Freelance Headhunters...

No idea where they got my name and the number of my work phone...

- they do not give a damn and call me 1045 am to discuss "EXCITING BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES™"

- they are sure I am having a case of stockholm syndrome, because I could NEVER be satisfied in my current employment

- they call every other day with a new number and start the same process again

How fucking dense can people get?

Most phones allow you to block unknown and non contacts numbers, if that doesn't work with you, then you can use some app like "Should I Answer?" which automatically blocks numbers iirc that got marked by other people or any of the databases.

Try pressing buttons repeatedly like 7 or 0 during the call to try to get in their systems 'do not call list'. It's helped me before.

@JohnScott could you explain why that would work?

@JoshBent Automated calling machines wait for you to answer the phone with "Hello" or similar. They often have a failsafe that ends the call or removes you from the list when you hit 0 or 7. You can test this if you get a call from a number you do not recognize, instead of answering just saying nothing. Often this results in the machine hanging up. If the caller is a person, you can usually just waste their time until it's no longer in their best interest to continue the call.

@JohnScott I wonder why they have that function, wouldnt it be in their best interest based on that someone _did_ press something - assume its a human and pester him more with then human called lists?

@JoshBent You're forgetting. What if you had to debug that system? Wouldn't it be convenient not to have to deal with offers from the company you are working for?

@JohnScott just blacklist your number, why offer everybody a free bailout? 😉

edit: for actual debugging you -want- to receive the call, so youll target a specific number, most usually a voip one anyway.

@JoshBent Fuck it. I've got no idea; it's more of a guess really. But I've had it work in real life.

@JohnScott you really got me interested now in why it works, never tried it myself, but I use a combination of both suggested above myself, so I am basically blacklisted on almost all lists by now.

How did you come up with trying that? did you read it somewhere?

@JoshBent I complained about it and a guy I knew grabbed my phone pressed some keys and the call ended. He told me about it afterwards.

Also I remembered watching this video on YouTube with gave me some insight:
https://youtu.be/UXVJ4JQ3SUw

Take a look it's pretty interesting

@JohnScott will do, thanks