Pizza Hut Allegedly Refused To Fix Wrong Number Ad, End Up Closed When The Family Decide To Take Revenge
Reddit user /u/MundaneSeesaw shared a post recently, claiming that a local Pizza Hut had once overloaded their family’s phone line. According to them, the company declined numerous attempts to reason with them, so they did the only thing they could. They took their time executing their carefully crafted revenge plan, making sure the business received what it deserved. Some, however, argued that maybe the punishment was too harsh, to which /u/MundaneSeesaw replied, “[You] clearly never been to some of the smaller towns in the south with populations that are primarily rednecks.” Scroll down to read the entire thing, and if it doesn’t satisfy your thirst for blood, fire up these 91 Revenge Stories That Will Make You Think Twice Before Being An Asshole To Other People.
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Share on FacebookAlthough this is a fun read, I wonder how much time this family wasted. Even in the months with "only" 3-5 calls I had already simply changed my phone number. Even if the fee would have been 50 $, the time lost on the first few calls with idiots would already have been worth it!
So you and your family were too lazy to talk to your phone company and get your own number changed? How is this PH's fault that you have a similar number? The poster I can understand, but the OP goes on about expecting free s**t for the inconvenience the phone company caused by the similarity in numbers. Why keep picking up the phone? Why not block all these random numbers? Why not talk to your phone company? Why not change your own number? OP caused all sorts of trouble over something that wasn't even Pizza Huts fault to begin with. I laughed at the irony of him saying the manager has an ego problem and not him or his family. I hate spoilt little millennials.
I agree with just about everything you said except your assumption that this took place recently. He mentions technology that is much older, and he was 17 at the time. He writes that this was before cell phones, that they later acquired caller id and a phone with a transfer option. That screams early 1980s. I find it ironic that the dad refused to pay the $10 to change his phone number but he is willing to shell out much more than that for both caller id and a new phone with a transfer switch, both of which would have been unnecessary if he just changed his phone number. But noooo he wants PH to pay for it....
Load More Replies...While this started out as fun and games, MundaneSeeSaw lost my sympathy after people were getting roughed up because of his family's tomfoolery. 1. The family never told the restaurant manager that he'd made a mistake in the advertisement? That was a mistake. The ad itself would have been your trump card in any negotiation or legal charge against the business. 2. The family RECORDED conversations. Back in the day before cell phones, that would likely have constituted a federal crime, if done without consent. FCC violation and domestic espionage come to mind. 3. Even in 1977, 10 dollars is about 40 dollars in today's money. Doable even for a father with kids in the house. My family had a phone number that was similar to a local business. We'd get mistaken callers from time to time and we sometimes teased them too, but had anybody gotten hurt because of what we had done, my parents would have stopped it right there.
I up voted this just because you used the word "tomfoolery".
Load More Replies...that was a lot of effort to make some people unhappy.........................yay?
Never seen a better example of lack of common sense. From pizza hut and the family, such a waste of time arguing.
Who would want to waste an entire summer pissing off innocent customers and end up by making a whole bunch of innocent employees lose their jobs? And who would brag about it. It would have been so easy to just change your number. If this is true, I think I know who the jerks were in this story.
Ok fun when you are only talking about pizza - no harm done right. When young my parents landline no was identical (couple of digits transposed) to both the local train station and the main local taxi service. Most of our calls were for one or the other. Would have been completely irresponsible to make up train times for enquirers or tell someone a taxi was on it's way. I was so helpful that I kept an up to date train timetable by the phone - could almost call it my first job - Lol
Wow that's a bit hard to digest. I like a good revenge story as much anyone, but it's a bit shocking how rude people can be where you live, how aggressive. I really feel sorry for anyone working in restaurants over there...
Yeah, I get you, can't imagine someone beats you because they don't get their pizza delivered. Crazy world...
Load More Replies...What kind of person cusses people out for directing them to the proper place? Probably the same kind of people too petty to spend 10 bucks to change their phone number....had you simply changed your number, Pizza Hut still wouldn't get those calls and orders. Good job taking down the big bad corporation, and getting a guy beat up...you are all losers.
