Recorded voice telemarketing...

[xelasnave]

I have had about four telemarket calls recently that are robots, a human voice but prerecorded I hang up very fast but I recall they were surveys but tonight only minutes ago I pick up the phone and you wont believe this it was Julie Bishop.
I hope it was a robot because I slammed the phone down so hard and fast they may record it as a gravity wave.
Was it really Julie?
Is she in trouble and has sort me out to help fix the country?
Has anyone else received such a call.
Even now I am thinking I must be dreaming.
Please tell me it was my imagination.
Alex

[AndrewJ]

Gday Alex

You are not dreaming.
I am getting about 2 political bot calls a day ( some are just repeats from the same party ), as well as 2 or 3 personally addressed mail flyers per day. ( They use good paper and only print on one side, so are excellent for notepaper, but i expect somewhere along the line, i am still paying )
I suspect that with the bot calls, if you hang up before they finish, they just re call you.
Cant wait to vote 1 for Trump this weekend.

Andrew
PS just for a break, i also got a call from someone telling me my PC was sending spam email, and they could help me. Never been so happy to get one of those, as i could actually abuse the person on the other end :-)

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

Are you in marginal seats?
Here in the bluest of blue, we just get ignored and pay for election promises to win seats elsewhere.

[xelasnave]

Originally Posted by AussieTrooper

Are you in marginal seats?
Here in the bluest of blue, we just get ignored and pay for election promises to win seats elsewhere.

Sky blue here.
Maybe targeting old men with beards...
Unbelievable.
Alex

[AndrewJ]

Gday Ben
I used to be in Kooyong, but in the last election, my street got moved to Higgins. It appears the Greens are pushing to oust the incumbent ( O'Dwyer ) and it might be close, so i guess thats why.
I hate all this cr@p as they are just a pack of mass produced sock puppets when it comes to the final votes.

Andrew ( sick of em all )

PS
I just had a good thought on how they can fund their campaigns without hitting the public purse. As they are ( in a round about way ) "learning new skills" in the hope of getting a better job, maybe they could be forced to take out a HECS debt to fund their application, and then pay it back if successfull.

Andrew

[leon]

Haven't had one to date, not that I am hoping i will.

Leon

[Larryp (Laurie)]

I have been getting 2-3 robot calls per day for the last 2 weeks, plus at least 4 political surveys per week. So much for the "Do not Call" register!

[michaellxv (Michael)]

We've had the pleasure of hanging up on the PM no less

[Nikolas (Nik)]

Even getting them on my mobile but at least I can block those calls

[guipago (Geoff)]

If it all gets too much www.donotcall.gov.au register, during election time mp's can give you a call to get all touchy, feely with ya, so it could have been the real thing!
Kinda reminds me of the song "looking for love in all the wrong places" Lucky You!

[Allan_L (Allan)]

Originally Posted by AussieTrooper

Are you in marginal seats?
Here in the bluest of blue, we just get ignored and pay for election promises to win seats elsewhere.

Thats it Ben.

Had 2 "personal" (pre-recorded) calls from Julie Bishop and 3 calls from Malcolm so far.
In the latest one, Malcolm told me we were in one of 15 key marginal seats that he needed to achieve a win for Liberals.

The funniest occurrence was when Julie Bishop rang and my wife (who is hard of hearing) answered. At the end she could not work out why she got a call from the "Jilliby Shop".
[Jilliby being a suburb not far from here.]

As far as do not call register is concerned, don't forget that it does not apply to calls from "Charities" or "Political" calls.

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

Originally Posted by AndrewJ

Gday Ben
I used to be in Kooyong, but in the last election, my street got moved to Higgins. It appears the Greens are pushing to oust the incumbent ( O'Dwyer ) and it might be close, so i guess thats why.
I hate all this cr@p as they are just a pack of mass produced sock puppets when it comes to the final votes.

Andrew ( sick of em all )

PS
I just had a good thought on how they can fund their campaigns without hitting the public purse. As they are ( in a round about way ) "learning new skills" in the hope of getting a better job, maybe they could be forced to take out a HECS debt to fund their application, and then pay it back if successfull.

Andrew

I reside in Kooyong, though am temporarily staying in Melbourne Ports.

The difference is startling. Nobody gives a crap about you in Kooyong (nothing but a bit of junk mail from the Libs, and certainly nobody listening to what you want), but in the marginal Melbourne Ports, there's doorknocking, constant junk mail, and campaigning at tram stops. Most of it is the Greens. They seem very active this election compared to the past.

