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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miss_eponine
2007-01-20 03:09 am UTC (link)

I always let them get through their first spiel, then I tell them I'm not interested but thanks and hang up before they can start in on a second one.

When I was a senior in high school I worked (for about a month) for a company that did phone surveys, and until recently I was always very polite to people who called to do those. Then, they kept calling about radio stations, and the only radio I listen to in the car is public radio so I couldn't answer the questions. The chick on the other end of the line kept pushing and pushing for me to name my favorite three stations, and I kept telling her that I only listened to one station. I finally just told her to not call me for any more surveys. But we canceled our home phone, so it doesn't really matter anymore.

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	thesilentsenshi 2007-01-20 03:22 am UTC (link)
	Same here. I got a phone survey once and said I'd do it but couldn't answer any of the questions. The girl on the other end was nice about it and laughed it off. Since then I just say no to surveys, because chances are I have nothing I can add to them. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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