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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(Anonymous)
2007-01-20 04:05 am UTC (link)

It really ISN'T in people's dictionaries, a lot of the time. Or at least not in their bosses' dictionaries, which are the ones that matter. Most companies actively won't allow telemarketers take anything less than some variation on the magic words "Please remove me from your calling list" as a reason to stop calling.

When I was stuck telemarketing, sometimes when my bosses weren't around I would take pity on the people who didn't grasp that fact and reply to frustrated "No, I'm not interested" responses by prompting them to tell me if they wanted to be removed from the calling list. Against the spirit if not the letter of the rules, but I think it's probably safe to assume that I wasn't costing the company much business. How many people who refuse the first three or four times will spontaneously change their mind on call number five?

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