Path: utzoo!telecom-request
Date: Sat, 6 Apr 91 13:51:04 GMT
From: jpp@tygra.UUCP (John Palmer)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom
Subject: "Hello, I'm Digit-Dialing ..."
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I was in my car the other day and had my office line forwarded to my
car. Got the following call:

Me: "Hello, <name of company>, can I help you?"

Woman: "Yes, I'm digit-dialing and I was wondering if your company
        has any other numbers in this prefix?"

Me: "What's digit dialing?"

Woman: "I'm dialing all of the numbers that begin with 881-8"

Me: "Why? Why are you doing this?"

Woman: "I'm telemarketing."    

I go on to bawl her out for invading my privacy and tying up my
business line. I hand her some line about how that is illegal and that
she better not call me again or I'd call the police. She politly says,
"Thank you. Goodbye"

Hmmmm. Someone wrote a very bad telemarketing script for her. They
actually told her to be *HONEST* about it!!


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