prog | (no subject)

I just received my very first cell-phone spam (after a year and a half of the cellular life), a marketing call from RCN, who is my cable provider, asking if I wanted to upgrade to their platinum-level blue-star double-happiness service package. Sadly, the fellow simply talked around my "I'm not interested, thanks" by taking a well-let-me-tell-you-why-you-should-be-interested tone, which baffled me, and so I just hung up on him.

Eeehn. I was feeling good about RCN when the installation at my new place went smoothly, with a clueful and friendly installer guy, but this sort of business rather levels things out again. Poor RCN... I hope the rumors I hear about them aren't as dire as all that, but the desire to hard-sell existing customers would seem to be a rather unfortunate indicator.