Probably BT's fault.....
but I pay them for a number of BT Business Lines for my own home based company (I am currently reviewing comms contracts, so it might not be BT in the near future). Anyway, the main telephone number that I use, and got printed on letter heads etc. is the easiest to remember. Unfortunately, BT gave me a number that was until recently used by a recruitment company.

So, on a daily basis I get calls that start "Hello, is that XXXX recruitment?". I used to explain that this is their old number and no longer in use, but now I start having a little more fun, and tell them that they all died of syphillis/blue tongue/leprasy etc.

I also get calls from people who start calls by asking for the address of XXXXX recruitment so that they can send me their CV's. I helpfully give them my neighbour's address as he is a twunt.

I also had one guy who used to repeatedly call my second line at odd times and leave messages on the answer machine. He was complaining that he had placed an order for penis growth pills from my company. Each time, he had a rant, then left his number for someone to call him back.

He sounded like an old geezer, a bit weird in his tone as you'd expect anyone who buys penis growth pills to be. This went on for about 8 weeks, then I finally got a message to say that he had now received his pills, and he wanted to know how many pills to take.

At this point I rang him back, and explained that for best effect he should neck 'em all, and make a new order as soon as possible.

He never called again.

Length: Same with the pills as without.
( Piper Alpha is being a grumpy northerm bastard on:, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:31, 4 replies)

Harsh
The peolpe sending in their CV's were just after a job!

All those hopes and dreams dashed on a twunts floor...
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:42, closed)

@fuckarama
Yeah but if they dialed the wrong number then they failed the initiative test, and probably wouldn't have got the job anyway.
( rofl harris, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 12:54, closed)

@Gibbles
You'd be surprised! I used to work as agency for a well know Telecoms provider and the people they employed would surprise you!

Like the guy who was doing his sex line side business while at work, on work phones,
(Fuckarma was masturbating into your handbag, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 13:17, closed)

Sex chat line in an office?
Sounds awful.

Even worse if he was trying to be subtle using management speak...
"Yeah, baby. You leverage that asset, oh girl you're making me want to synergise with you."
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Thu 11 Sep 2008, 14:03, closed)