Does wank + telemarketing = phone sex?
Oh, customers_suck, you bastion of wank.

shadowsync posts a potentially wanky list of things to do when a telemarketer calls (how to get them to stop calling you the polite way, but phrased badly).

Of course, it's customers_suck. Are they going to let them live it down?

Not if they can help it!

Be sure to look out for

tigerwolf's comment about his newly-purchased airhorn (second page), and

susano_otter's comment about how telemarketing is equivalent to selling yourself (second linked thread, last comment).

And, of course, there's a condensed version of the stupid on stupid_free.

Telemarketing: only the strong survive.

ETA: Fixed to include link to original post.

(Read comments) - (Post a new comment)

moonjaguar
2007-01-20 12:37 am UTC (link)

That never worked-- I still occasionally find voicemail messages asking if I want to subscribe to a newspaper that doesn't have home delivery in my town. I thought they'd've gotten the news about that by now but my guess is telemarketers selling newspaper subs likely aren't from the area the paper originates. Friend of mine did telemarketing for a year (whoa!) and she mentioned how many subs to Philly Inquirers and other 1000+-miles-away papers she sold or didn't sell.

I pretended I was a burglar once and the agent played along.

(Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	hristaesir 2007-01-20 05:48 am UTC (link)
	Qwest keeps sending me junkmail asking me to get DSL from them. Never mind that I TRIED to get DSL from them and they don't have service where I live. Now even if they did manage to get DSL in my neighborhood I wouldn't get it just because I'm so pissed that they left me stuck with Comcast. (Reply to this)(Parent)

(Read comments) -