Today was so-so in terms of studying etc. , need to buy groceries and cook tomorrow morning if I'm going to be in a decent mood for the exam on Wednesday. Can't be cramming pizza and samosas down every night.
Today this telemarketer called, and wanted me to switch to Bell Canada. I obviously wasn't going to switch to Bell Canada, so I asked her if Bell would pay the cancellation fee that Rogers is charging me to cancel the service (which they obviously won't pay, I just wanted to keep her on the line a bit longer so that she wouldn't bother someone else). She starts telling me she's going to call her "Super senior-visor" and then I told her never mind, and she asked why, and then repeatedly said "You won't listen to me? You won't listen to me?" and I said "well, if you're not gonna pay the cancellation, then I don't think I can move over." Then she said she "won't cancel, I won't cancel" I get the feeling they aren't even hiring English-speaking telemarketers anymore, everyone just gets dragged from the village at gunpoint and is made to repeat a certain set of syllables, and they probably all have a 2nd grade working knowledge of English (an Indian village 2nd grade working knowledge anyway).
The same number from which she called then repeatedly called me back, and each time I picked up the caller would hang up the line, without saying anything. Now there are two possible explanations for this: 1) She's trying to mess with me and 2) She accidentally hit some button or something screwed up on her end so the program or whatever that she's using to dial numbers is repeatedly dialing my number.
She can only mess with us for so long before she gets fired for not making any sales, so I told my mom and, after agreeing on the best course of action, we unplugged all the landlines in the house. It's quite peaceful actually. If everyone were like me, telemarketers would certainly, undoubtedly go broke. I have never bought anything from a telemarketer, nor do I ever intend to do so. Those people are the scum of the Earth. I don't care how bad their lives are, my time is too expensive a thing to waste.
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