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Found out today why your phone rings and when you pick it up it sounds as if someone hangs up. Apparently call centers ring a block of numbers at one time, as soon as one person answers the phone the rest just cut off when you lift the phone. Not only is it damn irritating to go rushing to phone only to fund no one at the other end - my mate lives out in the sticks and was getting loads of these - she thought it was someone playing funny buggers with her, to point she was scared. I appreciate everyone has a job to do, however, this is not good practice. Rant over - thank you
you can stop this by registering with the telephone preference service ( landlines) then if they call you, they commit an offence which has a very large fine attached to it and its one fine per call
. Not sure about mobiles but it might now be available for them too!
1, they cannot regulate against automatic diallers being used to call you, well not straight away,& if your number has been sold to a co that uses auto diallers it can take up to 24 months to get you removed from all thier records.
2 they also cannot regulate against non UK based call centres calling you , ALTHOUGH there is a loop hole that states if they are calling you on behalf of a UK based company that company will get into trouble ... you try finding out what co they are calling on behalf of tho !
Please, please, please, let me get back to work...........
Thurs before Christmas, ran the car into a 14" flood, drowned it, and had to get it hauled out!..... Xmas Eve, woke up with whip lash and several pulled muscles in my back - due to hitting the flood water!....... Christmas day, cooked and served a rather wonky looking turkey, after carrying it - and dropping it - due to a rather wonky back!........ Boxing day...... central heating broke - no new part available until tomorrow!!!........ Wed after Boxing day, my back so bad I went to docs. Doc gave pills, asked if they were ok due to other meds I have. He say yes. Me throw up for 2 days as new meds poison me!....... New yrs eve, set off for part in Cumbria. Car breaks down on A1. Have to be towed home by RAC. Fit new part to car Monday night. Today, went to a stained glass supplier, knocked a whole heap of it over........ oh, and I'm now officially allergic to Christmas trees - seriously !!!
People who only answer the office phone if they recognise the incoming number.
Grown men who want to 'play' at being something - van driver, chippy, carpet fitter etc - instead of doing something properly.
There's more but I just cba right now... :-(
Making special trip to large Tescos to ensure I get ingredients for daughter's cooking at school tomorrow, because great mother that I am I had forgotten all about it today ......
went to look at clothes and picked out a pair of trousers, jkt and top in the sale that I thought would do for a possible interview next week only to find the fitting rooms shut so I gave them back to the woman at the counter
getting phone call from Old Un whilst in shop and signal disappearing while we were talking but when I rang him back he was already on the phone to the person whose problem we'd been discussing and trying to sort when phone cut off
went to get daughter's ingredients as well as my other shopping only to find that they had no risotto rice at all
getting to checkout with the rest of my shopping which came to £36ish only to find I had left my cards indoors and just had a bit of cash in my purse
having to put back the half price dishwasher tablets and carefully selected DVD to bring the bill down to the rough £25 I had on me!!
Not a huge deal in the scheme of things, but bloody annoying!!
Ian said
..you can stop this by registering with the telephone preference service..
I say
DO NOT REGISTER WITH TPS!
I registered my number, and my mum's, (when she was alive) with the TPS and shortly afterwards I got a phone call, I asked the caller how they got my number as it's on the register, she replied 'market researchers are allowed to cold call, they are exempt from the TPS'
I think it states that on the TPS website but I missed it when I registered.
By registering your number you are letting the market researchers have it to pester you at home. So no point being ex-directory if you register with the TPS.
Possibly the same applies to the MPS (mail) I don't know.
The poor old postie has to carry all that unsolicited mail around with him, most of which I recycle.
BTW those who do register with the TPS, it isn't a permanent registering, you have to re-register every so often, I'm thinking the reason for that is so that the market researchers have an up-to-date list of phone numbers?
TPS wont stop the frequent calls I get from somewhere in Asia imforming me that my computer has a problem and has sent them a message telling them it has picked up a virus.
I got he guy who phoned me yesterday so wound up he ended up threatening to bomb my house and kill my wife and daughter. Wishing him good luck with that as I have neither only got him promising me that Allah would take me streight to hell, something that tells me alot about the 'people' running this scam
Oh yeah, he also claimed that while we were talking his friend was emptying my bank account, that would have been an achiement since he even got my name wrong when he called me!
Nowt like a good screeeeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaammmmmmm, you lot!!! Can hear them from here. @purplebetty...that's got all the crap out of the way in one go!! That leaves the rest of the year hassle-free to concentrate on your amazing art and chickpeas
They said it couldn't get any worse.......... and it just did!!!!
Plumbers turned up at 5pm to fit a new 3way valve on my central heating system (had no heating since boxing day). They drained the radiators, fitted the valve, but in the process shorted the electrics and blew the control panel for the heating and hot water THEN.... because they THOUGHT the water was fully back through the system they turned on the pump to check it was all working. Realised it wasn't cos the ball valve in the loft had stuck, thus preventing the water flow. Result - a knacked up pump, cos it was running dry.
So now I've NO HEATING and NO HOT WATER!!!! @#*"!!$$%@#! And need new pump and control panel*&!$$£!%&*@#!
Deep breath....... bar of chocolate.......... noooo, 2 bars of chocolate!!!..........aaah, much better.
Stay tuned peeps for tomorrows installment, when work recommences at 9 am!
On the plus side......... I got to experience Alice2's fabby date'walnut cake...........gorgeous!!!!!!!!!!!!
Aww thanks Alice - on the plus side, the entertainment from my work desk watching it all at the top of the stairs was hilarious - just like being at the pantomine...........
Altogether now................
On it isn't............. Oh yes it is.............
Hi Bill - there's fab entertainment going on here - pull up a chair and enjoy!!!
The plumbers are in - 2 hours late - and they've discovered that practically every valve is defunct, so leaks have sprung up all over the place, and are being drained off by hosepipes, or caught with buckets and bowls. What started off as a simple replacement on a 3 -way valve has now mushroomed into mayhem, and they've now (the plumbers) shot off to all the places they can think of to get the replacement parts.
PB, it's Friday, early finish day, did they come back?
Are they qualified plumbers? They seem more like the Chuckle Brothers or Frank Spencer, aka Botchit n Scarper lol
I hope it gets sorted soon, before you start to smell J/K
Friday???....I thought today was Saturday!!! Lucky for me one of the plumbers lives over the road from me, so he can't scarper otherwise I'd haul him back by the scruff of the neck!!!
To be honest by 2.00 I was beginning to think I was going to have to have a bucket wash in the yard, but eventually they did it. It wasn't so much the plumbers fault as the ancient and creaky system. Its bumbled along nicely for years until that valve went, then it was like tumbling dominoes - one thing packing up after another! Anyhoo, the heating's running fine, the water's boiling, I've mopped up everywhere, and am looking forward to a decent bath...yaaayyy! Well done to them both ......job done....sorted !
Oh FGS!! DOH is me, yep it is Saturday, what a wally I am lol
(I've not had to knit a virtual blonde wig for a while, I guess it was overdue.)
*click clack* <<< the sound of knitting needles.
Oh that is great news, I couldn't cope without my shower. Well done plumbers.
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