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.

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aposiopetic
2007-01-20 12:59 am UTC (link)

I don't get it either. Maybe my house has had it well, but telemarketers are, at worst, a mild nuisance. If people in there gripe about people paying for small orders with large bills and actually ordering items off the menu (which yes, are annoying), I don't see how on earth they think it's acceptable to be an unmitigated douchebag to other people who are only doing their equally shitty jobs.

I really don't understand the ones who purposely scream and blow air horns into the phone. Who the hell raised them to think that that was okay?

When my mother was going back to college when I was eight or so, she once had a bunch of words and seven commas to put them all into one sentence as a homework assignment.

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	elemcee 2007-01-20 01:03 am UTC (link)
	I always wonder how many of the poor abused posters at C_S actually are really awful customers themselves, sometimes. But, yep, here's some confirmation. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	jrs1980 2007-01-20 01:07 am UTC (link)
	Part of it, I'm sure, is that the mod has said that since telemarketers don't have actual customers, but rather potential customers, it's okay to verbally stone them. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

	(Anonymous) 2007-01-21 12:41 am UTC (link)
	I fail to see how its different from any of the stories where its just a random person who's not actually buying anything from a C_Ser being an arse to them. Does that mean its okay for me to yell and scream at various salespeople just because I'm not actually buying anything from them? djs_specs@LJ.com (Reply to this)(Parent)

	thesilentsenshi 2007-01-20 02:15 am UTC (link)
	I don't get it either. I'm generally polite, though maybe sound mildly annoyed if interupted. But even when I'm annoyed, I just say no, not interested. If they don't take that as an answer, then I could see being pissy/bitchy, but otherwise, not really. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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