Frickin’ Telstra!

Posted November 21, 2005

So I got a call on the land line a few seconds ago…

[silence]
[click]
Me: “Hello, Matt speaking.”
Indian Woman: “Hello, Mr Lambie?
Me: “Yeah, speaking.”
Indian Woman: “Hi I’m calling from Telstra. I want to make sure you’re getting the maximum discount on your land line.”
Me: “Yeah, I’m sure you do. I’m actually quite busy at the moment.”
Indian Woman: “Well when is a good time to call back?”
Me: “Never. Thanks, bye.”

If only I didn’t need a land line for the ADSL…Steve, when were you going to price me up that damn wifi access?

5 Comments so far

  1. emma on November 21st, 2005

    Just unplug the phone or set the ring to silent.

  2. emma on November 21st, 2005

    Hehe, I think that was actually Mark who made that comment. I must have been the last one to comment on lambie.org on his laptop and it’s remembered me :)

  3. Fitzy on November 21st, 2005

    obviously worth remembering then!

  4. Lanzon on November 21st, 2005

    Indian Woman: “Hi I’m calling from Telstra. I want to make sure you’re getting the maximum discount on your land line.”

    If the maximum discount isn’t 100% I’m not interested.

  5. Jimmy Jules on November 21st, 2005

    There is no discount with Telstra, isnt it the other way round.

    “Hi I’m calling from Telstra. I wanted to make sure your getting charged at Maximum rate as you may or may not know we just throw in random numbers that you havent called onto your phone bill and expect you to pay for them!”

    Telstra sucks… which may explain why my home address and phone number is listed in the phone book as Mr and Mrs Hunter instead of my actual real family name.. Oh wait thats right thats my new identity that the FBI gave me….