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Well... it's just a wee bit more than blowing up over a wrong number.
Let's go back a few months.
I recently moved to a new city, and was forced to change my cell phone number. I am currently with a wireless provider that is not Bell.
That should be a good thing? Right?! Apparently not. I've been getting bills for over a hundred dollars a month... it's a bit ridiculous, but I'll live with it.
However, when I changed my phone number, the new one I received was obviously used before. I started getting wrong numbers for a Hassan. Someone not English, of course.
Fine. Whatever.
The calls were local, so I could deal with that.
I've had the number a month and a half now. Monday things came to a boiling point, and I just couldn't take it anymore.
I needed the phone on, because I was meeting someone (for the first time in public) that day, and we wanted to make sure neither of us got lost, or was held up. I also keep it on during work, in case a friend wants to go for lunch - they can text me, and I'll know where to meet them, etc. It's a useful tool for the social butterfly that's buried deeply underneath my socially awkward surface.
Anywho... so my phone was on. My phone starts ringing at 10:30 AM. Thinking nothing of it, I picked up the phone to THREE voices speaking to me in a different language. I said, "I think you have the wrong number," and they became very quiet - but did not hang up. So I did.
Three minutes later my phone starts to ring again! I look at the number, and notice how odd it is. In fact, it has more numbers than it should have! I pick up, say once again, "You have the wrong number," and I'm pretty sure I catch the word Hassan. I hang up. I look at my Calls Received and notice that it was the same number TWICE. Okay. Someone from a different country was calling my number. I figure they would have realized they have the wrong number when an English person picked up the phone twice. Right? Right? WRONG!
They call five minutes later. I answer again, tell them to stop calling, and hang up. Immediately after I hang up, they're calling AGAIN! I let it ring that time. And boy did they let it ring! Finally, they hang up. And ten minutes later they call AGAIN! The third time was the last time I picked up. Anyways, after that fifth call, they stop calling, only to try again around noon my time. They try twice during that time, and I literally do turn off my phone. And I NEVER turn off my phone! :O
After one, I go outside to call customer service. Now, to call my wireless service provider it has to be between eight and five on week days. I work 8:30-5:30. So that means I'm wasting time. I wait a good five minutes to get a rep, and this is what I hear when the guy answers, "Hi this is Ian for "_________" Wireless Provider, unfortunately our systems are down right now, if you could call back in about an hour or two, I'm sure one of our representatives would be more than happy to help." *click*
He... he... he just hung up on me! I know it wasn't an automated message, I could hear background noise. I was really NOT impressed.
So I was even MORE angry.
I left my cell phone on after that, and lo and behold around three o'clock I'm getting another phone call from that number in some other country! (I haven't figured out which country, as it was only showing the city code, and not the country code) Do they not give up?? Once they finally hang up, I go back outside and call Rogers again. This time I get someone who answers asking how she can help. So I start giving her my information, and she interrupts me, 'Ma'am, I can't access our computer system."
:|
Thanks. But she still wants to know my problem. I'm really angry, so I start spewing forth what had happened, and I will admit to being an SC. I swore. I was angry. I was yelling. How dare "________" give me a number that was obviously not out of circulation for six months.
That's when I find out "__________" only keeps the number out of circulation for three months. ...Strange, I always thought it had to be six months. I find three months is not enough time for it to be out of circulation. I know I can last more than three months without talking to some friends.
Anywho, I got really angry about that, and let them know. But it wasn't like she could do anything about it. She asked if I would like for Rogers to call me back once the computer systems were back up. I said yes. They never did.
I know I was being a bitch, so I guess I deserved that.
However, since by that time I needed my phone on at all times in case my friend tried calling, I LEFT it on. By the time I met up with him at eight, I had received five more calls from the overseas phone number. So I vented to my friend when I finally met up with him.
Then the calls stopped. Thank GOD. I was home by ten and asleep by eleven. I left my phone on. *shrugs* Like I said, I hardly ever shut it off. I am awakened at one-thirty in the morning by the same damn number as before!!! I shut off my phone, and I didn't turn it on until the next day when I phoned Rogers and finally got someone who could help me.
By that time I had cooled down enough to NOT be an SC. I was polite, she was polite - and she asked me if there any number I had in mind. I was so happy when she suggested I could choose the last four digits of my phone number. I choose 2337 - BEER. And this time I didn't get charged 25 dollars to switch my phone number.
So if the girl who I got on Monday is on this website, I am so sorry for being rude!!! You didn't deserve that!
