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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pointandlaugh
2007-01-20 04:20 pm UTC (link)

When I worked there it wasn't quite that high tech - you just had supervisors listening to your calls. And if they heard you give in without rebutting arguments often you were in for a yelling.

(And before anyone thinks getting fired from that job wouldn't be terribly horrible, they would also tell the unemployment office after firing you certain things that would stop you getting any benefits. Having beenn out of it for 7 years I'm pretty sure they were acting illegally towards employees, but we were all 16/17 and terrified of them)

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	tez 2007-01-20 06:48 pm UTC (link)
	Same result then -- if you don't make a serious effort to sell them you get yelled at. (Oh lord, I can imagine -- having tangled with the state L&I department over an unemployment claim, I've learned that all they have to do is say you were fired with cause and zippo, nada, no benefits for you.) (Reply to this)(Parent)

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