{"id":609,"date":"2007-02-01T16:28:44","date_gmt":"2007-02-01T14:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.breigh.com\/wordpress\/archives\/609"},"modified":"2010-05-24T22:29:33","modified_gmt":"2010-05-24T20:29:33","slug":"foad-thursday-the-british","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/archives\/609","title":{"rendered":"Foad Thursday – The British"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This week’s Foad goes out to the British. Yes, all of them.<\/p>\n

With my first month back to work almost complete, I have spoken to … or rather been hung up on or told off by more British people than I care to mention.\u00a0\u00a0 In the most polite way possible, of course… they ARE British :P<\/p>\n

Seriously though, and this goes for everyone… not just the British.\u00a0\u00a0 If someone phones you up wanting to ask you a few questions or even to sell you something – either take the few minutes out of your day to talk to them or tell them you aren’t interested.<\/p>\n

Don’t say…<\/p>\n

No I’m alright thanks<\/em>. <\/em><\/p>\n

No I don’t have the time right now.<\/em><\/p>\n

No I’m just about to go out the door.<\/em><\/p>\n

No I’m just leaving for work in a minute.<\/em><\/p>\n

No I’m just putting the kids to bed.<\/em><\/p>\n

No I’m just in the middle of making dinner.<\/em><\/p>\n

No I was just on my way to the hospital.<\/em><\/p>\n

No I’m ill.<\/em><\/p>\n

… BECAUSE WE WILL JUST CALL YOU BACK!\u00a0 It’s our jobs!\u00a0 Unless you specifically say “No, I am not interested, please don’t call here again<\/strong>“, we are forced to put you back into the pool to call you back again and again until you do.<\/p>\n

Don’t just hang up.<\/p>\n

Don’t put your phone down next to the TV.<\/p>\n

Don’t sit there and sing.<\/p>\n

Don’t give the phone to your three year old.<\/p>\n

All those things don’t mean a damn thing to us, we’ll just schedule you for a call at a very inconvenient time and then tell the dude sitting next to us what a dumbass you are.<\/p>\n

I find the British exceptionally annoying because they try so hard to be polite while being rude.\u00a0\u00a0 Their words are polite but their tones, oh the tones!! It’s like you can hear them mentally picking out your eyeballs little pieces at a time.<\/p>\n

For gods sake, say it with me folks…<\/p>\n

I AM NOT INTERESTED, PLEASE DON’T CALL ME AGAIN<\/strong><\/em>.<\/p>\n

That’s all it takes, seriously… if you tell us not to call you again, we are FORCED to mark you as a refusal and remove you from the system.\u00a0 Unless you verbally refuse (and hangups and silly antics don’t count) you will be phoned repeatedly.<\/p>\n

Oh and a P.S. for the British, your stupid call preferencing thing doesn’t work outside the UK, get a clue.\u00a0 The rest of the world doesn’t care if you pay an extra 5 bucks a month* to not be harassed by people on the phone, it doesn’t apply to us.<\/p>\n

My job has ruined the British accent for me.\u00a0\u00a0 I once used to think it sounded so nice (and damn sexy on a man) now… bleh.\u00a0 It makes me cringe.<\/p>\n

*I actually have no idea how much it costs, nor do I care, that was just a guess.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week’s Foad goes out to the British. Yes, all of them. With my first month back to work almost complete, I have spoken to … or rather been hung up on or told off by more British people than I care to mention.\u00a0\u00a0 In the most polite way possible, of course… they ARE British …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[26,90,57,112],"class_list":["post-609","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-tantrums-rants","tag-foad-thursday","tag-idiots","tag-rants","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=609"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4610,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609\/revisions\/4610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.canadutch.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}