I'm being stalked by a fax machine.
Stop calling me!
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There's a company that wants to do business with us. Our company has not been returning their calls.
Tell me if this is not a rather badly~disguised & painfully ill~advised threat:
I can call every hour. I have a team of sales staff, and they can call you all day.
It's the kind of poorly thought~out provocative statement that elicits the kind of response in which every word is thought about and measured carefully as it is being said:
I can't imagine how that would endear you to anyone.
{No, not terribly witty on my part; but he clearly did not have his wits about him either, so it was a fair match.}
At that point I got an indignant micro~lecture on how they are responsible for North American national security, the overall implication being: "If you're not with us then you're against us" and not returning calls could only be interpreted in one way.
The company claims to be working on behalf of the US Gov't, which indeed it may very well be; but still, having a gov't contract hardly gives you the right to threaten to harass companies into giving you their business.
Until martial law has is declared and you comandeer our business, until then, please be civilized and kindly permit us the priviledge of not returning your calls.
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Now every time I get called by a fax machine, I'll have to wonder whether it's one of theirs.
But... they're harassing us because they care, so... so I guess that makes it okay.
Posted by edgar at June 6, 2003 09:31 AM