Whats rustling your jimmies?

Just got a new form of robot scam call. I answer the phone and it starts hacking up a lung, then says, sorry about that, allergies. I mean it was disgusting sounding. Snorting and hacking and blowing.

I was like cool. I don't talk to clankers, say hot dog to prove you're a real person.

dial tone.

I don't even understand what their game is.

I get packages delivered all around my house. If they don't take a picture, it's an easter egg hunt every time I get something. Most of the time packages get delivered to the front door or to a box we setup under the carport specifically for packages. Once in a while people put them inside the box and it always takes us days to remember to check there. Those spots are all covered, but sometimes they also put them just outside the carport, or on the steps to the deck outside of the carport. My favorite so far has been behind the rear tire of a car that wasn't under the carport. Just maximum "Fuck You" with that placement. That package had been run over and then reboxed and I'm thinking they put it there so we'd think we did it. When I opened it I could still clearly see tread marks on the inside package.

Mostly they get put in a place safe from the rain though. Recently I had a few packages in a row being put outside the carport and I realized that they only do that shit when it's raining. There just happened to be some severe flooding in the area over a few days and suddenly they couldn't be assed to get anything under cover? Fucking assholes. This is why I don't hesitate to order 50 lbs of lead ingots and have them delivered.

Goatface said:

i read your post early, got a robo call, after the "chick" said hello, i said hotdog and they hung up.

while back got a call, "guy" starts coughing "that was tougher than my mother-in-law's meatloaf

Click to expand...

I'm still getting a lot that seem to be calling just to see if someone answers. I answer, say hello, and silence, then hang up. Only thing I can think is someone was expecting someone to answer in a foreign language, or clankers mapping out which phone numbers have humans attached for later.

Control said:

I'm sure some of it tracking/logging somehow, but I think their automation is just buggy sometimes too. I just don't answer the phone any more. If it's not important enough for someone to leave a message, it wasn't important enough to interrupt my day.

Click to expand...

My usual stance is if it doesn't come across with a caller ID I recognize as a person I want to talk to, then I don't answer. Lately that has been loosened a little as I am starting to do some "job market exploration" and other things.....

Dimensional weight if it’s strangely sized. Essentially at certain tiers of package size, it’ll rate as what they expect something that size will weigh regardless of actual weight. Not sure if this has been updated recently.

Haus said:

Only thing I can think is someone was expecting someone to answer in a foreign language

Click to expand...

One of the reasons I've started answering in italian.

"Bobbita Boopi"

But most of the time I answer and hang up so they don't leave a fucking 4 second empty voicemail that AT&T can't just delete automatically for some reason.