Anyone Had A Ipsos Mori Interviewer At There Door?

[JG1965]

My elderly mother who has had a stroke had a Ipsos Mori interviewer thumping at her door, ringing her doorbell and rattling her letterbox for five minutes at lunch-time today, she does not answer her door to people she does not know, so she did not answer, she has a video viewer so she can see who is at the door. He slipped a letter through the door saying he was from Ipsos Mori.
Then about an hour ago he came back again and was thumping on the door, ringing the doorbell, and rattling the letterbox again but this time started thumping on the living room window and scared my mother, he was there another five minutes before he went away. What I want to know is how these people are allowed to come to the doors of elderly people and scare them like this, if she was going to answer the door to him she would have within the five minutes, I am just hoping they don't call again and if they do I am there as they will get a mouth full.
I have complained to Ipsos Mori but have yet to hear back from them.

[emmie]

until i looked them up never heard of them,
i remember the mori poll, same thing?
if i were you i would ring them again and also see if the link i provided has a website, complain and complain again, and say that if they do it again you will contact the police.

http://www.ipsos-mori.com/

[emmie]

seems enough info on their website to be going on with. I wouldn't stand for this harassment.

[Zeuhl]

I don't think there's any law against calling at someone's door

that's what door bells are for

5 minutes? Really?

if your mother is so distressed by such a normal, harmless event perhaps she needs to be in sheltered accommodation

[Zeuhl]

I wouldn't stand for this harassment. /

PMSL

em, since when has calling at an address and returning once been 'harassment'?

some hyper sensitivity and over reaction here I think

[emmie]

if someone did that on my door, then started banging on the window i wouldn't call that harmless, nor a short time. If it was the emergency services or someone she knows then that would be different. why did they come back when he/she didn't get an answer the first time.

[emmie]

no it isn't. My mother has had this sort of thing happen, it's unpleasant, and you don't know who they are. And she is not ready for the knackers yard yet

[margie04]

Thumping on someone's window is going a bit far, Zeuhl, surely.

[JG1965]

Zeuhl, I think that is very rude, old people are told all the time not to answer the door to strangers, do you work for Mori. I wonder what you would have felt if someone suddenly thumped on your window.
She lives in a row of bungalows especially for the elderly and I would not call all the knocking and thumping a normal, harmless event.

[rockyracoon]

JG, get one of those signs put on the front door about certain callers not being welcome. Banging on someones window is not acceptable.

[emmie]

jg, nor would i. Had it been me, and i am a bit more mobile, they would have had something unpleasant thrown over them

[Zeuhl]

They would have to negotiate a locked gate and a long driveway to knock on my window LOL

But when a window is easily accessible I don't think it's that unusual to knock on it - especially when it's known that the resident is elderly and may be hard of hearing or may want to see id through the glass before coming to the door

Remember 'thumping' and 'banging' are subjective terms and may be exaggerations.

As the pollster devoted so much time and effort to contacting this lady, I would guess that they had a particular reason based on her personal demographic or the profile of her address to want her opinion.

Of course, one alternative would be to exclude all elderly people from research programmes and polls but so often we hear the plaintive response to such things 'well they never asked me'

[emmie]

if the lady in question has had a stroke, there is no saying how mobile she is, nor indeed whether she is able to speak, as is well known with many stroke victims, it takes time to recover and sometimes the person doesn't get full function again.

[emmie]

i never answer the door if i am not expecting anyone, they can stand out there till hell freezes over, or call me which ever comes first.

[AlwaysConfused]

a few taps at the door are enough. I don't answer the door unless I know who is there, either. Tap away, I ain't coming! But five minutes!?! No, that it wrong. I WOULD open the door after that amount of time, but they probably wouldn't live to tell the tale

[Zeuhl]

I would sympathise with that situation em - my uncle is disabled from a bad stroke

But I don't think that personal circumstance (regrettable though it is) suddenly makes people calling at one's door an unacceptable behaviour

[craft1948]

Zeuhl I'm only 64 but live on my own. If someone came banging on my windows even I would find it frightening..............before setting the dog on him.

[emmie]

i don't think you are old, some on here are, and most of us would say that caution is the best way.

[Zeuhl]

Blimey

are we becoming a nation of neurotic recluses? :-)

good job we don't combine it with the usa's level of gun ownership

[jimrkelleher]

Hello, please go to http://www.ipsos-mori.com/contactus/approachedbyus/facetoface.aspx#interviewercomplaint for more information about contacting Ipsos MORI

[Zeuhl]

^
in all fairness that is a good idea

they should speak to the person involved and check if there are any 'training issues'