{"id":646157,"date":"2010-01-28T08:00:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T13:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10001327"},"modified":"2010-01-28T06:57:05","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:57:05","slug":"how-should-i-go-about-whistle-blowing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/646157","title":{"rendered":"How Should I Go About Whistle Blowing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/01\/whistle-thumb-158x118-36431.jpg?w=780\">         <\/p>\n<p>Scott says his company is misusing customers&#8217; phone numbers to subject them to unwanted promotions. He wants to tell the company honchos and would like some advice for how to proceed. He writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I work at a company that I feel is doing something we shouldn&#8217;t.  We have started calling customers to offer a free promotion.  I feel that we got these customers phone numbers for a different reason and that it is wrong to call them all to advertise with special promotions. I have taken a big risk by sending a survey out to all of our employees to see what they thought, and so far, everyone agrees with me.  I plan on presenting my arguments in a speech to the corporate office which I believe I can arrange in a couple of weeks.  I am seeking advice from those who stick up for the customer for a living.  Anything you could tell me would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>If you&#8217;ve ever been a whistle blower, or heck, if you just want to play armchair tattletale, give Scott some advice in the comments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scott says his company is misusing customers&#8217; phone numbers to subject them to unwanted promotions. He wants to tell the company honchos and would like some advice for how to proceed. He writes: I work at a company that I feel is doing something we shouldn&#8217;t. We have started calling customers to offer a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2903,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2I5T","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2903"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}