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Dani is sick of getting bombarded with spam but is too polite to deal with it
Every day, every one of us will receive some form of spam, whether it be through email or leaflets, phone calls or even text messages.
Does anyone actually get any business from sending out all this junk? If anyone in the world wanted to buy Viagra (or something similar) surely they wouldn’t do it via a spam email, would they? At least email providers attempt to separate spam mail from your wanted messages, yet it still appears acceptable to get phoned in the evening and be asked a series of questions about your house, insurance policy, gas, electricity, water provider, credit card, boiler or double glazing. Is there a decent way in which you can ask these callers to hang up and not call again? Because just simply saying you are not interested doesn’t seem to cut it. Why, even if you listen to their spiel and then politely point out that you are not interested, do they then start to try and convince you that you must be? It always feels to me as if this is an accepted form
of begging.
“If anyone wanted to buy Viagra, surely they wouldn’t do it via a spam email, would they?”
The poor people who have to sit in the office at seven in the evening, disturbing your dinner in the hope that they will make just one sale, probably wouldn’t choose this kind of work. No one likes receiving cold calls so who would actually want to make them? But, a job is a job. No one likes having to get angry at the people who are phoning, but in the end, you can’t help it because they just won’t take no for an answer. Just like the people that own that takeaway in your area. Week one: post flyers. Week two: no one showed up, meaning all the flyers must have been lost. Week three: re-post flyers – and so it goes, on and on.
Even your mobile isn’t safe. You get a text message – oooh, who’s it from? Disappointment is followed by annoyance. And if you are at home during the day it’s likely there will have been a number of different utility suppliers trying to convince you to switch to them. Why is this still allowed?
A majority of the flyers will end up in the recycling box, the emails offering everything strange and sexual are, on the whole, ignored, and the callers on the phone get an earful instead of their commission.
Is it overstepping the mark when people make you feel uncomfortable in your own home? Surely your right to personal privacy means that once you step into your house, off the advertising-strewn streets, you shouldn’t then have to sift through your email and post to fish out what is actually wanted and then let your dinner get cold because you are too polite to just hang up?
Digging a hole
Is it just me or does it seem as if you can’t leave your front door without coming across some kind of road works? It would be wonderful if they were actually improving things, but it always appears to me as if the same place is being done over and over again, always during the height of the summer or Christmas. Then it seems that once everything is back to normal it’s only a couple of weeks before the roads are dug up again!
