Receiving wrong number calls once or twice is bearable… but 15 to 20 times a day is just insane!

This man got a job in a new office, but he received a lot of wrong number calls on his office phone. Everyone was asking him about the GED test.

When the learning center wouldn’t help him, he took matters into his own hands!

Read the full story below to find out what happened.

10 dollars and a pencil.

A few years ago, after changing jobs, I found myself in a new office, with a new phone number.

After some orientation, training, and other new-hire stuff, I finally get to sit down and do the things.

I get my voicemail and answering machine set up, set up the email, and the phone rings.

People were calling this man’s number and inquiring about the GED test.

“Good morning, engineering.”

“Yeah, when can I take the GED test?”

“Sorry, wrong number.”

The phone rings again.

“Seriously, when can I take the GED test?”

“Like I said, wrong number. Bye.”

Every day, he’s been getting multiple calls about it.

This went on for weeks, 15-20 calls a day.

People screaming at me for not being the Adult Learning Center.

One day, an epiphany:

“This isn’t the Adult Learning Center?”

“Nope”

“Do you know the number?”

“Check Google”

“I did, this is the number on their website.”

He told the learning center about the problem, but they couldn’t do anything about it.

Oh really?

A little Google-fu of my own, and I dig up a few numbers, and give them a call.

They tell me that they don’t maintain their website, there’s nothing they can do about it, and it’s not their problem.

I’m just going to have to “deal with it.”

My favorite line of that conversation was, “What are you going to do about it? I work for the State, you don’t. Bye bye!”

And you can imagine that “bye-bye” just dripped with the condescension that only hubris and decades of Karenhood can muster.

So, he gave out false information to the next callers.

Oh. Hell. No. Let’s dance. The next day…

“Good morning.”

“When can I take the GED test?”

“We give that on request. It takes about an hour and a half. Come on down.”

“Oh, awesome. How much it it?”

“10 dollars. Bring a pencil. We’ll sharpen yours, but we can’t supply them. Budget cuts, you know.”

“Naw, I get it. See you in a bit.”

“Take your time. They don’t like me telling you this, but if you get here before we close, they HAVE TO give you the test. See you when you get here.”

“Thanks, man. See you later.”

This is how the real GED test goes.

Now for those of you who don’t know, the GED test takes a WHOLE DAY.

It also usually costs upward of $100, depending on the state.

In the state I was living and working at the time, it was around $200.

As such, it was only offered at certain intervals.

But he’s been telling them inaccurate details.

So, as I was telling dozens of people PER DAY that it was $10, took 90 minutes, and offered on request.

I’m sure that they were absolutely inundated with angry people with freshly sharpened #2 pencils, waving their $10 bills and demanding the test that the guy on the phone told them they could come and take.

He also gave out the names of the managers.

Every morning, I checked the website to see if my phone number was still on there.

I also took the liberty of crawling around and getting the phone numbers for some managers.

I was happy to hand these out when people called back to complain that they hadn’t been allowed to take the test.

After a few weeks, his number was finally removed.

“Head back down there, and ask to speak to [Manager’s Name].

And tell them that they called the number on the website and this is what they were told.”

It took them about 6 more weeks to change the website.

For some reason, all of the managers’ numbers disappeared from the website as well.

Whoa! That was some nasty revenge. But what did they expect with the number on their website going to a complete stranger?

Let’s find out what other people on Reddit have to say about this.

Well played, says this person!

Really clever but…

Naughty but awesome.

A lot of people feel bad for the test-takers

Finally, this user shares a similar story.

It’s funny how “nothing we can do about it” changes when there are consequences!

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