I work in an office which (like many others) uses copiers. We regularly get calls from people we’ve dubbed “Toner Pirates”. Here’s how they operate – they call and act like your best friend as they tell you they are the ones who supply your company with toner, and they just need to verify the model number. An unwitting person goes along, and before they know what hit them, they’re receiving toner at MSRP pricing along with a bill (how these people can operate legally is beyond me). They’ve taken telemarketing to a whole new level by tricking people.
I’m on to their game, and when I get one of the calls, I give the person a fake model number and laugh when they can’t find it. I then tell them to get a real job and hang up. Today when I got one of these calls I told the woman “No, you won’t find that model number, you’re a toner pirate & you suck”. In my mind she rates below a telemarketer (which I can’t STAND) and she should expect to get some bitter people on the other end of one of her calls.
Well, about 10 seconds later, the phone rings, I pick it up and it’s her again. She says to me (and I quote) “You need to find a guy to suck your ****, you sound really gay on the phone” and promptly hangs up. My co-workers are standing around, and ask me what she said. When I tell them, we all had the
look on our faces. I’ve had these people call me “jerk” after realizing I was messing with them, but after 10 years I’ve NEVER had anyone call me back & say something so egregious. I really hoped it wasn’t long after that that she was being walked out the front door. I can’t imagine such an action being tolerated in any business, even one as shady as this.
