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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted clever little truths, hidden in daily life.
Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts:
- Both “200” and “160” are 2 minutes in microwave math
- When you’re a kid, you don’t realize you’re also watching your mom and dad grow up.
- More dreams have been destroyed by alarm clocks than anything else
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They inform you so that you can retract consent (by hanging up)
The problem is that there's often no alternative means to access the service(s) you need. There should be a way to revoke consent without disconnecting.
When you are connected with a person, you can often ask for a non-recorded line, though they don’t advertise it. It’s not ideal that your call is recorded until that point, and it’s obviously an extra hassle, which is still a problem.
Single party consent means that your consent is irrelevant; they are permitted to record anyway, even if they told you they are not.
It also means that their consent is irrelevant: you are permitted to record anyway, even if you tell them you are not.
Yes, but that only applies in places with single party consent.
Having worked in a call center, I would be surprised if such a thing is even possible.
That said, the call recording software was so bad, less than half of calls were actually recorded anyway. But they tried on all of them.
I only know about it because I worked in a call center and it was literally impossible at my phone, but we just transferred it to a manager’s direct line.
It may well depend on what type of call center it is though, because we dealt with privileged information in many calls. I’ve done it as a caller since, but only with similar places, so I could a sales center or cable company being different