Dad Gets Mad At School's Robocall, Gets Even

[Drejer43]

My message would be yelling "now you know how it is!!"

 

[Olikunmissile]

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 get them even worse. If i answer the phone and it turns out to be a telemarketer of any stripe I put them on speakerphone and go on about my business while responding to them as often as necessary to keep them on the line until I eventually have to either agree or disagree to buy something. I never buy anything. I have kept them on the line for over an hour on multiple occasions. Why do I do this? Because it costs them money. For every minute of their time I waste they are not talking to a purchasing customer and are wasting money on the long distance charges. For every minute I am on the line they have one less operator available to annoy other people. And the operator I am talking to is getting their quota screwed up. I have known people who have worked those jobs(mainly because they were in desperate need of a paycheck) and the margin is very thin, if they are not making a sale they do not need to be on the line for more time than it takes to get a refusal. If they don't get enough sales and they don't make enough calls then they are out on their rears. I do have some small sympathy for the operators but the industry needs to die.

Actually, depending on the call, they can charge you for it sometimes. Then again it depends where you are, I'm in the UK. A couple of international callers get the pleasure of charging you for the call.

They can not charge me for anything unless I agree to accept the charges here in the US. Even international callers have to start any call for which you will be charged by asking you to accept the charges. Other than that the only cost is how many of my cell minutes the call takes up.

I see. Some people are so lucky. Over here they can, and there's one scam going around where I'm not sure what they do, but the can charge you like £200 to your phone bill legally. I hate people sometimes.

 

[Sutter Cane]

Yeah, because sleep is more important than your childs education, and parents making advance plans for childcare. I can understand Mr Titus' frustration, however, he should realize most offices require contact of at least 2 hours prior to being late (mine does). And if you get up at ~6:30 to get ready to go to work, they can't really call you at 7+ now can they?

Well, if you read more closely, they had already sent out notices the night before that school was going to start late, so the call was notifying hm of information he already knew.

 

[Leg End]

This guy wins.

What? Everything.

Just.....everything

Your undead army to be exact.

But seriously, can he do this to my old school? Because it would really get the point across to not call me 5 times in the same night.

 

[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.