Can't wait to get it ...
3. But the main reason is because 90% of the calls I receive are from the telemarketers and a small but significant minority of those are from belligerent telemarketers who force me to hang up on them mid-call.
What's worse is that most of the belligerent callers are from charities. The other day I got a call from a woman at some liver foundation who wanted an "emergency donation of $100-$200" and she just wouldn't shut up so I just hung up. And I feel bad when someone forces me to do that.
I often get two or three calls from the same charity on the same freaking day. I have this conversation ever week or two:
POOR SAP: Hey, we're hosting a great charity event on ...
BLAMB: I know, this is the third time you called ... TODAY.
POOR SAP: Oh, I'm sorry, sir. We'll take you off of the list.
BLAMB: The last person who called said they were going to take me off.
POOR SAP: Well, I'll take you off right now.
BLAMB: Thanks.
POOR SAP: Sorry about that.
And I feel bad because I know that the people who are calling are working really cruddy jobs, like Brenda who was just "fired" from the hell of telemarketing. But it's hardly fair that I avoid my phone because of the flood of crap calls I receive. So let's get that Do No Call list going, asap.
btw
Compared to Old Blogger, New Blogger SUCKS. What were they thinking? Old blogger was nice because you could handle most of your stuff in one handy little window and didn't have to jump around from window to window they way you do now. Why can't I have all of my stuff in one place? Why do we have to jump around so much?
And the text window is jittery. If you bold text, italicize text or create a link, the window automatically jumps to the top. It's annoying having your text window jump around every time you want to bold text. There, it just did it again. Maybe it's because I'm using Mozilla.
It's frustrating because they added a bunch of superficial interface crap to make the service look more functional and intuitive but the substantial structural changes they made have made it more cluttered, confused and annoying to use.
Anyhow, if they were going to change things, you think they'd make those changes for the better, right? Right? Right?
Wrong.
10:13 AM
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