Interrupted from my nap today, cherished nap, by a call from this number: 403-310-2255.
Unknown number. I know who it is, I've looked it up, they call every day, 2 or three times even, on those few days when I'm home and I answer there's only dead air. You wait a couple of minutes, still dead air, then hang up.
I've called it back, but it's an endless menu of automated queues. It's Telus, and somehow they feel that because you've been foolish enough to buy one or two services from them it gives them the right to harass you, by phone, every day to purchase more. Maybe you'll be stupid enough to buy more. I've tried to think that maybe, just maybe, they were calling to see how I was, to tell me I had won a car in one of their promotions, that they'd like to give me a free upgrade on my internet, but the search results don't seem to substantiate that.
Over 10, 000 results from Alberta alone, many of the results are message boards with multiple postings. So, conservatively, 50, 000 irate customers?
Hell of a campaign. Most of the comments seem to express a similar viewpoint to mine, dead air, why are they calling, why can't they just leave me alone...Probably the marketing execs at Telus think it's a great way to advertise, call people, wake them, interrupt their eating, exercise, sleeping, fornicating, with dead air, sort of a telephone viral... calling two or three times a day lending an urgency to the calls, then dead air as you wait for their machines to transfer you to an agent.
What a bunch of fuckwits.