Random numbers, long voicemails and recorded messages when you answer a call, how irritating and frustrating can they be? They call multiple times and leave countless messages and sometimes even send a text, and when you finally answer and say please put me on the “do not call list”, you think the annoyance is all over. Little do you know they end up calling you again, as these telemarketers did not respect your request and now you may have to go through the whole nauseating process yet again, does anyone really want that?
Dish Network is a company that got caught up in this situation by calling tenants who were put on the “do not call” list, which is against the law when it comes to telemarketing and can lead to trouble, which is just what it did for this company. The Federal Trade Commission has rules and regulations, as well as the Department of Justice, that need to be followed or will lead to some troublesome outcomes.
Once you violate these acts you end up in unfavorable circumstances, which happened to Dish Network who was involved in a civil penalty case worth millions of dollars. When you know something is in the wrong, do you go through with it still? Do you really think you will not get caught in the end? In this day and age people do not get away with much so you got to watch out for yourself, especially for a big company, for example Dish network.
The company still had telemarketers make the telephone calls to these numbers that asked to be put on the “do not call list”. Did the company think they would really think annoying consumers who stated a command of action would want them to buy back into their company? When a person makes a statement to be left alone it is usually what they will want still within the next few months so nagging them is not going to change there mind, especially when knowing what you are doing wrong in the situation at hand.
Knowing what you are doing wrong as an employer and deliberately ignoring the situation is when you are putting yourself in the wrong and violating the law. This is not Dish Networks first rodeo for violating rules and regulations when it comes to telemarketing and annoying the “do not call list”. These situations did not lead to good outcomes for Dish and has lost them millions of dollars. Learn your lesson, do the right thing, there is no reason to be in the wrong when you know exactly what to do right.
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