Dad Gets Mad At School's Robocall, Gets Even

[F-I-D-O]

The only thing I hate worse than bot calls are calls from skinjobs (telephone marketers).

They call you up, wait ten seconds to ensure they have someone on the line and then try to sell you stuff.

And they always call when you're having dinner. And call. And call. And call.

I remember reading in one of my books about the author's experience with one of these. They were selling credit cards, and he answered that he had 9 cards, and was fleeing the law for credit card fraud along with identity theft. The man paused, then offered him the card anyway.
OT: Good for the parent. I hate those calls, especially when they are wrong, or announced constantly on TV, the website, and through email. At least wait until a better time. Win for the parent, as I doubt the superintendents had ever gotten one of those.
Did it actually have wrong info? That's just sad.

 

[SelectivelyEvil13]

I do not recall my school ever doing that, but then again, mine was run by tyrants who'd have us go to school during an icicle storm of death. Even if they did cancel, neither the school officials nor the local news would make such a thing clear, causing you to drive out in dangerous conditions just to end up cursing and screaming for getting their on time for the first and only time, no less.

So in the name of fighting a broken system, at least the father acted! It's just too bad his message was not really that funny given the opportunity at hand. Now that I'm thinking about it, perhaps he could have made a false warning that would lead the school officials to believe that school would have to be closed for some random danger/threat/what have you. Not only would the man have made a point, he could have been a hero for deceiving the school into being canceled.

 

[StraightToHeck]

Bravo, good sir. You are a better man than I.

 

[Dastardly]

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Wah, wah.

Not every family in a school system has the internet. Not all of them have a TV. Not all of them happened to be watching TV or listening to a radio or looking on the internet right then. Hell, some of them don't have a phone. The bottom line? Depending entirely on a single way of telling parents (broadcast) gets you into big trouble, because it assumes everyone is in the same economic/home situation.

We use those automated phone calls as another, more individual means of making sure important system-wide messages get out to the THOUSANDS OF FAMILIES in our school districts. You know, instead of making a few thousand personal phone calls.

Additionally, these phone calls are nearly always set up by an outside service, to which school systems subscribe. That means this error could have been on the part of the school personnel that set up the message, a computer error on that end, or any of a number of errors on the company's end. No one intentionally sends someone a useless message at 4:30 in the morning...


...Oh, except this douchebag.

 

[Dastardly]

The man got a phone call by accident, and his response is to do the exact same thing back on purpose? What a dick.

Stops the accidental phone calls though. Would you be happy by a call at 5am? No, thought not.

Stops the... the what now?

Oh, accidental phone calls. The one they didn't intend to do, and didn't make by choice? The one that was unintentional, made in error, openly a complete mistake resulting from either an oversight or system error?

Yeah, that'll teach them to not accidentally do anything anymore ever again. Ever.

 

[Jodah]

Good to see something like this actually working. I expected him to be arrested for it with how our society is now.