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

Originally Posted by Allan_L

Thats it Ben.

Had 2 "personal" (pre-recorded) calls from Julie Bishop and 3 calls from Malcolm so far.
In the latest one, Malcolm told me we were in one of 15 key marginal seats that he needed to achieve a win for Liberals.

The funniest occurrence was when Julie Bishop rang and my wife (who is hard of hearing) answered. At the end she could not work out why she got a call from the "Jilliby Shop".
[Jilliby being a suburb not far from here.]

As far as do not call register is concerned, don't forget that it does not apply to calls from "Charities" or "Political" calls.

I don't really get any. I had one automated survey, and that's it.
It would be better to have them competing for your vote though and maybe even having to listen, even if it means that you have to put up with this rubbish once every couple of years.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Ben

I reside in Kooyong, though am temporarily staying in Melbourne Ports. The difference is startling.

Yep, same here.
Kooyong just took you for granted, and hence ( probably ) kept their campaining money for themselves and their privately catered do's .
Now it appears that i'm part of the chard sucking, sushi munching, left wing, sunday socialist, hipster greenies, so anything goes and everyone is desperate for the votes, as they reckon they have a chance

Andrew

[xelasnave]

I think I am a grey greenie red neck leftist nationalist.
Who should I vote for.
Well all jokes aside I do think we are very lucky that lawyers are predominant in our politics.
This means politics is talk talk talk.
Think of a situation where military folk are the predominant political aspirents.
There are examples and so I say we are lucky.
I wonder how we would go if the talent was mainly engineers for example.
Mmmm. mainly doctors? or mainly artists.
Or perhaps some other calling.
Alex

[pgc hunter]

The other day I got a message in my voice mail at 8 in the evening. Thinking it might be a job offer I had a listen, only for there to be a good 30 seconds of silence, and just as I was about to hang up, a female voice apologising for the inconvenience came on and asked me for 2 minutes of my time to hear what the PM has to say about blah blah blah....

This where our taxpayer dollars are going folks. To piss people off at dinner time. This is how they expect to get votes? This does nothing but increase their chances of getting a series of 4 letter words and drawings of our esteemed pollies with phalli on their heads on my voting paper.

[AussieTrooper (Ben)]

Originally Posted by xelasnave

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I wonder how we would go if the talent was mainly engineers for example.
Mmmm. mainly doctors? or mainly artists.
Or perhaps some other calling.
Alex

I had an interesting conversation along those lines the other day. What exactly would happen if everyone was actually competent in their jobs and did what was right?
Would we all be out of a job because the weeks work got done by Monday afternoon?
Would we all be able to go on holidays to an orbital resort around Saturn?
Would we chew through the earth's resources so quickly that there was nothing left?

Perhaps a combination of engineers, accountants and doctors running the show would work???
In any case, banning lobbyists would be a good start.

[AndrewJ]

Gday Alex

Well all jokes aside I do think we are very lucky that lawyers are predominant in our politics.
This means politics is talk talk talk.

Except for the fact that these pollies make laws that are so full of holes that we need to employ more lawyers every time something happens.
( I like how lawyers are in the only job where you can get a guaranteed high wage to stuff up 50% of the time. )
This constant need for fresh ( and now very expensive ) legal "interpretation" in our adversarial legal system is killing off the little guys ability to afford justice, and pretty soon, people will start to just ignore the laws and do what they want.

Andrew

[xelasnave]

Well think of the jobs you could do away with.
Cut back to feeding, clothing, housing and health.
No horse racing, well all forms of racing out, professional sport advertising sex industry, fashion, holidays gaming etc etc.
Who are those folk is USA armish harmish whatever oh get rid of religious stuff you want that do it at home.
And get rid of all those animals that eat our food, look at the krill those dam whales eat, and those sea birds no wonder fish prices are thru the roof.
All that art and music do we need it no.
And even then who would be left apart from farmers doctors and builders... Lawyers thats who and therefore politicians.
In the Russian revolution lawyers were the only profession not to be targetted..
Get rid of money and you can only trade your own goods or labour.
I think I am developing and appealling platform here.

But the gst will go up so buy what you want now... That crap about state taxation tells me the future.
You can trust them you know... Trust them to impose a new tax.
Alex

[Kunama]

There is a button on the side of my phone that prevents all this telemarketing.... Saves on battery life too...