We got my daughter an iPhone when she turned 13 back in March. She got a brand new number, and has only used it to call and text her friends. Her number has never been given out to register for any account other than at AT&T (our carrier).
Over the past month, she has been absolutely bombarded with spam texts and telemarketer calls, usually receiving 6-10 every day. While most of them aren’t porn-ish (although there have been a couple), they’re all very ridiculous for a 13-year-old to receive. “Want to make more money? Put this wrap on your car and we’ll pay you $400 a week!” “Your XX Credit Union account has been locked. Click here to reset.” “Your student loan is in default, call us immediately or get thrown in jail”. That sort of thing.
Since her new number hasn’t been given out to anyone other than a dozen or so contacts, I can only assume that AT&T is happily selling her number to marketers the instant we signed up for the new account. That kinda pisses me off, tbh.
I think you’re right to be pissed off. It always irks me how I get random calls or texts from “unusual” sources. I wish I had a good solution to offer, instead all I do is commiserate with you.
I switched from Sprint (when it existed) to AT&T and I have never hated a service more. I receive likely 10 SPAM calls a day and a text every once in a while.
Are you sure it’s a brand new number, that has never been used before? I have always assumed that carriers recycle numbers, when someone closes and old number it’s reassigned to a new customer.
Ordered something from Lowes on 4th of July weekenf to be delivered today. Their window for when it would arrive was between 8 am and 8 pm. Not ideal but i work from home so not that inconvenient. Its still not here. No texts, no calls no emails. Their onine tracking simply says, were running a little behind. Sigh, just a little bit of communication would go a long way.
Sigh. Mrs CCU has been in San Diego last several days. Her flight from San Diego to ATL was delayed, causing her to miss her flight to RDU. Now she arrives at RDU 3 hrs later than planned. At least Delta got her onto the last fight to RDU from ATL for the day. Still stinks.
Over the weekend my wife, sister, & BIL were talking about a new cliche that’s getting popular in the media: “That changes the calculus.” No, it doesn’t. It doesn’t change the processes of the specific mathematical discipline called, “Calculus.” To my knowledge, nothing has made it so the first derivative of 2x^3 is no longer 2/3x^2, nor that the first integral of a polynomial equation yields the area under its curve in an x-y plot. The calculation may have changed, but calculus abides.
Pet peeve of the hour is people that use REPLY ALL instead of REPLY when only the sender has any need to know whether our individual answers is yes or no.
But out of about 20 of us who just need to send a simple answer to the sender, half will use the REPLY ALL and flood everyone else’s inbox.
When my sister worked for HP in Ft. Collins someone did a reply to all for someone’s going away gathering at a local pub with a comment along the lines of, “I’ll be there with my dick out and ready.” Suffice it to say the HR people in distribution weren’t amused.
I was reminded again yesterday of the pet peeve I have harped on for a while here. I’m cruising up I-15 in Utah County (a place I do not like to drive), going 2 or 3 miles above the speed limit with my cruise control functioning perfectly. Suddenly I am tailgated. There’s an empty lane on my right on my left. I refuse to get out of the way, because I’m sick of doing that in those circumstances. So I keep the cruise control at 73 mph. Finally the driver behind me (a pickup truck, of course) passes me on the left, probably in about 80 mph, and gives me a dirty look as he does so. I smile. But it is a bitter smile.