I am torn here. I have had the similar phone number to a Taco Bell. Not the same. BUT I also worked as a manager in a pizza place when i was around 20. Young, female, alone in the store for long periods late at night when my drivers were out. I would be terrified at all the angry traffic coming in that I HAD LITERALLY NO IDEA WAS COMING. It is the Owner's fault, and Corporate, but NOT the little guys whose asses were on the line and on the front lines daily. These pranksters have a legitimate complaint, but they seem to take pleasure out of other peoples' pain and beat-downs. This smacks of eating popcorn at a lynching. Not cool, guys. Let me tell you how NOT cool it is: my stores have been held up, people have come in asking for the manager and were looking for the young girl who was running the place. They were looking to hurt ME. And that is not ok.
You lost my sympathy when you said they didn't offer to compensate you for people calling your phone. I'm sure that Pizza Hut had that phone number long before you had yours.
I know. That was the most selfish thing ever and definitely set off warning bells for me that there's more to this story. How about the part the writer doesn't care that people apparently literally got beaten up over this.
Load More Replies...OMG. The stupid is rich in this one. Just change your "friggin" number.
I don't believe this story for one reason. No way Pizza Hut is getting 100-200 calls a day. Worst pizza of any of the chains.
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Load More Replies...What a waste of time! Why couldnt the family just change their phone number? Yes, Pizza Hut was a jerk, but instead of just moving on with their life and changing their phone number they did a much worse thing.
All this trouble cause you dont want to spend 10 dollar? So you ruin a company and make employees lose their job just cause you can and cause you feel entitled too because the manager was an ahole? And you guys didnt even mind getting a different number, cause it would be okay if the pizza place paid for it, so that wasnt an issue either. Wow, all that so save 10 dollar. I would not call this evil or genius, just time-wasting and petty.
I don't get it ... the family keeps saying how "anyone in this position with any merit would change their phone number".... So why didn't the family just put up the $10 and save themselves the headache? Both parties appear to be exceptionally immature and stubborn.
Manager and family are all a******s in this story. Demanding free compensation bc people are stupid and don't listen? No, you're just as redneck as the rest of your small town. Never informing the manager of the misprint was a seriously d**k move of the family, too, but given the manager's response to cuss them out and accuse them of stealing calls or whatever, he's not exactly upstanding citizen. Corporate is actually the only reasonable one here--the family WAS acting illegally by secretly recording calls, and by fraudently posing as employees knowing FULL WELL WHAT THEY WERE DOING. PH Corporate was right to accuse them of stealing calls and of acting illegally. I feel sorry for the employees who had to deal with this nonsense
Hahaha just read your comment in George Takei's voice :)
Load More Replies...But why not be nicer about it like "Hey, you messed up the number on your ad and put ours by mistake will you consider changing your number so it isn't so close to ours, or we can change ous too!" Not "You made a mistake not going to tell what you did wrong but fix it and give us free things, oh and also we will run your business to the ground! and make us the hero in a few years!!"
LOL, if it was so anoying, why did you not change your own phone number, so simple and no F.. bull anymore. Just be a little bit creative using your brain, the reason you have one.
i like the comment about selling the phone number to other pizza places. That's freaking genius!
So how many employees lost their job because of the dad's desire for revenge?
Well, that was petty, childish b******t. No grownups at your house. Here's a suggestion, dipshit. Change your own goddamned phone number instead of getting into a pissing contest with someone who needs to earn a living. ...///... Actually being proud of getting innocent people beaten up is something a five year old would do.
I mean this is a good story but you openly say that multiple staff got beaten up because of you, I can see why the manager got beat up but the staff are just paid to take orders and they got beaten up because of this but it was still a funny story with a happy ending.
This is not a funny story. Too much hassle over a TEN DOLLAR fee. And, they expected free pizza.
Load More Replies...So the issue starts with similar numbers. Then escalates when their number gets listed as a Pizza Hut. The local manager got indignant rather than address the problem. If he would have clued in, he was losing money. Every call that went to the family was not a "potential" customer but an actual one. So they were losing customers daily. Since Pizza Huts are franchises, the corporate office chose not to get involved. The family had been frustrated and decided to have fun with it rather than drive themselves crazy. Had the manager handle it better there would have been no issue. That said, a lot Pizza Huts went out of business in the 80's. I suspect there were other management issues when someone was willing to leave known customers out in the cold like that.
