Being plagued by calls in error (rant)

NiallB

Blue_Parrot wrote: »

For the last month, every single day, a firm called Mackenzie (something) have phoned demanding to speak to "Mark Long". Sometimes a human being phones, usually it is a computerised robot.

Twice I have phoned them back and told them that:

No one with the name "Mark Long" has ever lived at this address;
They are calling the wrong number;
I want them to STOP CALLING this number.

Twice I have spelled those simple facts out. Yet they phoned again, yesterday (a human being this time, called David).

I lost my temper! I shouted down the phone to him, all of the above, for the third time. He said that my number is "on their files" and that despite my repeated demands that they stop phoning me, it "may be" on "more than one file".

You are debt-collectors, right? I said.
"I cannot answer that question" he replied.

What a Load Of ****. Some "Mark Long" may have given them my phone number and they refuse to accept that, no matter how inconvenient to me, and no matter how many times I tell them so.

They're in Falkirk (it says on the internet). I'll be in Scotland next week, shall I go round there and tell them to their faces that there IS no Mark Long on my number, and never has been, ever?

Note that they phone my office number. This number didn't even exist until a few years ago.

"Hi mate, this is Mark Long. Have there been any messages for me?"