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What is it with companies these days? :-)
The background: Modern Roofing sent salesdroids to my door. They said some magic words "We take away the asbestos for free" so I said yeah, sure, arrange a meeting. So, they tell me, 11 on Sunday. Cool. And some one will ring and confirm. Between Friday and Sunday. Cool.
They do indeed confirm.
Sunday morning, John risks life and limb to pry me out of bed. I'm sure you've all noticed in my recurring whining the issue of sleep right now. :-) I get up, and start staggering around the house while john is being chipper at me. The phone rings, John has hands full of baby, so I answer it.
Modern have double booked themselves, he's not going to lie to us, they've just got so many people in our suburb that they can't come after all. But in a way this is good for us because we can use it for leverage to get a better deal off them. Sleep deprived and barely awake, I ask for a box of chocolates as well, which the salesman heartily agrees that they can provide. I then say "Talk to John" and hand the phone over and go find my coffee.
John says "Hmmm. You rang us YESTERDAY and are ringing 20 minutes before you're supposed to be here TODAY.... No, we don't want to move the booking, we don't want to see you."
Ok. So, seems reasonably straight forward, yes? Well anyway, a minute ago the phone rings again. It's Modern again. I go "I'm sorry, my husband told you we don't want to see you after all." "Oh, was that your husband was it?" Disbelieving, I ask him: "Did you think I would just hand you on to any one standing around my house?" Obviously, this is one of the lesser asked questions of sales folk. "What?" This time, I forced a laugh and said it again. "Oh, no, of course not," was his reply, he kind of gabbled for a bit, which lead me to believe he didn't actually LISTEN to the question before he finally said OK and went away before I managed to make him somehow hang up on me. Like most people of his ilk do.
:-)
The background: Modern Roofing sent salesdroids to my door. They said some magic words "We take away the asbestos for free" so I said yeah, sure, arrange a meeting. So, they tell me, 11 on Sunday. Cool. And some one will ring and confirm. Between Friday and Sunday. Cool.
They do indeed confirm.
Sunday morning, John risks life and limb to pry me out of bed. I'm sure you've all noticed in my recurring whining the issue of sleep right now. :-) I get up, and start staggering around the house while john is being chipper at me. The phone rings, John has hands full of baby, so I answer it.
Modern have double booked themselves, he's not going to lie to us, they've just got so many people in our suburb that they can't come after all. But in a way this is good for us because we can use it for leverage to get a better deal off them. Sleep deprived and barely awake, I ask for a box of chocolates as well, which the salesman heartily agrees that they can provide. I then say "Talk to John" and hand the phone over and go find my coffee.
John says "Hmmm. You rang us YESTERDAY and are ringing 20 minutes before you're supposed to be here TODAY.... No, we don't want to move the booking, we don't want to see you."
Ok. So, seems reasonably straight forward, yes? Well anyway, a minute ago the phone rings again. It's Modern again. I go "I'm sorry, my husband told you we don't want to see you after all." "Oh, was that your husband was it?" Disbelieving, I ask him: "Did you think I would just hand you on to any one standing around my house?" Obviously, this is one of the lesser asked questions of sales folk. "What?" This time, I forced a laugh and said it again. "Oh, no, of course not," was his reply, he kind of gabbled for a bit, which lead me to believe he didn't actually LISTEN to the question before he finally said OK and went away before I managed to make him somehow hang up on me. Like most people of his ilk do.
:-)
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Modern Roofing
Date: 2006-05-29 02:34 am (UTC)From:Re: Modern Roofing
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Date: 2006-05-29 09:28 am (UTC)From:It was great to see you on Sunday; hope you felt better after a bit of a rest.
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