It made me cringe when he said that 10$ was too much to pay for peace and quite at home. Really dude? You were so damn cheap? Sorry, but as much as pizza hut screwed with the ad, they had exactly same base for changing number before the add as you did.
Shame on the father for not teaching his kids how to handle a problem like and adult not a douchebag. He say's they had school I am sure this cause problems with their sleep he must be on welfare and a drunken a-hole. Come on what kind of douchebag puts his family thru this over $10 ! Who actually believes they did not get rude until the manager got rude ? They even said the manager said you have been insulting my customers the douchebag was sitting home drunk acting like tool when the manager may not have had the power to change the number what a loser and he puts it on here like he is proud you make me sick. Oh lets not forget they said they were upset they did not get free stuff definitely welfare people.
Wow...I had a little bit of this happen to me but not on this scale. My number was 703-566-5600 or something really easy I don't remember. Lots of calls for pizza. It only ended when I moved 2 years later because it was my house Phone. I learned a lesson. Never pick an easy number. EVER! I say good good for then. I probably would have given it to another pizza place too. Getting that many calls would have driven me nuts.
A hospital opened up near my shop. The first 3 digits of the shop phone are 797 and the hospital is 799. The last 4 the same The shop got 20-30 calls a day from people (often the same person several times) enquiring about their relative who was in for treatment One day an obnoxious lady phoned 4 times about her husband who had an operation. We politely told her she has mis-dialled, but she was of the opinion that she was right and we were wrong. On the 5th such call, I answered the phone and when I heard the same lady speaking, said "I am sorry, he passed away just now. There was a scream and she hung up Two weeks later the hospital changed the number from 799 to an 0800 number
I worked in a Bank and our phone number was one digit away from the number people had to call to pay the toll for the tunnel under Sydney Harbour. We became so bored answering their calls that we made a quiz, informing callers that if they could answer all questions correctly then their toll was free. Of course no one ever could, as we made the last question ludicrously hard, but it entertained us a lot, and seemed to cheer people up immensely. At least until they received their fine for not paying.....
I read a story about a home that frequently got mistaken for a Papa John's number. Eventually they just made their outgoing answering machine message "This is Papa Don's. We're very busy at the moment and only taking orders in the store."
My nightmare began when they created a new area code for my local area, my the insurance company had my same number, but THEY were assigned the new area code. I got their calls for years, even though I contacted them to try to work out a resolution, to no effect. So, I became the world's worst receptionist and insurance agent, but not towards the elderly, I would give them the correct number to call. Everyone else became fair game...a car dealership called, I told them the person in question had no insurance. No more calls now.
My husbands old boss had a business number that was close to a new attorney that set up shop in the same town. He kept getting phone calls from people that had legal issues and would ignore him stating the name for his computer repair shop. He was surprised how many of them dove into their legal problem without confirming who they'd called. When he expressed to them that he was not, in fact, a lawyer and directed them to the correct number, he'd sometimes get a sheepish 'thank you' and sometimes get yelled at for letting them ramble on. When he expressed to the attorney the issue and clients kept complaining about privacy, the lawyer finally changed his number.....
Back in the late 1950's we lived in a town where they still had a manual exchange our number was Dover 473, The doctors was Dover 47 - when people were in a hurry to get the doctor they would say "47 plea(se)" and the operator would hear "47three"... My mum and dad then they would get through to the Doctorgot very good at calmly telling them not to be so polite to the operator and then they would get through to the doctor. Luckily there were only about 2000 phones in the town so it did not happen too often :-)
Is this real? I always understood that 555 was reserved for TV and movies, so it's not to close to a real phone number.
The numbers have been changed to protect the guilty.
Load More Replies...Wow, a fun read and all but two wrongs don’t make a right. The family should have coughed up the ten bucks and changed their number, FFS.
