You thought it was bad before...
Okay, get ready for this. Guess what's the latest American job to be outsourced to India. And what's worse, this makes an already super-annoying experience just a bit worse. TELEMARKETERS!
That's right, I got a phone call in my office at work today from a heavily-accented caller from India asking for someone I didn't know. After asking the caller to repeat the person's name about 4 times for me to understand what he was saying, I told him I didn't know that person, and he had the wrong number. He then became a bit agitated and informed me that perhaps he had "the right number, but the wrong name", and confirmed my phone number. He then proceeded to tell me that "as the owner of this phone number" I would qualify for some $500 prize. I stopped him right there and said "Please don't call us again, goodbye." And I hung up.

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I wonder if they can get around our do not call law by doing this? I'll talk to a lawyer friend about this.
Posted by: Richard Bachman | May 28, 2005 01:59 AM