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17 December 2009

Pranked by "the Internet" →[More:]Just received a phone call from someone asking about pizzas and restaurant recommendations. We get a lot of misguided phone calls because the calls to the sales office for [INSERT FANCY NEW DEVELOPMENT BUILDING IN WEST CHELSEA] get automatically routed to our office by Washington Square Park, so this was not new.

What was new was that the caller sounded young and somewhat confused. I used all my Disney call center training and mojo to try to get more information and the person became rather belligerant, saying that they would tell me what they needed, etc.

Then, the call veered into Crazytown.

When I asked the caller if I could help with real estate needs, he then asked if he could legally shoot people who were on his property. I replied that it was a question more for the authorities or his attorney, and btw, who am I speaking to?

The name? P.I. Staker.

You can read about more exploits by this pranker here.

post by: TrishaLynn at: 15:12 | 3 comments

oh nice. I had a bonafide brush with The Crazy a few minutes ago myself. Was down at the front desk when the receptionist took a call that, for lack of better description, I'd award the Nutjob Of The Month Prize. The caller ultimately rambled on for almost fifteen minutes about conspiracies and animal rights, despite Receptionist's best efforts to direct them to the proper channels. Seems said Nutjob was apparently watching telly when they saw some ad about one of Big Pharmaco's commercial products that set them off. Incensed, said Nutjob apparently "looked it up on The Google, so I KNOW this is the right phone number, don't you lie to me ... I wanna speak to your SUPERVISOR!!!..." I am not making this up, that is a direct quote from the transcript. side note: as our site handles dangerous chemicals in fairly large quantities, we are required by Homeland Security (thanks, Shrub) to record and transcribe threatening calls, which as the legal admin onsite, yep, you guessed it, I'm the one who takes care of this :-|

disregard, if you will, that where I work is a bulk (crude chemicals) manufacturing site. We are no more involved with commercial (fine drugs) products than a steel mill is associated with an AK-47. And there are something like 200 worldwide sites and over 80,000 employees, and the marketing team that's ACTUALLY responsible for approving the ad is likely asleep in Europe right now, actually.

But somehow WE are to blame in some dippy shut-in's conspiracy theory, all because we happen to have a local phone number and are a subsidiary and OH BY THE WAY I READ IT ON THE INTERNET THEREFORE IT MUST BE TRUE!!!!111

posted by lonefrontranger 17 December | 16:16

One of many Skype using prankers found you, like those who chat here.

posted by filthy light thief 17 December | 16:29

TrishaLynn. . .what I want to know is, do you have Prince Albert in a can?

posted by danf 17 December | 18:04

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