I "share" a number with an ATV repair shop. The only difference is the number 23 vs 32. And they've even put MY number in their automated mail response! Now, thankfully ATV repairers are apparently not that busy. But I still have to explain to the customers and the company completely ignores my calls and mails. IF THIS HAPPENED TO ME AS OFTEN AS IT DID TO THEM, I WOULD COMPLETELY LOOSE IT! My absolute understanding goes out to you. You pay attention or you just pay! Well done for fighting back! 👍
I am not sure this is true if it is there are two pints to be made first as they put it this could have been avoided by changing the number. They talk about the pizza place but what kind of douchebag doesn't change the number at his home probably one living on welfare. If I was getting calls all day and night I would change my number this person said they had kids I guess them getting sleep for school did not matter. He had a chance to teach his kids o be the better person and instead chose to be a douchebag. Middle managers do not have the power to change corporate telephone numbers an when he did get corporate to agree there was a simple "mistake" This was the reason to act like a douchebag turn your kids into douchebags I don't think so. The manager may not have had a choice and sure this may make corporate responsible but I am willing to bet dollars to doughnuts you did not start making rude answers after you problem with the manager but before that is why he was irate. DOUCHEBAG
Now if we could just shut down the telemarketers since the DO NOT CALL LIST is a worthless piece of government c**p that hasn't worked in years.
Personally, I'd have taken their order and told them it would be ready/delivered in 30 minutes. Then when the pizza guy was a no show, direct them to the "corporate number" and then give them the actual Pizza Hut number. But, these guys did a pretty great job
So Im assumed you'd using the old 90's phone that connected to Ethernet that can mix up the bit of similar both of numbers and yet you'd is pure evil.
We have similar problem, since our phone number is only one numeral off from a local hospital's internal phone number. Our prefix is 558, and theirs is 588, so people are often getting it wrong and calling us from 5 to 10 times a day. Since it's a common error, and those who are calling are doctors and nurses, to either give or get information about patients, we just politely tell them they've dialed wrong and give them the correct prefix. No use getting angry about it, and we don't want to change our number, or ask the hospital to change theirs, so we just live with it.
I once worked at a Blockbuster in a college town, and our number was similar to that of the non-emergency number for the hospital. While we didn't get that many calls for the hospital, we did have one lady who swore up and down that she dialed the right number and that WE were the rude a******s. We tried to politely and calmly explain that she was calling Blockbuster by accident, and gave her the correct number to call, but after about the 3rd time she called us, she started screaming and cussing at us, then started angrily hanging up when we answered. Still don't know if she ever got through to the hospital to check on her relative.
They probably would have gone out of business anyway. Any owner that after placing an add; suddenly gets 200 orders a day less; should investigate why. That is a BIG amount. Since the owner didn't do that, he probably already didn't keep track of orders in some sort of way.. Which is really important. Knowing the busiest days and hours you can schedule employees right. Or have special discounts on certain days. If he doesn't keep track of the amount of orders, he will probably not being keeping track of a whole lot of other stuff. Employee-rights and such. Is he doesn't miss 200 costumers he probably also misses that Debby isn't Kyle and has told her that she isn't allowed to go home for 4 hours now after her shift ended..
I work for a homeless charity and we always get phone calls for an Estate Agent...
I used to get phone calls like that for a hotel. And I know the people doing the calling were not misdialing. My number ended in 1090 and the hotel's ended with 1000. How does someone dialing 000 end up picking their finger up off the 0 and go over to the 9 then back to the 0 ?? Answer? They don't. It's a phone company error.
I work at a large corporation. Our phone number seems to be very similar to a Real Estate company, the Welfare office, the City offices; and we get calls for the Rec Park associated with our company which has a completely different number that nobody seems to be able to find. I get a lot of confused people on the phone looking for a social worker and I'm desperately trying to look up this person in our directory who doesn't exist, telling them that person isn't here multiple times, then they ask, Is this the Welfare office? Ugh.
At least this guy and his sister were older. There is this website where you put in your neighborhood and you can see things going on (like yard sales, if ppl lost their cat/dog) and my dad showed me someone was giving away kittens for free on that website and my dad said since I wanted one of them I would have to call the lady, I did(we ended up texting most of the info anyway) but I was 10-ish at the time and she texted me "Does your parents know about this??? You sound really young" Which, getting the cat was my dads' idea in the 1st place, I said "Yes, my dad is next to me" but anyway good that they were older and nobody really thought anything of it (At 1st anyway)
Inconsiderate and inattentive pizza hut management. Meanspirited and nasty family. Glad I don't anywhere near you inbred thugs.
