I want to kill

[iAndrea]

- my cell phone for starting to beep that annoying low battery sign in the middle of the frigging night :brood:

- people that call asking for information that they should know in the first place, but then you go and kindly check it out, give them the answers and then they call the next day asking you to give them the same info fromt he previous day because they lost the paper they wrote the into at :drama:

- when they ask you questions but won't let you reply!!!! DO YA WANNA KNOW HOW IT IS OR NOT!!!

it's all for now

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I wanted to kill people this morning, they just kept texting and texting wishing me Happy birthday.... f**k OFF UNTIL I WAKE UP DAMMIT. And my phone was too far away to get to without moving... grrr.

[HSW]

I want to kill these automatic call centres that phone me ten times a day just to see if I'm in. Most days I arrive home and I have about five or six hangups on the answering machine. And I know it's an autodialler testing various phone numbers to see when I'm about.

On the odd occasion I have picked up it's some offshore (i.e. Indian) low paid whelp reading from a script trying to sell me a better phone tarrif. And since I've worked as a Telecoms purchaser for various companies, when I ask them seemingly sensible questions (like 'how are you going to compensate me from moving from a provider that can offer me broadband to one that can't) you can hear them put their hand over the phone, ask their supervisor, and then simply repeat the sales pitch hoping that hearing it twice will change my mind!

Then again, there was this one surreal moment last week. I was at home and heard the phone. I let the answering machine kick in (Hello, I can't get to the phone...) and the other end was an automated lottery message (oh Hi, someone in your household has been entered in a draw...) So there were these two machines talking to each other without any human involvement. That was very Matrix-esque.