wow. #hotTake.

I have no debts. Don’t even carry a balance on a credit card. And yet, I spent weeks last fall wrangling with a debt collector who was convinced that I was someone named Janice who owed them money. None of the information they had for Janice matched me (name, age, address, etc) except the phone number. But they…

I’ve gotten calls related to someone’s debt I’ve never heard of. Some old lady who probably got confused and put the wrong number down when she applied.I knew she was old because only really old people had her first name.

I also do not have any debt.
But I got a new cell phone number a year or so ago. I get robocalls on my cell phone now. The same company .. a company that wants to make a loan to me. I think a pay day loan.
I have done everything to get them to stop and they will not stop calling! They call two or three times a day…

I have no debts (beyond the up to date mortgage) and I have been on the receiving end of debt collector calls for years. They are scum, robocalls need to be illegal. There are currently no protections for people who do not have debt from debt collectors. There are no requirements for them to maintain or follow do not…

I have zero debt and get debt collector robocalls constantly. If I were a person with debt, or perhaps elderly or more gullible, I could se this becoming something far worse than an annoyance.

I hope you never lose your job. I hope you never face unexpected and crushing debt due to something like medical costs. I also hope you don’t get your identity stolen, because that’s always the victim’s fault.

Identity theft victims have to deal with debt collectors. I pay all my bills in full. Get off the high horse.

Same here, but I also try not to judge other people’s decisions based on my own situation. I don’t think it has anything to do with victimizing or keeping the government from collecting their debts. It’s just setting up guidelines so those calls don’t get out of hand—preventing calls to friends and family members, for…

Oh, goodie...More collector calls for the person who had my cell phone number before me..*sigh*

My little brother is a deadbeat so I get calls from collection agents looking for him all the time.

When they call I instantly interrupt them and demand to talk to their supervisor. Then I tell their supervisor that my brother lives in Las Vegas and that’s all I know and that he owes me money too and never to call me…

Here is the issue, yes you should pay your debts however and this has happened to me. My new phone number was once someone elses who had a debt issue and I received their calls for 3 years even though I said their number had changed.

The FCC just needs to require that, in order to use the cellular networks and landlines, full meaningful Caller ID data *MUST* be part of the data. If a business, the name must show the business represented by the call. Eliminate “unknown caller” or just the location state/city. Caller ID worked great in the past but…

Mr. Does Not Travel Well -

Potato ricer works great.

Mr. “Spit it out”. This is the guy who goes, “Hey, quick question”, then takes 20 seconds to start saying anything. And when he does, cant seem to form words.

I thought the first rule of airports is that you always act like it’s the first time you have ever been to one. This is just based on observation of everyone else, though, so I might be wrong.

Assume that you have to do everything... What I mean by that is that I can’t tell you how many times I’ve seen people leave their shoes (or belts) on because they either saw one person go through with shoes on, or they didn’t hear the TSA person say it to them before they got their stuff on the belt. When people don’t…

Personally, the worst kind of coworker is the one that does next to nothing but complains about having to be at work. I’m so sorry you have to physically be at work to get paid for attendance. These folks come in and split their time between prancing around the office, online shopping, and taking 2 dozen smoke breaks.…

The Vanisher -
The Vanisher will send an email, using words like “Urgent”, “Showstopper”, “ASAP” and disappear immediately after. All attempts to contact the Vanisher are futile, phone calls go to voicemail. When finally you give up and begin working on another task, the Vanisher will contact you asking why you…