Did this to a hair salon that did the same thing to me. Try having 200 woman on a Friday at 3PM all thinking they are getting their hair done. ROFLMAO....they changed the numer the next day....
Yeah, I don't see anything here but jerks being jerks to each other. I hope karma gets them all.
Although this is a fun read, I wonder how much time this family wasted. Even in the months with "only" 3-5 calls I had already simply changed my phone number. Even if the fee would have been 50 $, the time lost on the first few calls with idiots would already have been worth it!
So you and your family were too lazy to talk to your phone company and get your own number changed? How is this PH's fault that you have a similar number? The poster I can understand, but the OP goes on about expecting free s**t for the inconvenience the phone company caused by the similarity in numbers. Why keep picking up the phone? Why not block all these random numbers? Why not talk to your phone company? Why not change your own number? OP caused all sorts of trouble over something that wasn't even Pizza Huts fault to begin with. I laughed at the irony of him saying the manager has an ego problem and not him or his family. I hate spoilt little millennials.
I agree with just about everything you said except your assumption that this took place recently. He mentions technology that is much older, and he was 17 at the time. He writes that this was before cell phones, that they later acquired caller id and a phone with a transfer option. That screams early 1980s. I find it ironic that the dad refused to pay the $10 to change his phone number but he is willing to shell out much more than that for both caller id and a new phone with a transfer switch, both of which would have been unnecessary if he just changed his phone number. But noooo he wants PH to pay for it....
Load More Replies...While this started out as fun and games, MundaneSeeSaw lost my sympathy after people were getting roughed up because of his family's tomfoolery. 1. The family never told the restaurant manager that he'd made a mistake in the advertisement? That was a mistake. The ad itself would have been your trump card in any negotiation or legal charge against the business. 2. The family RECORDED conversations. Back in the day before cell phones, that would likely have constituted a federal crime, if done without consent. FCC violation and domestic espionage come to mind. 3. Even in 1977, 10 dollars is about 40 dollars in today's money. Doable even for a father with kids in the house. My family had a phone number that was similar to a local business. We'd get mistaken callers from time to time and we sometimes teased them too, but had anybody gotten hurt because of what we had done, my parents would have stopped it right there.
I up voted this just because you used the word "tomfoolery".
Load More Replies...that was a lot of effort to make some people unhappy.........................yay?
Never seen a better example of lack of common sense. From pizza hut and the family, such a waste of time arguing.
Who would want to waste an entire summer pissing off innocent customers and end up by making a whole bunch of innocent employees lose their jobs? And who would brag about it. It would have been so easy to just change your number. If this is true, I think I know who the jerks were in this story.
Ok fun when you are only talking about pizza - no harm done right. When young my parents landline no was identical (couple of digits transposed) to both the local train station and the main local taxi service. Most of our calls were for one or the other. Would have been completely irresponsible to make up train times for enquirers or tell someone a taxi was on it's way. I was so helpful that I kept an up to date train timetable by the phone - could almost call it my first job - Lol
Wow that's a bit hard to digest. I like a good revenge story as much anyone, but it's a bit shocking how rude people can be where you live, how aggressive. I really feel sorry for anyone working in restaurants over there...
Yeah, I get you, can't imagine someone beats you because they don't get their pizza delivered. Crazy world...
Load More Replies...What kind of person cusses people out for directing them to the proper place? Probably the same kind of people too petty to spend 10 bucks to change their phone number....had you simply changed your number, Pizza Hut still wouldn't get those calls and orders. Good job taking down the big bad corporation, and getting a guy beat up...you are all losers.
I am torn here. I have had the similar phone number to a Taco Bell. Not the same. BUT I also worked as a manager in a pizza place when i was around 20. Young, female, alone in the store for long periods late at night when my drivers were out. I would be terrified at all the angry traffic coming in that I HAD LITERALLY NO IDEA WAS COMING. It is the Owner's fault, and Corporate, but NOT the little guys whose asses were on the line and on the front lines daily. These pranksters have a legitimate complaint, but they seem to take pleasure out of other peoples' pain and beat-downs. This smacks of eating popcorn at a lynching. Not cool, guys. Let me tell you how NOT cool it is: my stores have been held up, people have come in asking for the manager and were looking for the young girl who was running the place. They were looking to hurt ME. And that is not ok.
