Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Notes about a cold call received on a tech support line
“Hello, technical support,” I said.
This was followed by a two minute schpiel extolling the benefits of obtaining, free, for 30 days, a special hands-free phone that allows one to walk up to 300′ away from the base unit and all they need to do is confirm out mailing address at such-n-such a street.
“We're not interested,” I said.
This in turn was followed by two more minutes imploring me to consider the benefits of a hands-free phone and that yes, truely, we can try it out for 30 days and return it no obligation if we so care to, and we were located in Boca Raton, right?
“Still not interested,” I said.
I was then subjected to two minutes of a hard sell, imploring us to accept the unit least the employers will release the hounds upon them least they fail to send us the special hands-free phone that works up to 300′ away from the base unit and to confirm that we are indeed located in Florida.
“Still not interested,” I said.
This in turn was followed by much wailing and sobbing and then the caller thanked me for my time.
“You're welcome,” I said. I could have sworn I hear baying in the background as I hung up the phone.
Can't I just sleep until next week?
It turned out to be the cable after all.
Sigh.
Now I just need to figure out how to get OSPF to communicate over the DSL link (which it isn't) and that will be that.
