You Won't Do Another 'Cause You're Getting with Me

Ordinarily, I loathe cold-calls. Cold-calls are the people who harass your telephone receptionist to find our who your company's IT director is, and then go into a spiel about how they're some innovative tech solution firm and it'd be awesome if they could meet with you sometime to assess how they can help your business's needs.

These folks generally don't know me, don't know what I do, and are almost completely ignorant of everything other than trying to sell me something I don't need.

Ordinarily.

This morning's cold-call was not a salesman, however, but rather a polite woman reading her pitch off of a computer screen. Something about a data backup and archival strategy survey. I don't mind taking surveys from time to time, and, today being kind of slow, I was up for the distraction. She'd been given our organization's contact info by the company we use for our off-site tape storage, Iron Mountain. Furthermore, participating in the survey would warrant me a $25 thank you check.

Damn, girl. You had me at "Iron Mountain".

Sadly, it was not a phone survey, but an on-line dealie that I'm guessing is long and sophisticated and will be rife with "strongly agree, mostly agree, agree, strongly disagree"-type questions and take me an hour to complete. But hey, free check for doing something I'd have done for free.

And that ain't bad.