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	soleta 2005-07-22 07:16 pm UTC (link)
	whenever I tell anyone about my job they automatically think I'm a telemarketer, so I may be a bit defensive, but: wow. someone's underwear is entirely too tight. (Reply to this)

	ecchaniz0r 2005-07-22 07:29 pm UTC (link)
	I tried to be reasonable! Then he waved his tiny dick. XD (seekritly yukie1013 too!) (Reply to this)(Thread)

	smo 2005-07-23 09:41 pm UTC (link)
	<333333333s j00 (Reply to this)(Parent)

ladystarlight
2005-07-22 07:48 pm UTC (link)

Oh, god, this brought back some horrible memories of the two weeks I did telemarketing from my home phone. I was probably teh worsest evah! telemarketer and didn't make any sales at all, but a lot of people told me "you don't sound like a telemarketer".

But, as a couple people pointed out -- there were no other jobs available! And I didn't post this in the original thread because I really don't feel like being told what an asshole I was/am and threatened with death, kthxbai.

(cleans up own spooge)

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	lindentreeisle 2005-07-22 08:28 pm UTC (link)
	That was really my feeling. I needed a summer job and no one else would hire me because i could only work halfway into August. And the next summer? It happened again. It was like being in hell. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	mistressrenet 2005-07-23 03:01 am UTC (link)
	There are a lot of very nice telemarketers up there. I get my anger out at the assholes by hanging up on them. Maybe spoogomatic should try that. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2005-07-22 08:23 pm UTC (link)
	Whoa, somebody has lost a little perspective. It's a two-minute phone call, not an attempt to break into your house and rape your goldfish, sir. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	panthea 2005-07-23 04:08 pm UTC (link)
	Damn. No one rapes my goldfish. They feel so unsexy and alone now. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	omnicrom 2005-07-24 01:32 pm UTC (link)
	I suggest metaquoting that. I would myself except I suck. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	panthea 2005-07-24 02:04 pm UTC (link)
	...well, I can't do it. That would be rather narcissistic. PRICKTEASE! (Reply to this)(Parent)

	issendai 2005-07-25 04:04 pm UTC (link)
	I'd offer to rape your goldfish, but with Metaquoting looming over our heads, I'd hate to be pegged as insensitive to piscines. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	panthea 2005-07-25 04:25 pm UTC (link)
	Won't someone please think of the goldfish? They think of you... well, you know the rest. And then forget fifteen seconds later. (Reply to this)(Parent)

cat_mcdougall
2005-07-22 08:34 pm UTC (link)

I feel all neglected now.

I am not on the DNC list, yet I only get like maybe 1-2 month.

And yes, some telemarketers are nasty and pushy, but most of the ones I've run into I've simply said "I'm sorry. I'm not interested right now." And they've responded with "Thank you for your time, sir. Have a good evening." My one bitch is that they always think I'm a 'sir' rather than a ma'am. I'm female dammit!

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	elanor_durall 2005-07-23 12:35 am UTC (link)
	Lucky. I once had over thirty new calls on my caller ID when I came back from a weekend away, all of which were telemarketers. I hate them with the intensity of a thousand burning telephones. (Reply to this)(Parent)

ladybirdsleeps
2005-07-22 08:54 pm UTC (link)

How much do you want to bet that he also yells at the unemployed for not having a job?

Telemarketing is annoying and invasive, and a lot of telemarketers are dishonest and waste my time trying to get past me to my stepdad (who runs a business using our home number). We probably get five telemarketing calls a day, which really sucks.

And yet some people do it because they have to EAT and the job market here SUCKS ASS. At least three of my friends have done it because they couldn't find anyone else that would hire them and they were HUNGRY.

/wank

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platedlizard
2005-07-23 03:44 am UTC (link)

My second absolute most favorite type of telemarketors are the ones who call a GREAT BIG STORE run by a GIANT CORPERATION advertizing floor cleaning or accounting or somesuch. Generally said giant store will find whomever they need to clean floors, rather then the other way around.

My first most favorite type of telemarketor is the similar, only with the added bonus of being a computer rather then a human being. As far as I am conserned, any business using a fucking machine to do the calling and talking deserves to DIE kthnxbi

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	mireille 2005-07-23 11:19 pm UTC (link)
	My favorite type is the one that has the computer call you, and when you pick up the phone, it says, "Please hold for an important message." What boggles me is that these strategies appear to be successful enough that they keep doing it. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	platedlizard 2005-07-24 06:12 am UTC (link)
	Oh yes, it must be the telephonic equivalent of spam. The phone calls I get usually ask me to call back for an important business opportunity. Probably to charge us $90 a minute. It probably works just often enough to make oodles of money for the bastards. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	omnicrom 2005-07-24 01:36 pm UTC (link)
	It's like soap operas and soft-core porn. Noone ever admits to watching them and yet they're still some of the most successful stuff on TV. They keep spamming and calling and showing so SOMEONE must watch it/buy through them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	ladysorka 2005-07-22 09:16 pm UTC (link)
	Yes. Those six months I spent selling credit cards because I had to eat was definitely a job I really wanted to have. I did it because I liked getting screamed at and having to be insanely polite to the people doing the screaming. Uh-huh. Sure. (Reply to this)

	atalantapendrag 2005-07-22 09:39 pm UTC (link)
	My ex-husband did telemarketing for a while. From what I could tell, it's the poor schlubs working the phones who are really getting screwed over. (Reply to this)

