sw2139-ms98-a-trans.txt

 
     		
 	
 		okay
 	
 	
 		
 
 	
 	
 		where to start
 	
 	
 		well i think
 		uh i haven't had that much of course i just heard but i haven't had that much time to think about it either
 		i guess the
 		um
 		biggest thing i find
 		find find is the
 		financial
 		aspects uh particularly
 	
 	
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 		the ability of people to access
 		you know your financial records or for example your credit rating uh rating
 	
 	
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 		almost at will
 	
 	
 		that's true
 		i didn't think about that
 	
 	
 		and uh
 		of course
 		flying uh using your Social Security number of course permits people to do that
 	
 	
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 		and almost anything you do now
 		uh a Social Security number is required
 	
 	
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 		and uh
 		of course there's another aspect of this too uh in terms of invasion of privacy i just thought about it being a professional and of course you probably belong to
 		one or more professional organizations and that is that
 		some of the organizations sell their mailing lists
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		which i think is a is an invasion of privacy
 	
 	
 		i agree
 	
 	
 		
 
 	
 	
 		yes i get some of these things in the mail that i wonder where in the world did they get my address or where did they get my name
 	
 	
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 		and in fact some of these things i get some of these questionnaires it's funny because i'm i was in the process of filling one out when i decided i would make this phone call but um
 		i haven't got to the end of it yet where it asks all that salary information and everything but when you have to send that back in the mail with your name on it your salary information i i just have a real hard time doing that
 		um and they ask you what type of household items do you own like stereos and TV's and VCR's and
 		and you hate to send something off with your name and address and what types of things do you own and what kind of money do you make and you wonder
 		well who's going to get ahold of this and think um that's a nice place to go rob
 	
 	
 		and not only that it it opens you to
 		phone solicitations
 	
 	
 		right
 	
 	
 		and i
 		i've noticed more and more i would say over the last
 		six months
 	
 	
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 		i am getting more
 		at home phone solicitations
 	
 	
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 		for a variety of things from
 	
 	
 		i got one tonight about six thirty when i sat down to eat dinner
 		carpet cleaning
 	
 	
 		i've had them for carpet cleaning i've had them for of course for you know real estate investments know you get uh
 	
 	
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 		please send in your uh you know this particular card and you get uh
 		a free trip or something along those lines
 	
 	
 		right
 	
 	
 		and so that uh that bothers me because i
 		of course i enjoy being at home and
 		i do not enjoy
 		getting called by strangers
 	
 	
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 		uh particularly solicit you know soliciting
 		so
 		having your and i know that a lot of these of course are random phone calls they just you know start going through the phone book or going through a series of numbers
 	
 	
 		um-hum
 	
 	
 		but some of them are sold and i know you talking about mailing lists
 		the i there is one particular
 		group to which i belong and for some the reason they have three
 		different
 		names
 	
 	
 		hum
 	
 	
 		for me now the address is the same you know my my office address
 	
 	
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 		but they have one under you know my first name James
 		they have one under my first name and initial middle initial then they have a a third one under my just my two initials
 	
 	
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 		and
 		i get mail
 	
 	
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 		here at home
 		under each of those names
 	
 	
 		oh no
 	
 	
 		so i know that they have sold their mailing list
 	
 	
 		
 
 		right
 	
 	
 		and uh
 		i think those two things bother me more than anything else as far as an invasion of privacy
 	
 	
 		yeah
 	
 	
 		and uh
 		i can't really think of anything else offhand that uh
 	
 	
 		i think i dislike the phone number part the worst i mean it's it's one thing to get junk mail because you can you can just put it right in the trash but it's the phone calls and
 		you know usually when they call you it's going to be when you sit right when you sit down to dinner because they know
 		they pretty much know that you're at work all day and they call you right when when you've just gotten home from work the last thing you want is a phone call unless it's you know something halfway enjoyable but if it's a salesperson it's just something you don't want to have to mess with and
 		and i've gotten a lot of them lately or i'll sometimes i come home from work and there's a lot of hang ups on my answering machine and i'm just assuming it's probably a salesman that called during the day and
 		i wasn't home and they'll probably call me up and you know call me back and bother me when i sit down to dinner later on but
 	
 	
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 		i find that very annoying the uh mail stuff yeah you know it's kind of irritating but it's not nearly as obnoxious as the phone calls
 	
 	
 		i think you i think you mentioning the phone calls during dinner
 	
 	
 		