You lost my sympathy when you said they didn't offer to compensate you for people calling your phone. I'm sure that Pizza Hut had that phone number long before you had yours.
I know. That was the most selfish thing ever and definitely set off warning bells for me that there's more to this story. How about the part the writer doesn't care that people apparently literally got beaten up over this.
Load More Replies...OMG. The stupid is rich in this one. Just change your "friggin" number.
I don't believe this story for one reason. No way Pizza Hut is getting 100-200 calls a day. Worst pizza of any of the chains.
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Load More Replies...What a waste of time! Why couldnt the family just change their phone number? Yes, Pizza Hut was a jerk, but instead of just moving on with their life and changing their phone number they did a much worse thing.
All this trouble cause you dont want to spend 10 dollar? So you ruin a company and make employees lose their job just cause you can and cause you feel entitled too because the manager was an ahole? And you guys didnt even mind getting a different number, cause it would be okay if the pizza place paid for it, so that wasnt an issue either. Wow, all that so save 10 dollar. I would not call this evil or genius, just time-wasting and petty.
I don't get it ... the family keeps saying how "anyone in this position with any merit would change their phone number".... So why didn't the family just put up the $10 and save themselves the headache? Both parties appear to be exceptionally immature and stubborn.
Manager and family are all a******s in this story. Demanding free compensation bc people are stupid and don't listen? No, you're just as redneck as the rest of your small town. Never informing the manager of the misprint was a seriously d**k move of the family, too, but given the manager's response to cuss them out and accuse them of stealing calls or whatever, he's not exactly upstanding citizen. Corporate is actually the only reasonable one here--the family WAS acting illegally by secretly recording calls, and by fraudently posing as employees knowing FULL WELL WHAT THEY WERE DOING. PH Corporate was right to accuse them of stealing calls and of acting illegally. I feel sorry for the employees who had to deal with this nonsense
Hahaha just read your comment in George Takei's voice :)
Load More Replies...But why not be nicer about it like "Hey, you messed up the number on your ad and put ours by mistake will you consider changing your number so it isn't so close to ours, or we can change ous too!" Not "You made a mistake not going to tell what you did wrong but fix it and give us free things, oh and also we will run your business to the ground! and make us the hero in a few years!!"
LOL, if it was so anoying, why did you not change your own phone number, so simple and no F.. bull anymore. Just be a little bit creative using your brain, the reason you have one.
i like the comment about selling the phone number to other pizza places. That's freaking genius!
So how many employees lost their job because of the dad's desire for revenge?
Well, that was petty, childish b******t. No grownups at your house. Here's a suggestion, dipshit. Change your own goddamned phone number instead of getting into a pissing contest with someone who needs to earn a living. ...///... Actually being proud of getting innocent people beaten up is something a five year old would do.
I mean this is a good story but you openly say that multiple staff got beaten up because of you, I can see why the manager got beat up but the staff are just paid to take orders and they got beaten up because of this but it was still a funny story with a happy ending.
This is not a funny story. Too much hassle over a TEN DOLLAR fee. And, they expected free pizza.
Load More Replies...So the issue starts with similar numbers. Then escalates when their number gets listed as a Pizza Hut. The local manager got indignant rather than address the problem. If he would have clued in, he was losing money. Every call that went to the family was not a "potential" customer but an actual one. So they were losing customers daily. Since Pizza Huts are franchises, the corporate office chose not to get involved. The family had been frustrated and decided to have fun with it rather than drive themselves crazy. Had the manager handle it better there would have been no issue. That said, a lot Pizza Huts went out of business in the 80's. I suspect there were other management issues when someone was willing to leave known customers out in the cold like that.
It made me cringe when he said that 10$ was too much to pay for peace and quite at home. Really dude? You were so damn cheap? Sorry, but as much as pizza hut screwed with the ad, they had exactly same base for changing number before the add as you did.
