Oxymoron: Debt Collectors and common sense

A common problem when dealing with debt collectors is their lack of common sense. They simply don't seem to have any. When they call you they are working from a script that somebody minutely smarter than they wrote up. It is designed to give them control of the conversation with the debtor but if the recipient of the call realize that he is being brainwashed with these invented scripts he will use a script of his own and throw the dumb debt collector into a tizzy because once his canned script has been penetrated he don't know what to do next. So he blows the call and wastes his time.

Just to illustrate the level of intelligence of debt collectors, we can use the following post from one of their message boards where they go to pass the time of day.

BILLS
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Posted: January 21 2005 at 11:42am | IP Logged

HAHAHAHA.....there's 2 things you don't see everyday....Stiffler and common sense.....

Now there is a debt collector who is finally telling the truth of the matter. No brains, no common sense. Just a bunch of canned scripts. All they seem capable of doing is engaging in conversations about their favorite sport, movie or TV show or insulting each other or someone else. Never anything of any substance whatever.

So it is easy to see why such scripts as this one blows their feeble little minds.