The ability of companies to assume that every dwelling in the country contains a husband, wife and 2.4 children knows no bounds. I'm sure there can't be that many delusional people in the world that these companies can put on the end of a phone line. They must train it out of them at bigot camp or something.

In fact having thought about it, considering the pay of you average phone monkey or delivery person, they must live in households where nobody stays at home all day. You cannot support more than one person on a salary like that. This world is insane and I'm starting a new one.

Yeah, but on the other hand if they can't afford enough money to keep a second person on, they probably also don't mail-order large computers terribly often, so it won't surprise them that they don't themselves satisfy the assumptions they make about me...

Humans are vastly less rational than they like to think they are.
Also, anyone with the brains to think "outside the box" almost certainly can get a better job than "call centre droid".