What is wrong with people who accidentally dial the wrong number, and when informed of their mistake by the recipient of said call, they just HANG UP? Why do people think this is acceptable? In what planet does, “Oh I’m sorry, I’m afraid you have the wrong number,” warrant a blank pause and a hang up? Is it excusable because you don’t know the person? It’s totally not rude because you’ll never know who they are and who cares anyway? Unbelievable. —Stop Calling Me
This article appears in Jun 9-15, 2011.
At least those ones go away! I like the wrong numbers who insist that who they are looking for is, in fact, at the number they’ve reached. *Or* the ones who get angry at a voice they don’t recognize and rudely ask who you are. I’m sorry. You called me, who might you be looking for, asshat?
Yeah. Those ones are the worst.
Seconded by my co workers father. He once yelled at me because he’s very busy and important and I tried to take a message because co worker was in another part of the building, on a different floor in the middle of some lab work. Noooooo, I had to go find her NOW and hurry, because he was very busy. He’s been instructed not to call the office anymore. 🙂
Drives me crazy.
Its really not that hard to say “Oh, sorry, I’ve got the wrong number.”
Every so often I’ll someone that will not only apologize for dialing incorrectly but they close with “have a nice day!”.
Really people, not that difficult. If you misdial, simply apologize and don’t just slam the phone down without so much as uttering a single word.
I too love the ones who insist they’ve dialed correctly and insist Bob is actually there. Um, no. I’m standing in my home/at work and am 99.9999% sure there is no Bob here, unless he’s really tiny and is hiding somewhere. You’re there, not here, I am and I’m telling you he’s not here. Next time try the correct number. I’m sure you’ll have more success taking that route.
Nope, know what I hate, when people call, you answer and they obviously don’t hear the voice they want and they ask “who is this?” … EXCUSE YOU! You called me …
What I despise is people who see your number on the phone, then give you the pissy “someone just phone me” call.
Obviously I dialed the wrong number. If I had wanted to speak to you, I would have left you a voicemail. No need to call me back and act all accusatory.
I love wrong numbers, you get to talk to new and wonderful people 😉
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NpG0hqTt2go
HH – that drives me too!
“Uh, someone from there just called me?”
Let me see. I work in a building with upwards of 100 other people, plus clients who are in and out throughout the day who may have asked to use our phone. Let me just switch on the telepathy and see if I can’t figure out who of the 100 other people it was that called you.
If it was important they’ll call back. Patience, people, patience. Oh, and try some common sense while you’re at it.
When I worked for the feds in ottawa I kept getting calls from direct energy on my work line about my “overdue account.”
They’d always call after 5pm and I’d always call them back and tell them I had no account with them and that they obviously had the wrong number.
But they kept calling back over and over.
One day they called during the day and I got the actual bill collector and I told them they had the wrong number and the fucker fought with me on the phone and actually told me I’d have to send him proof I wasn’t the person he had called for. Then I told him he had called a federal government department and he actually said “oh. my bad!” and hung up.
I never heard from those fucks again.
At work, people call my department all the time by mistake and when they ask for someone and I’m all “there’s no one here by that name, you have the wrong number” 9 times out of 10 they expect me to know where this person is and to look the correct number up and transfer them! HA! i’m not the switchboard, asshats. No, i just tell them they’ll have to call switchboard and ask for whomever. I used to transfer them, but I have no patience for their entitlement any longer. If they’re nice about it I’ll transfer them to switchboard, but most times they’re quite snotty because apparently them calling a wrong number is ME inconveniencing them.
what’s even worse is back in january when the same student kept calling me grilling me on her student loan and when it would be deposited in her bank account and when I told her that this was the wrong department and even the wrong institution she demanded to be transfered. I did that for her once because i was new in the job and tried to be nice… but then she decided to call every day and I’d answer and she’s say “student loans, please.” Finally I got so fed up I actually said “this is not the student loans department OR the switch board. In the future you will ahve to call the switchboard because you will be told you have the wrong number and to call switchboard.”
She stopped calling after that.
Fuck people are lazy.
DONK & HH: OOOOH I KNOW.
Hugo: my grandmother actually met and became good friend with (for over 25 years) a lady in Alberta when the lady called my grandmother by mistake on a wrong number. My grandmother liked to talk and the woman liked to listen, i guess and they kept in phone contact for years until they actually met. 🙂
OK FINE, third post, but oh holy fricking jesus, I just got a wrong number call for this guy who I got three calls for in the past week and they’re all wrong numbers. I looked up the number after I put the person through to switchboard and this guy’s number isn’t even remotely similar to mine! His department isn’t even similar to mine either! And my number’s been the extension for this position for years upon years.
So irritating.
i detest the ones that keep calling back and then say, maybe you are at the wrong place. no, you fucking idiot, i live here, and you are either too dumb, drunk or stoned, to realize that you keep making mistakes.and i have had my number for over 5 years.
OP, get caller ID. If you don’t recognize the number, don’t answer it. How fucking hard is that? If it’s that critically important, they will leave a message.
I had my first ever wrong number text message last week. Had to tell her literally 3 different times I wasn’t who she was looking for. Thought I was lying to her or something. People are dumber than a fuckin stapler, I tell ya.
It grinds my gears too, when they just hang up.
I always apologize, with a happy voice, and wish them a good day.
that’s because you’re nice sir…how was the thing^^
Sebastian: for most of us, our circle of friends and acquaintances is plentiful. I know that this is hard for you to understand since 99% of the people in your life fucking hate you, but sometimes us regular people get calls from friends/loved ones from a number we might not recognize.
I answer, if I don’t know who they are or if they are trying to sell me something, I let them go in 5 seconds maximum.
I’ve never had a person just call and hang up on me.. and if I did, you can bet I would call them back and say something. Most people are polite. I’ve had a person call twice in a row.. no biggie. If they aren’t rude and at least attempt to be somewhat polite, there’s no problem for me.
Bravo, Naveed, bravo!
When people call and ask, “Who is this” I just fart into the phone receiver and hang up.
it’s the tween wave thing to do…
OMG tommy. I keep getting text messages from some random guy asking me if I’m “available” for a “blow job” and asks me “how much?” A few times he’s asked me to go skinny dipping with him. I have no idea who this guy is, but I always get the msgs at the weirdest time. Last time i went to CB I got one asking me if I wanted to come over and blow him when I was in the bathroom at the tim’s/wendy’s just past truro.
I generally ignore the texts.
LOLZ.
Also: sebastard you dolt — some of us have to answer their phone at work and might not always know the number of the person calling.
Alsox2: i figured out why my extension gets all kinds of weird wrong numbers — aliant’s giving out my extension when people call 411 for the institution’s main switchboad, and main switchboard I am not and my department/extension isn’t even up there alphabetically. FFS.