We had these new (to us) POTS lines installed at work this week, because the company doesn't really need 20 overlines for 2.5 people. Guess what happens within 8 hours of connecting the new phone? That's right, telemarketer! Automated too!

We didn't have Call Display yet, which would help us identify when our managers down south are calling. The number is not unlisted. It might even be in some directory someplace.

This is where I get envious of everyone in the US. You at least have a Do Not Call registry, and government support for eliminating extremely annoying calls. Here in Canada, the CRTC is supposedly limited by "lack of jurisdiction" in suppressing annoying calls.

Well, here's a nice challenge to the newly elected (and mixed) government. Please get off your collective asses and do this one thing for me, while considering how much I have paid in taxes over the last 10 years while barely getting anything back for it.

Meanwhile, hopefully the people in management dealing with the problem down south can come up with an adequate solution. I suggested cell phones, which incidentally was my personal solution to the problem. You can do that or you could just dump all your friends and the land line at the same time, going off the grid.