	geekmagirl 2005-07-22 11:41 pm UTC (link)
	Jesus, the market is so bad around here that that's one of the only jobs to have. I lasted three months before I gave up and quit. The job sucks ass, but all it taught me is that some people aren't smart enough to just say "Not interested" and hang up. Yet I'm the one that's the bad guy. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jedilora 2005-07-23 02:12 am UTC (link)
	Your icon makes me happy in my pants. MmmNewsies. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	rosehiptea 2005-07-23 02:02 am UTC (link)
	Am I bad if I thought some of the people she called were pretty funny? I liked the "Carmen I met in the bar last night." and "I live underground." Maybe I don't get out enough. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	msmanna 2005-07-23 11:29 am UTC (link)
	Am I bad if I thought some of the people she called were pretty funny? Heh. If that's bad, then I don't want to be good. Heck, I even thought the the guy who jerked off while she was trying to sell him windows was pretty funny. I wonder if he always had a telemarketer fetish, or if he just got so many calls that he decided to develop one? (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	the_wanlorn 2005-07-23 09:48 pm UTC (link)
	All the interesting people are in hell. ;-) (Reply to this)(Parent)

	smo 2005-07-23 09:53 pm UTC (link)
	I liked that one too, in no small part because my 2nd/3rd grade teacher's name was Carmen. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	lurker32 2005-07-23 02:19 am UTC (link)
	markfinn: Bugger... 1 missed close italics tag, and the whole thing looks like crap. My apologies folks. Sweetie, it's not the broken tag that's doing that. (Reply to this)

	sepiamagpie 2005-07-23 02:48 am UTC (link)
	man. Apparently being polite to telemarketers is where I've been going wrong all along. I should crush their souls! Because it's not like they're human beings or anything. (Reply to this)

smo
2005-07-23 09:51 pm UTC (link)

I swear I've met this

markfinn character before, or someone like him, when I was working the concession stand at a major chain movie theater between my freshman and sophomore years of college. These guys thought they'd Uncovered Some Great Scheme by noticing that I tried to sell them the large for a quarter more just like I did for the person ahead of them in line. Rather than inferring from this that I was forced to ask customers this in return for my pitiful wage and slave labor hours, they inferred that I was obviously a criminal mastermind who was trying to fleece them of their hard-earned money because I was out to get them for personal reasons. Well, sir, I didn't have anything against you as a person before, but you can bet I do now. Congratulations, "Sir," you just bitched out an 18-year-old working for minimum wage at the only place that would hire her just for the summer. I hope you feel like a real man now.

I think all people who think they're doing the world a public service by bitching out underpaid minions should be forced to work on the other side of the counter/phone/tax bracket, and see how they like it.

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	flightstothesea 2005-07-24 02:54 am UTC (link)
	Well, some people work out their feelings of inadequacy by going to therapy. Others do it by acting like assholes to people who are misfortunate enough to have a job like that. I hate telemarketers, but I usually just hang up on them. Still rude, but not as bad as berating them for having the shit job they have. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	smo 2005-07-24 03:21 am UTC (link)
	Yeah, seriously. As if the job didn't suck enough already. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Anonymous)
2005-08-01 01:55 pm UTC (link)

"I'm not interested" works better, even if it's not viscerally as satisfying. If you just hang up, they're still allowed (and depending on where they're telemarketing from and why, sometimes obligated) to continue calling you, but those three words will get you permanently off the calling list every time, whether you're in the national DNC registry or not. And if they keep calling after that, you're allowed to threaten them with lawsuits.

-Mouse with crappy telemarketing summer job

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platedlizard
2005-07-24 06:23 am UTC (link)

My most favorite memory of working at the Big Fast Food Corp Resteraunt (well, aside from my final check bouncing. NICE WAY TO TREAT YOUR EMPLOYEES, GUYS!) was some asshole in a suit throwing a cheeseburger at me. Because, of course, me and the cooks were TOTALLY out to get him.

And it was always the guys or gals in suits that you had to watch out for. Apparently we fast-food workers are the lowest of the low, and therefore don't deserve basic human kindness.
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	smo 2005-07-24 12:27 pm UTC (link)
	I've heard from my waitstaff friends that they're the worst tippers, too. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jaseroque 2005-07-24 07:11 am UTC (link)
	My friend took on a telemarketing job for a few months. In true John style, he at one point managed to ring an elevator emergency phone. We're still not sure how. John: Hello, is this ? Guy on other end, sounding rather echoey: Mate, this is the elevator. John: ... ah. Well, could I interest you in buying cable internet? (Reply to this)(Thread)

	issendai 2005-07-25 04:07 pm UTC (link)
	BAHAHAHAHAHA o god. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	windex_junkie 2005-07-24 12:11 pm UTC (link)
	What an utter cunt. Who else caught the part where he says that it's not work because it's not "physical"? And then, elsewhere, he tosses in a line about having to GRADE PAPERS. I guess he counts that as heavy lifting. (Reply to this)(Thread)

	jrs1980 2005-07-26 03:47 am UTC (link)
	I took that as more "See, my job is meaningful. Think of the CHILDREN!" I work the phones, too, and one of the reasons I...don't hate it is because it's not physical. "And do you know about blah blah blah reads newspaper" (Reply to this)(Parent)

	madelfdisease 2005-07-24 10:27 pm UTC (link)
	That guy is just an utter twat. Who is he to judge how some poor person chooses to make a living? It might be annoying, but it's legal and might pay the bills. Of course, he probably also bitches about all those damn wellfare moms eating bon bons and stealing his money, so hopefully karma catches up with him. (Reply to this)

annaham
2005-07-25 04:10 am UTC (link)

I love how this Markfinn guy acts all high and mighty and like he's never had a horrible job before. Pfft.

I worked at a large department store last Christmas in the gift wrap department and I and my coworkers would get yelled at often for things that were (usually) beyond our control. My personal favorite was the woman who yelled at me because I couldn't wrap her gifts FIRST, as we had about 80 packages to wrap within forty minutes. Ugh. Okay, that was a tangent, but markfinn's idiocy makes me laugh.

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