Meanies can be hilaious sometimes, you should know this.
What are we going to do with all these monkeys?
I'm pissed that a bunch of you assholes copied me. Bunch of trendy douchebags... the lot of you.
I'm way late to this, but I've been in the collection/repo business for 9.5 years now, and I've never once used an alias. First name and/or last name. If asked, my full name is given. Not sure what kind of fly by night or third party operation you worked for, "Justin", but aliases have always been strongly frowned upon where I work.
Again, I work in repossession. The people that talk to me just got their shit ganked by the bank (bank = us). So they hate me much more than someone who's calling about them being 25 days late on their Discover card payment. I've never used an alias, nor have had any crazy debtor problems. Sure, I've heard of it happening, but I've also heard of people trying to cash billion dollar checks in Fort Worth, TX. There's always the lunatic fringe.
You bring up an attorney as your specific example of why you'd use an alias...but your fatal flaw is that you never want to intentionally misrepresent yourself AND THEREFORE YOUR EMPLOYER when dealing with an attorney. That can never help your case and/or leverage in the matter.
You might want to re-think your approach there, Chachi.
Gary Carter: I'm way late to this, but I've been in the collection/repo business for 9.5 years now, and I've never once used an alias. First name and/or last name. If asked, my full name is given. Not sure what kind of fly by night or third party operation you worked for, "Justin", but aliases have always been strongly frowned upon where I work. Again, I work in repossession. The people that talk to me just got their shit ganked by the bank (bank = us). So they hate me much more than someone who's calling about them being 25 days late on their Discover card payment. I've never used an alias, nor have had any crazy debtor problems. Sure, I've heard of it happening, but I've also heard of people trying to cash billion dollar checks in Fort Worth, TX. There's always the lunatic fringe. You bring up an attorney as your specific example of why you'd use an alias...but your fatal flaw is that you never want to intentionally misrepresent yourself AND THEREFORE YOUR EMPLOYER when dealing with an attorney. That can never help your case and/or leverage in the matter. You might want to re-think your approach there, Chachi.
I'd like to thank you for not being one of the assholes that copied me. I've had too many cocktails this evening. Bollocks!
Gary Carter: I'm way late to this, but I've been in the collection/repo business for 9.5 years now, and I've never once used an alias. First name and/or last name. If asked, my full name is given. Not sure what kind of fly by night or third party operation you worked for, "Justin", but aliases have always been strongly frowned upon where I work. Again, I work in repossession. The people that talk to me just got their shit ganked by the bank (bank = us). So they hate me much more than someone who's calling about them being 25 days late on their Discover card payment. I've never used an alias, nor have had any crazy debtor problems. Sure, I've heard of it happening, but I've also heard of people trying to cash billion dollar checks in Fort Worth, TX. There's always the lunatic fringe. You bring up an attorney as your specific example of why you'd use an alias...but your fatal flaw is that you never want to intentionally misrepresent yourself AND THEREFORE YOUR EMPLOYER when dealing with an attorney. That can never help your case and/or leverage in the matter. You mightwant to re-think your approach there, Chachi.
You mightwant to re-think your approach there, Chachi.
I might not want re-think my approach here, Just saying when you use the word "might" you're really only stating a possibility, which then makes the following statement meaningless, giving the idea that most of assume that anything is possible there for why state if one thing is possible?
Anyways the collection agency that I worked for at the time I was using the alias for is F.R.S Finacial Recovery Services, you can check them online if you want. F.R.S. is the first collection agency that I worked for,an at the time they said we could use an alias, and so I jumped on it, essentially I just liked the idea, and I had this name floating around in my head, for who know for what good reason, so I choose John Douglas.
Now in no way did my alias hinder my performance at all, if at all only it helped. It's a professional sounding name, and it sounds like a lawyer, which is the approach I went for. I was one of the best new performers at the company.
At FRS I was working on accounts that were anywhere from 4 to 40 years old from the 60's with a range of a 1,000 to 30,000 in debt. And when you're trying to get someone to pay on 10year+ account you have to know how to talk, or essentially B.S. Unlike you, all my power came from my words, I couldn't call the bank, and say this "hey guy isn't paying", not so easy. My method was to instill fear, for example, if someone made a promise to pay, before I let them go, I might say, " Before I let you, I have to ask you have any of your other creditors have to put lean on your house?" Or if someone was refusing to pay, I might say "Is anyone going to be home later?" I got paid for being an asshole.
As far as the whole alias thing is concerned, I worked next to people who were making 80,000+ a year using aliases so I don't have really any idea of where you get that from. It doesn't hinder in any way.
Now as far as using an alias with in a attorney, it's not against the law. In fact it's almost silly to use your real name, given the idea that an alias is basically your real name in collection, why would you be using two names? Don't you think attorneys talk to their clients? Would I want them to refer to me by both names? That would just get confusing, best to keep things simple. Any lawyer knows that aliases are legal, and part of collections.
I've never had crazy debt collector problems either. Who does? I was kind of just joking around when I said that(sarcasm).
John Douglas, by any chance do you have a concussion?
Justin : Before I let you, I have to ask you have any of your other creditors have to put lean on your house?"
Before I let you, I have to ask you have any of your other creditors have to put lean on your house?"
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When I was a call center travel agent, we were all supposed to have aliases (I'm not real sure why). My first choice was "Spanky" but the boss was against that, so then I was Shaniqua for the first week or two.
The rest of the time I was just Lex because I thought having a phone alias was dumb.
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You should have gone with something fun like Candi Fleshfolds.
G.G.: You should have gone with something fun like Candi Fleshfolds.
I wouldn't mind collecting with the name Candi Fleshfolds. "Hi this is Candi Fleshfolds give me yo fuckin damn money!" That would be alright, and how did you know I've got a concussion. It happened in the morning of may 1, after I got out of the hospital. I went home, and for some reason went immediatly to musicscene.org???
Lean 1. An experimental language from the University of Nijmegen and University of East Anglia, based on graph rewriting and useful as an intermediate language. Lean is descended from Dactl0.
2. The condition of a place in relation to various phenomena of the atmosphere, as temperature, moisture, etc., especially as they affect animal or vegetable life.
3. (Rhet.) A figure in which the parts of a sentence or paragraph are so arranged that each succeeding one rises above its predecessor in impressiveness.
4. To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
5.(Typog.) Of a character which prevents the compositor from earning the usual wages; -- opposed to fat; as, lean copy, matter, or type.
Stating the possibility at further argument, I became frustrated. The original statement we were now far from, And I assume that would travel much further. The financial state was in collapse. The recovery, there was none And not services to be had. Essentially all we now had left was us. Professional only by our own profession. We instill the fear in all men. Like the creditors of their day. The aliases we use in shame, And the alias is now all that we are. Attorneys move back, and forth on their decisions. Either way there is always sarcasm.
Justin : Stating the possibility at further argument,I became frustrated.The original statement we were now far from,And I assume that would travel much further.The financial state was in collapse. The recovery, there was noneAnd not services to be had.Essentially all we now had left was us.Professional only by our own profession.We instill the fear in all men.Like the creditors of their day.The aliases we use in shame,And the alias is now all that we are.Attorneys move back, and forth on their decisions.Either way there is always sarcasm.
Stating the possibility at further argument,I became frustrated.The original statement we were now far from,And I assume that would travel much further.The financial state was in collapse. The recovery, there was noneAnd not services to be had.Essentially all we now had left was us.Professional only by our own profession.We instill the fear in all men.Like the creditors of their day.The aliases we use in shame,And the alias is now all that we are.Attorneys move back, and forth on their decisions.Either way there is always sarcasm.
This is a really long haiku.