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I assume you're aware, but it's known that companies give white-glove treatment to all congresspeople and their family and their friends. From robocalls to hea
by x0x0 8y ago
I assume you're aware, but it's known that companies give white-glove treatment to all congresspeople and their family and their friends.
From robocalls to health insurance to the credit reporting agencies to comcast, these folks encounter none of the problems regular folks hit.
- DailyHN 8y agoDo you have any examples?
- rhacker 8y agoNot true: https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/11/25/congress-make-take-new-steps-stop-robocall-scammers/8Ca0oLNAbHOooDoQo6soII/story.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/business/2018/11/25/congress-mak... > "The problems have frustrated Markey as they have worsened over the years. He’s been known to pick up spam calls to his office, just to see what he can find out about who placed them."
- learc83 8y agoThe majority of these robocalls companies are fly by night operations engaging in illegal sales tactics. They aren't going out of their way to avoid members of congress. Even if they wanted to, it's not like there is a list of personal phone numbers of important people to avoid calling. >From robocalls to health insurance to the credit reporting agencies to comcast, these folks encounter none of the problems regular folks hit. Sure some companies go out of their way to cater to them, and most of them (ab)use their position to make some problems go away. But most of the time people don't even know who they are. There are 435 members of the House of Representatives, and sizeable fraction changes every 2 years. The majority of them aren't individually important enough to warrant that kind of extreme deference from every company.