Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Doofus Of The Day #670


Today's award goes to an Australian company.  It's succeeded in putting its corporate foot firmly in its telephonic mouthpiece.

THE company that operates [Australia's] Do Not Call Register has been penalised for making nuisance phone calls to thousands of Melburnians.

Service Stream Solutions was fined $110,000 for illegally contacting 6300 households and offering to install low-energy light bulbs, standby power controllers and low-flow showerheads.

The calls were made by the firm's telemarketing division, which is separate to the arm that manages the Do Not Call Register.

There's more at the link.  A tip o' the hat to reader Snoggeramus for bringing it to my attention.

That's a particularly inept piece of doofidity, isn't it?  You run the nation's Do Not Call registry with one hand, and ignore it with the other!  What price corporate communication?

Peter

No comments: