Why do companies spamming my office’s fax machine expect us to do all the leg work to cancel their shitty spam advertisements? I just had to get my assistant to make fourteen, yes FOURTEEN calls to get us removed from spam lists and I keep getting more from other companies. This latest one demands you quote a reference ID number. Seriously, dickwads?
Well FUCK. YOU. How’s about I spam YOUR fax with the garbage you’re sending me? 5 or 6 times a day might do the trick. Douchebagels. —Annoyed
This article appears in May 31 – Jun 6, 2012.
Las personas todavía utilizan máquinas de fax? Usted sólo debe convertir todos tus documentos a PDF a través de la trama a PDF oa través de escáner.
Some offices can’t do that.
My office has one central fax machine for the entire office and has no secretary…. so there’s no central person to send them to to distribute the email.
And trust me, no one would volunteer for that job.
I don’t know why companies haven’t realized that fax-marketing is just a pain in the ass and just angers your intended audience instead of enticing them to buy your shit.
Well just how the hell else is former Liberian President-For-Life, Charles Taylor’s, sister-in-law supposed to raise money for his appeal. Those blood diamonds aren’t exactly going to sell themselves, now, are they? Cripes people, is “Think Globally, Act Locally” THAT DIFFICULT TO UNDERSTAND?
PK …. Se tarda muy poco tiempo para imprimir en PDF por correo electrónico a continuación a cabo. Se llama listas de correo. Correos electrónicos de comunicación son simplemente demasiado perezoso y cualquiera que lo haga probablemente no debería tener un trabajo en el primer lugar. Yo sólo puedo hablar por mí mismo y de la industria que trabajan en cuando. Nos encontramos con un montón de documentos que se envían a muchas oficinas diferentes y el sistema funciona bastante bien. La tecnología no debe ser temido, que debe ser emraced!
Lo que estoy diciendo es que un simple programa se puede descargar de forma gratuita puede hacer la mayor parte del trabajo por usted.
we did what you suggested op, i think we sent them back approximately twenty faxes. it worked and we giggled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_fax
there was lots of ink, we don’t get faxes anymore. we do get the “is the owner or manager there?” i just say no and hang-up
Next on A&E, FAX WARS…….
I didn’t realize this was a thing that existed. O.O
FAXGATE 2012!
I didn’t know people still faxed…
seems kinda outdated.
I understand what you’re saying, zilla, but NO ONE wants the job over here. People are responsible for checkin’ the fax machines for their faxes.
It’s crazy how much the fax machine is used in my office, zed.
Our healthcare system is also heavily reliant on fax.
PK ….. El concepto apenas se parecen a mí como que no es racional y más trabajo de lo necesario, pero tal vez eso es porque estoy muy a gusto con mi sistema de companines.
Diferentes estilos para diferentes personas, supongo.
Contractors and Developers use fax machines everyday. At least they do in Halifax
ok… given they do… fine.
the true question is WHY?
what is the true REQUIREMENT to keep faxing?
even a shitty iphone would render it useless.
Because you can’t stamp or ink your signature into an iPhone… not yet anyways.
Contract documents and Bid proposals need to be hand signed by the person responsible. Legal bureaucracy and all that
those do not call or email lists are fucking hilarious. reminds me of an episode on the royal canadian air farce show once. i feel for you tho, had this shit happen to me more than once. i even went so far as to tell them on phone, that next time i got shit from their company, that i would personally blow it the fuck up. to this day, zip all from them. sometimes you just gotta go the extra mile with these clowns.
but seriously, some of them don’t take no, for an answer. and these fucking internet ad pop ups are getting to be the same way lately, even on here.
Completeley off-topic, but I believe Mr. Bluenoser in BC will be overjoyed at this news: http://live.haligonia.ca/halifax-ns/halifa…
haha, awesome
step 1. get an old faxmodem w/ software
step 2. go to Project Gutenberg, download their entire catalogue. in every language available.
step 3. use faxmodem to send the whole damn thing to the fax-spammer. This may take a while.
step 4: peace & quiet!
If shock-value is a bonus, sending a generous and repeating assortment of the more distasteful varieties of NSFW material may also work.
You could always bring the fax machine to a field and pummel it with a baseball bat. Worked for the copier in Office Space.
I thought the e-mails with attachments would render the fax obsolete. Apparently not.
Yeah, fax machines are obsolete. My insurance company wanted me to fax them something and sign it but I don’t have a fax machine because I’m in my 20s, so I just scanned my signature and emailed it to them.
Easy there GRAMBO (LS), don’t you ever get tired of idle threats. Did you hear laughter on the other end of the phone, or did you hang up too fast?
The thing about email is that it can be easily intercepted (without anyone else knowing), so it’s not really ideal for sending confidential information (e.g. someone’s medical records).
Captain,
you don’t sign with an ink pen when receiving a parcel…
it requires a signature. Plenty of credit card purchases have digital signatures.
touchscreen tech is nothing new… Mel gets it. This shit’s obsolete.
now that analog TV is gone, this faxing business is next on the chopping block.
Ohh I know it’s obsolete, but most of the industry ‘professionals’ don’t seem to understand what you’re talking about. When I was working for an engineering company I did exactly what Mel was talking about. I used Adobe to transfer the engineers signature and stamp to the drawings or specs.
I want to see the end of paper munching machines in general. There’s no sense of printing off hundreds of sheets of paper when you can PDF the whole god damn thing, save some trees, and be able to send an infinite number copies to an infinite number of recipients. The only things you’d be using is data.
Hay now, Zed, I still sign for my office supplies on a sheet!
Did you get your assistant to write your bitch as well?
we don’t use the fax much, mainly the scanner. it made things easier when i was getting passports, the boy scanned his license etc