Shame on the father for not teaching his kids how to handle a problem like and adult not a douchebag. He say's they had school I am sure this cause problems with their sleep he must be on welfare and a drunken a-hole. Come on what kind of douchebag puts his family thru this over $10 ! Who actually believes they did not get rude until the manager got rude ? They even said the manager said you have been insulting my customers the douchebag was sitting home drunk acting like tool when the manager may not have had the power to change the number what a loser and he puts it on here like he is proud you make me sick. Oh lets not forget they said they were upset they did not get free stuff definitely welfare people.
Wow...I had a little bit of this happen to me but not on this scale. My number was 703-566-5600 or something really easy I don't remember. Lots of calls for pizza. It only ended when I moved 2 years later because it was my house Phone. I learned a lesson. Never pick an easy number. EVER! I say good good for then. I probably would have given it to another pizza place too. Getting that many calls would have driven me nuts.
A hospital opened up near my shop. The first 3 digits of the shop phone are 797 and the hospital is 799. The last 4 the same The shop got 20-30 calls a day from people (often the same person several times) enquiring about their relative who was in for treatment One day an obnoxious lady phoned 4 times about her husband who had an operation. We politely told her she has mis-dialled, but she was of the opinion that she was right and we were wrong. On the 5th such call, I answered the phone and when I heard the same lady speaking, said "I am sorry, he passed away just now. There was a scream and she hung up Two weeks later the hospital changed the number from 799 to an 0800 number
I worked in a Bank and our phone number was one digit away from the number people had to call to pay the toll for the tunnel under Sydney Harbour. We became so bored answering their calls that we made a quiz, informing callers that if they could answer all questions correctly then their toll was free. Of course no one ever could, as we made the last question ludicrously hard, but it entertained us a lot, and seemed to cheer people up immensely. At least until they received their fine for not paying.....
I read a story about a home that frequently got mistaken for a Papa John's number. Eventually they just made their outgoing answering machine message "This is Papa Don's. We're very busy at the moment and only taking orders in the store."
My nightmare began when they created a new area code for my local area, my the insurance company had my same number, but THEY were assigned the new area code. I got their calls for years, even though I contacted them to try to work out a resolution, to no effect. So, I became the world's worst receptionist and insurance agent, but not towards the elderly, I would give them the correct number to call. Everyone else became fair game...a car dealership called, I told them the person in question had no insurance. No more calls now.
My husbands old boss had a business number that was close to a new attorney that set up shop in the same town. He kept getting phone calls from people that had legal issues and would ignore him stating the name for his computer repair shop. He was surprised how many of them dove into their legal problem without confirming who they'd called. When he expressed to them that he was not, in fact, a lawyer and directed them to the correct number, he'd sometimes get a sheepish 'thank you' and sometimes get yelled at for letting them ramble on. When he expressed to the attorney the issue and clients kept complaining about privacy, the lawyer finally changed his number.....
Back in the late 1950's we lived in a town where they still had a manual exchange our number was Dover 473, The doctors was Dover 47 - when people were in a hurry to get the doctor they would say "47 plea(se)" and the operator would hear "47three"... My mum and dad then they would get through to the Doctorgot very good at calmly telling them not to be so polite to the operator and then they would get through to the doctor. Luckily there were only about 2000 phones in the town so it did not happen too often :-)
Is this real? I always understood that 555 was reserved for TV and movies, so it's not to close to a real phone number.
The numbers have been changed to protect the guilty.
Load More Replies...Wow, a fun read and all but two wrongs don’t make a right. The family should have coughed up the ten bucks and changed their number, FFS.
I "share" a number with an ATV repair shop. The only difference is the number 23 vs 32. And they've even put MY number in their automated mail response! Now, thankfully ATV repairers are apparently not that busy. But I still have to explain to the customers and the company completely ignores my calls and mails. IF THIS HAPPENED TO ME AS OFTEN AS IT DID TO THEM, I WOULD COMPLETELY LOOSE IT! My absolute understanding goes out to you. You pay attention or you just pay! Well done for fighting back! 👍
I am not sure this is true if it is there are two pints to be made first as they put it this could have been avoided by changing the number. They talk about the pizza place but what kind of douchebag doesn't change the number at his home probably one living on welfare. If I was getting calls all day and night I would change my number this person said they had kids I guess them getting sleep for school did not matter. He had a chance to teach his kids o be the better person and instead chose to be a douchebag. Middle managers do not have the power to change corporate telephone numbers an when he did get corporate to agree there was a simple "mistake" This was the reason to act like a douchebag turn your kids into douchebags I don't think so. The manager may not have had a choice and sure this may make corporate responsible but I am willing to bet dollars to doughnuts you did not start making rude answers after you problem with the manager but before that is why he was irate. DOUCHEBAG
Now if we could just shut down the telemarketers since the DO NOT CALL LIST is a worthless piece of government c**p that hasn't worked in years.
