"Is there anything wrong with it?"

[Chauncey Gardiner]

Thanks Ken, good to know. That's another reason why we don't answer our home phone. We let the answering machine screen all our calls. It saves us so much time.

~ Chance

 

[idleprocess]

He lied. When a company gets your phone number they have a year to use that number for marketing purposes. It overrides the do-not-call rules. Clerks are required to get the numbers for corporate, and graded on how well they do. Luckily, any ten digit number will satisfy them.

Haven't shopped at Rat Shack in 10+ years, but back when I did there was no such thing as a do-not-call registry and they surely never called me - although they may have sold the number to telemarketers.

 

[Kestrel]

"yeah, there's alot wrong with it"

Thank you, that is the most I've laughed all week.

I'm guilty of giving companies their own telephone numbers when they ask for one

ooo I'm definitely going to be doing that.

 

[fyrstormer]

Honestly though, the reason they ask "is anything wrong with it?" is because it's usually a valid question, and it's not worth the extra brainpower to think about which instances it makes sense to ask the question. Working in retail is thankless enough, there's no point putting effort into it.

 

[idleprocess]

Honestly though, the reason they ask "is anything wrong with it?" is because it's usually a valid question, and it's not worth the extra brainpower to think about which instances it makes sense to ask the question. Working in retail is thankless enough, there's no point putting effort into it.

"Thankless?" More like soul-crushing. The average retail frontline customer-service employee lasts about 6 months - by design. Rather than look for quality people, treat them well, and pay them well enough that they have some incentive to stick around, retailers have collectively determined it's easier to internalize the costs of constant hiring, training, and using employees as scratching posts.