Probably been raised already...
...but I hate those fucking automated recording ones. Oh yes.

I mean, the point of call centres is to sell something at a profit over the phone with the minimum of effort, more accurately the minimum cost to those profiting in any meaningful sense from the sales. That's galling enough as practices go, but on that score the automated ones just take the piss.

They have one advantage, however. You can say what you like to them without at best offending or at worst expecting a subsequent visit from the Police. The satisfaction almost makes up for the insult.
(thatblokeoverthere not quite as much an arsehole as I thought, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 23:24, 1 reply)

I think I might have bought something
Had another one of those tonight, hung up, then checked again later, voice still going.
I pressed various buttons to try make it stop, to be met with the words
'Thank you for your interest'
Hung up again

:(
(insomniac-surfer oh go on then, just this once, Tue 8 Sep 2009, 23:48, closed)