Personally, I'd have taken their order and told them it would be ready/delivered in 30 minutes. Then when the pizza guy was a no show, direct them to the "corporate number" and then give them the actual Pizza Hut number. But, these guys did a pretty great job
So Im assumed you'd using the old 90's phone that connected to Ethernet that can mix up the bit of similar both of numbers and yet you'd is pure evil.
We have similar problem, since our phone number is only one numeral off from a local hospital's internal phone number. Our prefix is 558, and theirs is 588, so people are often getting it wrong and calling us from 5 to 10 times a day. Since it's a common error, and those who are calling are doctors and nurses, to either give or get information about patients, we just politely tell them they've dialed wrong and give them the correct prefix. No use getting angry about it, and we don't want to change our number, or ask the hospital to change theirs, so we just live with it.
I once worked at a Blockbuster in a college town, and our number was similar to that of the non-emergency number for the hospital. While we didn't get that many calls for the hospital, we did have one lady who swore up and down that she dialed the right number and that WE were the rude a******s. We tried to politely and calmly explain that she was calling Blockbuster by accident, and gave her the correct number to call, but after about the 3rd time she called us, she started screaming and cussing at us, then started angrily hanging up when we answered. Still don't know if she ever got through to the hospital to check on her relative.
They probably would have gone out of business anyway. Any owner that after placing an add; suddenly gets 200 orders a day less; should investigate why. That is a BIG amount. Since the owner didn't do that, he probably already didn't keep track of orders in some sort of way.. Which is really important. Knowing the busiest days and hours you can schedule employees right. Or have special discounts on certain days. If he doesn't keep track of the amount of orders, he will probably not being keeping track of a whole lot of other stuff. Employee-rights and such. Is he doesn't miss 200 costumers he probably also misses that Debby isn't Kyle and has told her that she isn't allowed to go home for 4 hours now after her shift ended..
I work for a homeless charity and we always get phone calls for an Estate Agent...
I used to get phone calls like that for a hotel. And I know the people doing the calling were not misdialing. My number ended in 1090 and the hotel's ended with 1000. How does someone dialing 000 end up picking their finger up off the 0 and go over to the 9 then back to the 0 ?? Answer? They don't. It's a phone company error.
I work at a large corporation. Our phone number seems to be very similar to a Real Estate company, the Welfare office, the City offices; and we get calls for the Rec Park associated with our company which has a completely different number that nobody seems to be able to find. I get a lot of confused people on the phone looking for a social worker and I'm desperately trying to look up this person in our directory who doesn't exist, telling them that person isn't here multiple times, then they ask, Is this the Welfare office? Ugh.
At least this guy and his sister were older. There is this website where you put in your neighborhood and you can see things going on (like yard sales, if ppl lost their cat/dog) and my dad showed me someone was giving away kittens for free on that website and my dad said since I wanted one of them I would have to call the lady, I did(we ended up texting most of the info anyway) but I was 10-ish at the time and she texted me "Does your parents know about this??? You sound really young" Which, getting the cat was my dads' idea in the 1st place, I said "Yes, my dad is next to me" but anyway good that they were older and nobody really thought anything of it (At 1st anyway)
Inconsiderate and inattentive pizza hut management. Meanspirited and nasty family. Glad I don't anywhere near you inbred thugs.
Did this to a hair salon that did the same thing to me. Try having 200 woman on a Friday at 3PM all thinking they are getting their hair done. ROFLMAO....they changed the numer the next day....
Yeah, I don't see anything here but jerks being jerks to each other. I hope karma gets them all.
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