It's those "academic advisers" again, which have been discussed on this board already. You'll talk to "Ashley," and it should be obvious "Ashely" is a robot.
First, "Ashley" sounds entirely too cheerful to be speaking to strangers on the telephone for hours every day. Next, the conversation is very disjointed, with long pauses, as if Mission Control were speaking to astronauts on the moon. That's because your call is coming from India or some other poverty-wage shhthole. The caller is wearing a headset and listening to you, then clicking buttons on his computer to make "Ashley," the phone robot lady, speak back to you.
So I had some fun.
For the first call, "Ashley," who sounds like a bleach-blond sorority sister with a navel piercing, asked how I'm doing today. I usually answer "I've been better." I think I actually answered "A little nauseated."
(brief pause)
"Ashley" answered: "That's great!" This confirmed "Ashey's" status to me as a machine.
So she asked more questions about continuing my education, and I mumbled yes. And my name is Jackie Nauff, which she asked me to spell.
She asked my date of birth, which was April 1, 1951. She asked my age, which is 63.
Then she asked what education I'd prefer: High school, TV/VCR repair, computer repair, gun repair, blah blah, blah, law enforcement... I enthusiastically told her law enforcement.
Then "Ashley" wanted my email address. I slowly made up a string of nothing but M, N, W, and numbers, and read them off over the next 60 seconds.
"W... m... m... n... m... w... w... number 8... number 3... w... m... w... w... w... m... w... n... n... m... w... number 4... number 9... n... w... m... m... w... n... n... n..."
After a pause, "Ashley" asked "I'm sorry, could you repeat that?" I did the same thing, which a different randomly selected combination of M, N, W, and numbers.
"Ashley" then told me she is looking for a school that would help 63-year-old me, who wants to study "law enforcement," whatever that means, and came up with Colorado Technical University, which offers such "studies" online. I answered "Colorado, that's a nice place. I did a couple of years out there once."
"Ashley" told me the "university" would send me information soon. I figured "Ashely" was pretty dense, so I had to end the game. I told her to put my number on her company's Do Not Call list, and to mail a copy of the company's Do Not Call policy to me, which is required by law to be made available to anyone who asks for it.
After another pause, "Ashley" said she was sorry, and she would take me off their list. Then she disconnected.
But a few weeks later, she called back. She said she's calling on behalf of Academic Advisers, and asked how I was doing, and I grunted "Nyahhh!"
"Ashley" thought that was fantastic, and asked if I were interested in continuing my education. I gave her another affirmative grunt.
She then said something else, maybe asking for my email. I replied, "You're not wearing panties, are you?"
(brief pause)
She asked, "I'm sorry, could you repeat that?"
So I replied, "You're a robot, and you don't wear panties!"
She scolded me: "I am a live agent, and the answers are pre-recorded, so it's all according to the script."
I gave her a sincere mea culpa. "Ohh, I'm sorry about that!" She asked my email address again. then I answered her question: "But you're still not wearing panties!"
She hung up on me.
You'd think "Ashley" would have learned her lesson. But several weeks passed, and she called me this morning for the third time.
I got "Hello, this is Ashley calling on behalf of Academic Advisers, how are you today?"
I wanted to play again. So I answered "The room's spinning around now, if you know what I mean...!" She paused, then hung up without saying anything. Remember "Ashley" is the phone robot lady, who is controlled by some wage slave in India who wears headphones and listens to your responses.
So if "Ashley" calls you, tell her "You sound like a girl who doesn't wear panties to work. You know, like a lifeguard!"
As others have written, repeated calls w/no message left. I got a kick out of what one person wrote, but I don't answer when I don't know the caller so have never spoken to "Ashley". Others say whoever calls hangs up if you answer. Beats me.