define('DISABLE_WP_CRON', true);{"id":875,"date":"2007-05-03T18:48:51","date_gmt":"2007-05-03T07:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/?p=875"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T13:00:00","slug":"get-a-clue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/875\/","title":{"rendered":"get a clue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>since we&#8217;ve switched over to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iinet.com.au\/\">iiNet<\/a> for our phone &#038; net connection &#8211; i&#8217;ve had weekly calls from Telstra asking me to switch back to them. fine, that&#8217;s good you want some business. i deal with alot of telemarketers from all kinds of places and i&#8217;ve always told them nicely when we&#8217;re not interested. no big deal. <\/p>\n<p>however today broke the camel&#8217;s back &#8211; in the space of 8 hours, i&#8217;ve had 5 different &#8216;sales&#8217; people from Telstra call me for the <i>same bloody thing<\/i>. each time i&#8217;ve declined politely, but the last call &#8211; the 6th, 10 minutes ago &#8211; pushed my button a little more than i&#8217;d usually let it &#8230; i&#8217;m having a hard time today and i can&#8217;t handle getting up 1,000 times to answer the phone and deal with this nonsense again. <\/p>\n<p>i don&#8217;t understand how they don&#8217;t have a system where they mark down who they&#8217;ve called and who&#8217;s expressly told them not to call back as they&#8217;re not interested &#8230; i&#8217;m sure they&#8217;d save man power if they had some sort of list going. <\/p>\n<p>gah!!! <\/p>\n<p>p.s. remind me to check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.donotcall.gov.au\/\">this<\/a> once it&#8217;s back online. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>since we&#8217;ve switched over to iiNet for our phone &#038; net connection &#8211; i&#8217;ve had weekly calls from Telstra asking me to switch back to them. fine, that&#8217;s good you want some business. i deal with alot of telemarketers from all kinds of places and i&#8217;ve always told them nicely when we&#8217;re not interested. no [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anything-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=875"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/875\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sh1ft.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}