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Nov. 20th, 2002 02:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
wickedfleaIncredible. When I was working in marketing last year I got a call from some dude asking all these questions about our company, starting with address and phone number and proceeding to who was in charge of this and that, and when our fiscal year ended and all that shit. After I got to a certain point, I thought, wait a minute--how do I know that this guy is who he says he is, and why did I get this phone call instead of someone else? And would I get in trouble for even answering these questions? So I hung up on the bastard.
He didn't call back right away--in fact he didn't call back for the rest of the day or the rest of the week. So I thought I was cool.
Until today. Here I am covering the desk for my biweekly hour-long stint. And I answer the phone and some guy starts asking me the same goddamn questions.
The moral of the story: no matter how good an idea it seems like, hanging up on troublesome people works only temporarily. You can change departments and even sit at other desks throughout the building, but these people WILL find you. And of course it will always happen during Random Question Week.
p.s. -- did I ever tell you about the cool phone message I got last year in marketing? Some guy who sounded like Velvet Jones called up and said that he was the manager of the newly remodeled Debonair Motel in West Haven, and he was looking to do some advertising. Sure, buddy. We'll put a coupon for 5% off your regular hourly rates right in the front of the Dershowitz book. No problem.
He didn't call back right away--in fact he didn't call back for the rest of the day or the rest of the week. So I thought I was cool.
Until today. Here I am covering the desk for my biweekly hour-long stint. And I answer the phone and some guy starts asking me the same goddamn questions.
The moral of the story: no matter how good an idea it seems like, hanging up on troublesome people works only temporarily. You can change departments and even sit at other desks throughout the building, but these people WILL find you. And of course it will always happen during Random Question Week.
p.s. -- did I ever tell you about the cool phone message I got last year in marketing? Some guy who sounded like Velvet Jones called up and said that he was the manager of the newly remodeled Debonair Motel in West Haven, and he was looking to do some advertising. Sure, buddy. We'll put a coupon for 5% off your regular hourly rates right in the front of the Dershowitz book. No problem.
