“Hi, I’m trying to reach the owner of the business?”
“Well, you’ve reached the ‘owner’ of an acoustic-grunge band called ilyAIMY.”
“Oh, well if it’s not a business I’ll remove you from our li- ” (hangs up)
Probably the desired end result, but damned rude! Though I haven’t been acting like a savvy small-business owner this year (I’ve had a lot on my plate!) generally speaking ilyAIMY shows decent growth and though it operates as a collective of sole proprieters it operates just FINE thank you so very much! Enough so that I get a LOT of phone calls wanting to talk to the owner of the business… sometimes they want to give me a loan, sometimes they want to sell me toner, and sometimes they want to offer unknown and indefinable services that are probably not simply ill-advised crappy business deals but genuine scams.
Oh, and of course the DOZENS of calls per week about google placement (or more recently, the innovative “tired of getting calls about getting placed on google? We can STOP those calls! By letting us work with you on google placement!”). Sigh.
And generally I hang up on them. But if we ever DO get around to “and what kind of business IS this” they generally hang up on me. Dude. I need paper too.
Dick.
