By Alaina Loughridge
Robocalls
Robocalls. What in hell? Why? You would assume/think that after the
first 20 times they call and you hang up that they would get the hint that
you are simply not interested. The more they call, the more uninterested I
become. Well, uninterested isn’t quite the word. Perhaps raging hell bitch
mad. You block one number and they change one digit and call you back.
That seems like harassment to me.
I will explain, whether you want to hear it or not, a typical day on my
phone:
• Blue Cross/Blue Shield or Open Enrollment likes to call me every
weekday at 9am. I’m already insured by them so ….?
• Early afternoon, Google is there to tell me that my business name
is not performing as well as it could, and should be listed higher. Well, I
Googled the Tybee Beachcomber and we are the whole entire first page.
Not quite sure how that could be better, but thanks for calling me during
lunch. EVERY. DAY.
• After Google is my auto warranty call. Now, I’m almost positive they
haven’t seen my truck, because it’s not worth the paperwork involved
to warranty that leaky bitch and by the time all is said and done, not
one insurer on this planet would give me a warranty with my current
transmission situation.
• Late afternoon is the time for my school loan calls. Well, I barely
graduated high school and I’ve never been to college. Let me tell you this:
You send me a degree, and I will pay my loan. A Masters in Psychology
with a Minor in Mathematics should get me there. And, happily so.
• This doesn’t even count the calls I field at my place of employment.
Work is all the same calls with Safe Touch thrown in. Don’t even get me
started on those #$%#@$%##@$%!!! That is a whole other rant and
more than likely a weekend in jail/restraining order/felony in progress.
I have tried hitting a variety of numbers, mainly 2 and 9, which seem
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to get a response of some kind that they will remove me from their call
list. Well, that is a lie. I have also gone to the donotcall.gov website and
signed up for the service that allegedly removes your number from these
call lists. The website states that you need to renew this information
every 30 days. That is a lie. You need to renew that information every 30
seconds. I have blocked numbers to no avail. I have waited for a human
being to come on the line. This one Google guy is probably getting a
restraining order on me. I told him that if he didn’t remove my number
from their call list, I was going to burn down his house with him and his
family inside. I know. I wasn’t having a good day and I do feel kind of
bad about that.
I saw on WTOC that millions of people are affected by these robocalls.
That’s awesome. Not really. This blows. I Googled Robocalls and the first
thing to pop up was an opportunity to get on the robocall band wagon for
a mere 7 cents a minute. After that was a number of sites that guaranteed
robocall free for a price. Ugh. Why should I have to pay anyone to leave
me alone? My attitude and potty mouth should be sufficient. They are
wasting their money as far as I can tell, although somebody clearly is
buying something to keep it going and I really wish they would stop. As
far as the people that are getting robocalls from China, that doesn’t even
make sense. If you can’t understand what the people are selling, why
would you buy it?
I’m over it and I’m also over that Real Housewife of Somewhere crying
hysterically and screaming at some cat meme on Facebook. ENOUGH!
I’m emailing our State Representative, Buddy Carter, and asking him to
do something about this. Google Buddy Carter and send him an email.
There has got to be a way to penalize these companies to make them
stop. They pay me more attention than my boyfriend. Le Sigh. Now, back
to that cat meme...
/donotcall.gov