History Website / JollyRogerTelephoneCompany

* SpiritualSuccessor: To "[[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCrBZYWrikliO6EPZKM7KxVQ Lenny]]," a set of recordings designed to sound like an old man which have enjoyed some popularity on [=YouTube=] and wasted the time of telemarketers and unwanted callers. However, Lenny is only one bot with a very limited repertoire, and no A.I. to customize the routine to engage. Jolly Roger, on the other hand, provides a number of different bots and has added new features over time, including the ability to pass from one bot to another when material runs out, as well as detecting certain scams and engaging custom routines.

The '''Jolly Roger Telephone Company''', sometimes shortened as simply the '''Jolly Roger Telephone Co''' is an Internet-based company which makes bots which are designed to waste the time of telemarketers. Users of the service can either transfer calls or have them intercepted by the cloud, and later receive a recording of the results. The bots are designed to trick the telemarketer into thinking they're talking with a real person and thus waste their time, preventing them from succeeding at whatever they're trying to sell or whatever scam they're trying to push. This also has the effect of preventing them from being able to call others as well during the time wasted.

* TheDividual: The "biz-bot" is a rare non-video game example.

* LikeIsLikeAComma: Salty Sally often peppers her speech with "like," i.e. "Yeah, um, okay, so, like, can you get to the point?" and "Like, I'm kind of, like, in the middle of somethin, so can you just, like, what are you ''exactly'' calling about?"

* SomethingCompletelyDifferent: One of the bots, to date only featured in a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA0vIMLZhXs single call]] on the company's [=YouTube=] channel, is a "no-bot" which will never agree with anything that the caller says. The other bots are all designed to be agreeable, if in a somewhat vague and slightly non-committal way, in order to waste as much telemarketer time as possible. This bot, however, is seemingly running a "test-board" and repeatedly ask the caller how they got routed to him and will answer direct questions with "nope" or "mm-mmm." It was created by request of one of the customers who wanted a bot that would never agree to anything. Because of this, most telemarketers hang up on it after about a minute or less, but it's still considered a "win" because it breaks their auto-dialer, causing the call to be routed to an agent and at least wasting a bit of time.

* CheerfulAI: When telemarketers and scammers have their time wasted by these bots, the telemarketers naturally get upset, although most of them don't seem to realize they're talking to bots, and unleash all kinds of verbal abuse and swearing, and some of them try to talk to female bots in a flirtatious or sexual manner. The bots, however, are not fazed by any of this. That said, though, not all of them are entirely cheerful. Salty Sally will ask the caller at one point if the call is a call of solicitation or if they're calling about something, and also will ask the caller if they can get to the point. Whiskey Jack at one point gets downright hostile, asking how he falls into the caller's database and what makes them think that he falls into their database.

* InsaneTrollLogic: The basic premise of the vacation scam heard in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88PmIm3CbCc this scam]]. The pitch is as follows: the person being called has supposedly already paid $698 on a vacation and now they have gone to the "expired accounts department" because they never actually traveled on the vacation. Therefore, the company is offering the opportunity for them pay the remaining $698 and go on the vacation, with a special offer thrown in. Either that, or if the customer doesn't pay the remaining $698, then the account will instead be sent to collections to collect this remaining $698 that they never paid. As company founder Roger Anderson points out, "So apparently I paid part of a vacation, but I never traveled. So now I'm in 'delinquent status' and I owe the balance. Like, isn't this company better off if they just keep my first payment and I never travel?" Furthermore, how can they claim to have the right to collect anything if they never provided any actual service or product?