Telemarketers and Pet Peeves
Just to let everyone know, yes, I indeed am alive, though MIA from blogging for a while. The past 3 weeks or so have just caught up with me. I ain’t as young as I used to be, surviving on 3-5 hours of sleep per night for 2 weeks just ain’t cutting it for me no more 
Anyways, just a quick update with life. Currently in week 13 of uni now, next week will be the last week of uni for this year and then study week and then 2 written exams and 1 viva exam. I’m itching to sit down and get started studying, but there is still 1 more report to write and 2 CAA lab tests to be done.
The shop is getting handed over to the new owners on Monday *fingers crossed* and I’ve got new bosses next week. Speaking of them, they’re really nice bosses to work for. Aunty Juanita and Uncle Clifford and Christina are so very friendly people. The other day, Aunty Juanita was telling us a good way to avoid them pesky telemarketers who keep calling at time when you don’t need them and offering to sell you some random useless product of theirs anyway. So she told us, one day when she answered the phone while she was cooking dinner the telemarketer introduced themselves and started going on their sales pitch. Aunty was thinking, “Iya, I’ve got to chop vegetables now la, where got time to answer all this?”
So next thing she said when the person on the phone asked her something”
“No speaking. No speaking”
That just cracked all of us laughing! When done with an Asian or foreign accent, it works perfectly to deter even the most persistent telemarketer. Now for obvious reasons you can’t use that phrase for the telemarketers who call the shop. So there was one time when I picked up the phone and the person asked to speak to the boss. I asked them, “What is this regarding?” and the person replied, “Oh, your phone line. May I speak with you boss please?”
Knowing that this person is just going to waster everyone’s time, I asked, “Are you trying to sell us something?”
And next thing I knew she put down the phone. Muahahaha….Just one simple question made the person put down the phone. Looks like they didn’t have enough training at telemarketer school 
Mind you, all these call centres are based in India and they probably have a really hard time making sense of the Aussie accent.
Speaking about pet peeves to go crap on about today is the fact that tomorrow is garbage day and we usually set out the bins a day earlier just in case we come back late at night and don’t feel like navigating to the side of the house to drag out the bins. So it was put outside this morning and then right, some IDIOT pushed the bin down when I came home in the evening. It is soooooooooo bloooooody annoying that this happens. Thankfully today the rubbish didn’t fall out of the bin, but this imbecile has been doing this for the past few weeks and it’s driving me nuts!!! The times when the rubbish spills out of the bin are the most disgusting times.
I’m so tempted to put a note on the bin next week to tell the freaking person to stop pushing over the bins. I tell you I’m so close. Next week, I promise I will put the note if the person keeps doing it.
Anyhoo, I am going to go off to continue my report writing since I’m not going to sleep tonight, I might as well take a nap soon. Bah humbug.