I work for a small office as office manager. When answering the phone today, a recorded generic message (directed at no specific person) said to call Allied Interstate, a debt collector, at 866-898-3991 re: a debt. When I called them back, I was on hold listening to various recordings for about 12 minutes, then I got a message asking me to leave a message or continue to hold. When I selected the option for leaving a message, the voice mail was full and could not accept the message. Every avenue I tried was a dead end. I could not talk to a real person.
This office is not behind on any bills. This has taken up 30 minutes of my valuable time this afternoon. My boss sometimes answers the phone and this type of call would be upsetting and alarming to him and would have him questioning my abilities at doing my job.
No representative of Allied Interstate has ever called our office. Their first and only contact (so far) was a recorded message demanding that we call them (never mentioning "we" by name so we don't even know that they have the right number). And then they are unreachable by phone making it impossible to clear this up.
This is an interruption in our business and somebody should put a stop to these ridiculous people, so they can't continue with this harassing behavior.
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