Re: dropouts and turnaround over IP

In article <43529ff5$0$4789$da0feed9@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
abuse@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter) wrote:

>Scott Packard <scottp@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> [...] He wants to fill 6 month contract position. I'm getting more
>> and more irritated because of the awful conversation quality (broken
>> up voice over ip, Indian accent, and "will I take less",
>> "all-inclusive rate" whatever that is).
>
>I believe the correct response is: "Hello? Hello? I can't hear you"

I don't have to fake that: there's a duff card somewhere in our phone
switch that gived me regular silent calls. Because it's software sucks
the Comms Team reckon it will be impossible to pin down *which* card
is occasionally pulling this trick.

>and then hang up and ignore any more calls.

Unfortunately, that is not an option. (Though it did please me to get
the same pimp five times one morning: calls one through three had a
rapidly decreasing level of civility; call four was cut short when I
announced that "I have neither the time nor the inclination to talk to
a Pimp" and hung up (Severe alarm and worried looks from rest of team.)
Call five got "One moment please", the recall button, 0, and when our
switchboard answered (with pimp listening) I requested that they "block
any further calls from the scumbag recruitment consultant they have
just transferred to our section for the fifth time, its company name
is $Agency, and it appears to be running a wardialling attack against
our internal 'phone book. Thanks!" and hung up. (A subsequent email
to Human Remains revealed that this bunch had been a thorn in _their_
side too, and that $Agency was blacklisted as a result.)

>Now I come to think of it, I have *never* accepted a job that a pimp
>found me. Do they actually have any purpose apart from making
>cow-orkers think you've suddenly become popular and to gain interview
>practice?

Pass.

Chris.

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