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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also_not_a_pipe
2007-01-20 07:39 am UTC (link)

Those companies lie about everything. About three weeks after I graduated college, I interviewed job with a call center that was supposed to be tech support for a wireless internet company. Then at the interview they told me that oh, actually, when they said "wireless" they meant that they handled business for the wireless/cellular division of a major phone carrier. I took the job because phones aren't as interesting as computers, but at least it wasn't telemarketing.

During the first week they told us that we were learning about their products so that we would know what toys people were calling about. Then in about the second week of training they told us that they were going to teach us all about their plans and products because we weren't actually going to be doing technicalsupport, we were going to be helping people with their account and billing problems. And I think about the end of the fourth week, they said more or less "Oh, and did we mention that you're going to have to make sales offers on seventy to eighty percent of your calls? Here's your scripts."

I ended up quitting about a week after that because it turned out that they had lied to us about how much they intended to pay, too.

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	also_not_a_pipe 2007-01-20 07:40 am UTC (link)
	~~I interviewed job with a call center~~ Let's make that "I answered a classified ad for a job with a call center." Me type real heap good. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	khym_chanur 2007-01-20 08:08 am UTC (link)
	Huh. So was all the training they gave you where they didn't mention telemarketing helpful when telemarketing? Because I would think that training for telemarketing would be more generic sales marketing. (Reply to this)(Parent)

	belafarinrod 2007-01-20 04:26 pm UTC (link)
	whoa... what a dedicated company. On my 3 telemarketing jobs here, it's been "come in and try it after half an hour of intro talk. You get cheat notes" If you don't suck too much on first day, they hand you a contract and you're hired. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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