When I left
my job at Frontier Community College back in 2007, I got a new phone
number. When you get a call from me, it
says you are getting a call from West Texas. I thought about it and decided two
things----I was going to keep it when we returned to Illinois….and my days of
feeling I needed a land line were over.
I tell you
this so you will understand that I got maybe a hundred phone calls in the month
of October from automated services promoting either Beto O’Rouke or Ted Cruz
for the Texas Senate seat. I just never answered.
Robocalls
are a nuisance. They are a form of harassment that simply must stop.
It appears
others agree with me. Our Attorney General, Lisa Madigan, is part of a
nationwide effort to work with phone companies and the Federal Communication
Commission to start blocking robocalls.
Madigan is
realistic. Completely stopping the calls seems to be an impossible task…but
curtailing them would be most appreciated.
I’m not
exaggerating when I tell you that I can’t sit at my in-law’s dinner table
without their landline ringing. It is almost always a foundation….or an
organization….begging for a donation. It is almost never a live person.
Look, for
some….and I include myself….our phone represents our business lives, but I
can’t answer text messages or e-mails if my phone is blowing up with pitches
from the national association to eradicate mad cow disease.
Enough.
Time for a
good Robocop to get the calls to stop.
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