At Work

[moon_custafer]

My office periodically gets calls where I can’t hear anybody on the other end, and the screen just gives a town name rather than a caller ID (I hate our phone system). But a bunch of them are from Anzac, AB, which is an unusual enough name that I finally looked it up just now. Turns out it has a population of 506 people, as of the last census.

Who the hell is calling us from Anzac? Which of its 506 inhabitants is so desperate to talk to a hardware-supply company three provinces away? And why can they never get through?

Comments

[larryhammer]

Is it possible the caller(s) is location spoofing?

[full_metal_ox]

That’s my guess. Or perhaps it’s the site of a spam call center.

(Ever since the 2016 U.S. Presidential election, I’ve been receiving periodic spam texts pertaining to local and state politics in Arkansas—a state where I’ve never so much as set foot. Still trying to figure out how that happened.)

[sovay]

Who the hell is calling us from Anzac?

I saw this sentence first and in the split second before the rest of the context filled in, did indeed wonder why ANZAC was calling you, unless they wanted their Robert Newton back.

[moon_custafer]

Or perhaps their biscuits?

[daryl_wor]

I am recently just grateful there are humans out there who can still make telephone calls. That's been dwindling a lot in the last few years over here.