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I’ve gotten several cold calls from HPE within the past few weeks. They keep calling from with Caller ID blocked.

What really pisses me off is we’ve met in person with regional reps from HPE along with an HPE-Partner/MSP we use. But these cold callers seem to be calling with absolutely zero knowledge of who we are, or what we do, or what projects we’ve been discussing with our HP reps. These are complete cold calls. They don’t even know who are regional reps are.

In the past I’ve asked to be on their Do Not Call list.

So this morning, I get yet another cold call from HPE. The only reason I answered is I was expecting an important phone call, and a blocked caller ID comes up. Sure enough, it was HPE AGAIN. So I told them to stop cold calling us and basically blasted them. As soon as I hung up, I started getting a barrage of phone calls from Caller ID blocked. Sometimes the phone wouldn’t even ring long enough to pick it up. Within minutes, someone else from HPE calls my coworkers number, and then asks for me!

So, HPE this is childish behavior:

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GROW THE F*** UP!

@HP @HPE

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What makes you think it is really HPE? Could be cold calls from Joe Smo trying to get you to give them network info etc.

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There’s better ways of social engineering information out of people than pretending to be a telemarketer telling me about their new promotional sales on their whatever the hell they are trying to sell.

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Are they really HPE or an organisation that is talking as if they are but, in fact, are not. They may be some agency loosely connected with HPE. If you get some details about them then, if I were you, I would complain to HPE very strongly threatening them with the fact that you can move to other suppliers. Or if I wanted some items I would quote them the cheapest price I could get from HPE direct and ask for a 10 % discount and the order is theirs. I think the stupidity of the situation would be realised that one part of HPE is undercutting another Part.

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To be fair, it may be a firm that HPE outsourced to do those kind of calls. When you piss off a teenager or young adult, you might get that kind of passive-aggressive response.

Or it’s Microsoft calling to tell you that your desktop is infected and you need to let them in ASAP to fix it.

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I called one of our regional reps once, he said I’m not the only one who’s complained to him about it. I think the company is just a disorganized mess.

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We get cold calls at least once a week from HP for someone calling on their behalf, having zero information on us and just wanting to know what our “needs” are and if we need help buying more stuff. I just tell them that we have everything under control and to please take us off the calling list. Not much reason to get upset about it because there’s no one that can fix it.

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I started getting these on a weekly basis, I just started hanging up on the calls, and so far they have stopped as of late…

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When I get repeat cold-calls from a company (especially after I’ve already told them no) I’ll answer, put them on speaker phone and turn the volume all the way down and then go back to what I was doing. After 1 or 2 times they usually stop. Though there was one where I was working on a new bash script and wanted the distraction so while I was typing I’d randomly apologize and ask them to go back to their last question they asked me. After about the 3rd time and 20 min into the call they got the hint and asked if this was a good time

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Hello,

I believe we found out why so many calls were made. HPE has corrected the issue and it should not happen again. I apologize for this issue and please let me know if it happens again.

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Perhaps it’s the HPE liaison from Microsoft Nigeria that’s trying to call you…

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