Dear Bell Canada:
Aug. 13th, 2010 08:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theweaselkingI do not deal with telemarketers, or companies who telemarket to me, ever.
You got your one and only warning on this matter *four days ago*. When you called me three days ago, two days ago, and yesterday, I was simply too busy with real things to contact Billing and cancel my service, and so you got extra grace period DO NO FUCKING CALL ME EVER FOR ANY REASON notifications that *nobody* deserves, but you got anyway because I couldn't be bothered to cancel.
Today?
Today, I have time.
I'm on the national Do Not Call On Pain Of Pain list, which is naturally treated by phone spammers EXACTLY the way a "do not email" list would be treated by email spammers: A list of confirmed good numbers where the recipient will pick up the phone. And yet, I'm on it anyway, and unlike the VAST MAJORITY of telemarketers, Bell is large enough that I can *AND WILL* make the complaint for violating it stick.[1]
I'm on Bell's own internal "do not call these people ever they are angry at us" list. I know this, because Bell Tech support confirmed it to me when I called them.
I.
Do.
Not.
Give.
Money.
To.
Telemarketers.
And yet you fucking called me anyway, repeatedly, because you're fucking stupid and thought I was bluffing.
People who listen to telemarketers are stupid.
People who "work" as telemarketers are evil, stupid, and should be killed for the betterment of the species.
If you know a telemarketer, punch them.
If you are a telemarketer, kill yourself. It's the only hope you have of ever doing a useful thing.
No love,
Me.
[1]: Because lawmakers are idiots in the pay of large corporations, the major "on pain of pain" penalties don't apply to Bell - but the minor "they've been told to FUCK RIGHT THE HELL OFF AND KEEP FUCKING CALLING ME" penalties do.
Seriously, fucking "do not call" is bullshit. It's a long list of freely available numbers that are confirmed good, and ALL TELEMARKETERS ARE SCAMMERS BY DEFINITION. They do not GIVE a shit about the "penalties" for the list, because they are ENGAGED IN FRAUD TO BEGIN WITH.
You got your one and only warning on this matter *four days ago*. When you called me three days ago, two days ago, and yesterday, I was simply too busy with real things to contact Billing and cancel my service, and so you got extra grace period DO NO FUCKING CALL ME EVER FOR ANY REASON notifications that *nobody* deserves, but you got anyway because I couldn't be bothered to cancel.
Today?
Today, I have time.
I'm on the national Do Not Call On Pain Of Pain list, which is naturally treated by phone spammers EXACTLY the way a "do not email" list would be treated by email spammers: A list of confirmed good numbers where the recipient will pick up the phone. And yet, I'm on it anyway, and unlike the VAST MAJORITY of telemarketers, Bell is large enough that I can *AND WILL* make the complaint for violating it stick.[1]
I'm on Bell's own internal "do not call these people ever they are angry at us" list. I know this, because Bell Tech support confirmed it to me when I called them.
I.
Do.
Not.
Give.
Money.
To.
Telemarketers.
And yet you fucking called me anyway, repeatedly, because you're fucking stupid and thought I was bluffing.
People who listen to telemarketers are stupid.
People who "work" as telemarketers are evil, stupid, and should be killed for the betterment of the species.
If you know a telemarketer, punch them.
If you are a telemarketer, kill yourself. It's the only hope you have of ever doing a useful thing.
No love,
Me.
[1]: Because lawmakers are idiots in the pay of large corporations, the major "on pain of pain" penalties don't apply to Bell - but the minor "they've been told to FUCK RIGHT THE HELL OFF AND KEEP FUCKING CALLING ME" penalties do.
Seriously, fucking "do not call" is bullshit. It's a long list of freely available numbers that are confirmed good, and ALL TELEMARKETERS ARE SCAMMERS BY DEFINITION. They do not GIVE a shit about the "penalties" for the list, because they are ENGAGED IN FRAUD TO BEGIN WITH.