Let's go back a few months.
I recently moved to a new city, and was forced to change my cell phone number. I am currently with a wireless provider that is not Bell.
That should be a good thing? Right?! Apparently not. I've been getting bills for over a hundred dollars a month... it's a bit ridiculous, but I'll live with it.
However, when I changed my phone number, the new one I received was obviously used before. I started getting wrong numbers for a Hassan. Someone not English, of course.
Fine. Whatever.
The calls were local, so I could deal with that.
I've had the number a month and a half now. Monday things came to a boiling point, and I just couldn't take it anymore.
I needed the phone on, because I was meeting someone (for the first time in public) that day, and we wanted to make sure neither of us got lost, or was held up. I also keep it on during work, in case a friend wants to go for lunch - they can text me, and I'll know where to meet them, etc. It's a useful tool for the social butterfly that's buried deeply underneath my socially awkward surface.
Anywho... so my phone was on. My phone starts ringing at 10:30 AM. Thinking nothing of it, I picked up the phone to THREE voices speaking to me in a different language. I said, "I think you have the wrong number," and they became very quiet - but did not hang up. So I did.
Three minutes later my phone starts to ring again! I look at the number, and notice how odd it is. In fact, it has more numbers than it should have! I pick up, say once again, "You have the wrong number," and I'm pretty sure I catch the word Hassan. I hang up. I look at my Calls Received and notice that it was the same number TWICE. Okay. Someone from a different country was calling my number. I figure they would have realized they have the wrong number when an English person picked up the phone twice. Right? Right? WRONG!
They call five minutes later. I answer again, tell them to stop calling, and hang up. Immediately after I hang up, they're calling AGAIN! I let it ring that time. And boy did they let it ring! Finally, they hang up. And ten minutes later they call AGAIN! The third time was the last time I picked up. Anyways, after that fifth call, they stop calling, only to try again around noon my time. They try twice during that time, and I literally do turn off my phone. And I NEVER turn off my phone! :O
After one, I go outside to call customer service. Now, to call my wireless service provider it has to be between eight and five on week days. I work 8:30-5:30. So that means I'm wasting time. I wait a good five minutes to get a rep, and this is what I hear when the guy answers, "Hi this is Ian for "_________" Wireless Provider, unfortunately our systems are down right now, if you could call back in about an hour or two, I'm sure one of our representatives would be more than happy to help." *click*
He... he... he just hung up on me! I know it wasn't an automated message, I could hear background noise. I was really NOT impressed.
So I was even MORE angry.
I left my cell phone on after that, and lo and behold around three o'clock I'm getting another phone call from that number in some other country! (I haven't figured out which country, as it was only showing the city code, and not the country code) Do they not give up?? Once they finally hang up, I go back outside and call Rogers again. This time I get someone who answers asking how she can help. So I start giving her my information, and she interrupts me, 'Ma'am, I can't access our computer system."
:|
Thanks. But she still wants to know my problem. I'm really angry, so I start spewing forth what had happened, and I will admit to being an SC. I swore. I was angry. I was yelling. How dare "________" give me a number that was obviously not out of circulation for six months.
That's when I find out "__________" only keeps the number out of circulation for three months. ...Strange, I always thought it had to be six months. I find three months is not enough time for it to be out of circulation. I know I can last more than three months without talking to some friends.
Anywho, I got really angry about that, and let them know. But it wasn't like she could do anything about it. She asked if I would like for Rogers to call me back once the computer systems were back up. I said yes. They never did.
I know I was being a bitch, so I guess I deserved that.
However, since by that time I needed my phone on at all times in case my friend tried calling, I LEFT it on. By the time I met up with him at eight, I had received five more calls from the overseas phone number. So I vented to my friend when I finally met up with him.
Then the calls stopped. Thank GOD. I was home by ten and asleep by eleven. I left my phone on. *shrugs* Like I said, I hardly ever shut it off. I am awakened at one-thirty in the morning by the same damn number as before!!! I shut off my phone, and I didn't turn it on until the next day when I phoned Rogers and finally got someone who could help me.
By that time I had cooled down enough to NOT be an SC. I was polite, she was polite - and she asked me if there any number I had in mind. I was so happy when she suggested I could choose the last four digits of my phone number. I choose 2337 - BEER. And this time I didn't get charged 25 dollars to switch my phone number.
So if the girl who I got on Monday is on this website, I am so sorry for being rude!!! You didn't deserve that!
Really? 'Cause you weren't last night!
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