 
 	
 	
 		i know when i sit down with the family
 		and want to have the opportunity you know to talk
 	
 	
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 		and see what's going on and all those things
 		even if friends call
 	
 	
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 		it irritates me so i try to i actually during that period of time
 	
 	
 		yeah
 	
 	
 		from you know usually from six o'clock or six thirty whenever i get home until eight or so i will
 		shut off the phone
 	
 	
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 		and uh my daughter gets irate when i when i do that because you know she's a teenager
 	
 	
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 		uh oh
 	
 	
 		so she'll you know why are you cutting off the phone i might get an important phone call so
 	
 	
 		
 
 		right
 	
 	
 		so those i guess those three things are the uh
 		um
 		most irritating to me
 	
 	
 		um-hum i agree with the phone too in that i'm single but
 		when i come home from work there's times i need to pay bills i need to balance my checking account i need to do all kinds of different things like that and
 		even though it's friends calling sometimes you just feel like this is my quiet time i need to get things done and the phone ringing bothers me but that's
 		that's where answering machines are nice because if it's really important they'll leave a message and i can call them back but uh at work i have so many phone calls from customers calling in sometimes it is just
 	
 	
 		that's right
 	
 	
 		i just want to get away from the phone ringing because it it really does annoy me and uh if i've had a lot of phone calls during the day when occasionally we have uh like this past week we have to do a lot of troubleshooting when the programmers have installed a new system
 		and uh phone rings like crazy and you come home and the last thing you want to do is have to answer the phone and if it's some salesman that just makes it even that much worse
 		and uh it just i get to where i i turn the answering machine on
 		and just let it pick up the phone but now with this thing i'm participating in i kind of have to answer it because you never know if it's the switchboard or if it's uh you know somebody calling that you really don't want to talk on the phone
 	
 	
 		well i have you know we have a you know voice mail system at uh at the office
 	
 	
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 		now what i have done is
 		i have forwarded my home phone
 	
 	
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 		to the answering service at the office
 	
 	
 		uh-huh
 	
 	
 		so that i do not have to have a um a ring at all
 	
 	
 		a ring at all
 		oh huh that's an idea
 	
 	
 		if i if i want to do that
 	
 	
 		
 
 		right
 	
 	
 		and uh or i will just
 		let the phone ring three or four times and know that it will forward to uh to the office
 	
 	
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 		and so it's you know it makes it convenient but at the office when i you know we can uh on our system and i imagine on most systems
 		you can just
 		route it directly to the
 		answering service
 	
 	
 		yeah ours is that way too
 	
 	
 		and when i when i want to be you know not bothered during the day that's exactly what i do
 	
 	
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 		and so uh
 	
 	
 		well yours is probably the same as ours it's uh Tigon isn't Tigon uh part of GTE or vice versa or something like that
 	
 	
 		uh
 	
 	
 		seems i read
 	
 	
 		yeah well Tigon is part of GTE
 	
 	
 		okay okay that's it that GTE had purchased Tigon and yeah that's what we have
 	
 	
 		
 
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 		except we call it Aspen but
 	
 	
 		Aspen hum
 	
 	
 		yes
 		and uh
 		we
 	
 	
 		i couldn't remember in Tigon had purchased GTE's phone mail services or if GTE had purchased Tigon i knew there was some type of a tie in there i remember reading in the paper a few months back but
 	
 	
 		yeah GTE purchased Tigon
 	
 	
 		okay
 	
 	
 		and so
 		we
 		have have been using a the Aspen service before they purchased Tigon
 	
 	
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 		so i imagine we will be
 		uh shifting over to that service
 	
 	
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 		uh for a while or if in a while
 	
 	
 		uh-huh
 	
 	
 		as soon as we determine what we're going to do with Contel after we bought Contel
 	
 	
 		oh no
 	
 	
 		yeah
 		oh Dana i think we have probably conversed long enough well all right
 	
 	
 		i think we did that's good
 		i didn't think we could go too far on this privacy thing but uh
 	
 	
 		
 
 	
 	
 		i guess it's close enough
 	
 	
 		all right well thank you for calling i had i i enjoyed talking to you
 	
 	
 		sure good talking to you Jim
 		all right bye-bye
 	
 	
 		take care