Managers of Reddit, what’s the fastest you’ve had a new hire quit?

It... really really does. I am at a desk that has a published land line 5 days/week. So, so, so many calls, every day. I'm used to most of them- partially or fully automated, I just interrupt if it's a human and say "nothankyou" and hang up mid spiel. Whatever. It's been that way for years.

But, this last month, this place in a nearby state got my number. It was always the same dude, always the same number. They were "selling advertising for the local golf course". Newsflash, it was a big fat lie, I got angry enough to ask finally.

So, it always went "Hi, this is Skip from Lying Weasels Inc, on behalf of Oblivious Local Golf course!" I ended up getting pissed after one day of it and saying please stop fucking calling, put us on the DNC list, basically knock it the fuck off. After 10+ calls from Skip, showing the same company name and number I googled it despite being busy. It was totally a scam.

The response was gold "Well I can't remove you from Yelp. That's where we get our call list." With extra salt. So I was annoyed by the end of the day.

Next morning Skippy gets an employee on the phone and she's newish, flailing around and getting her time wasted by the assmunch. By then I've spoken to the golf course owner (small town) and done my googling. I grabbed the phone and lost my temper. I told him if he ever called again I would personally make sure he regretted it.

I definitely picture a coke snorting miserable wage slave on the other end of the call. I felt bad losing my shit at him later, actually. I don't blow up much as an actual adult but I tried polite all damn day.

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