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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lindentreeisle
2007-01-22 04:40 pm UTC (link)

That's why this is such bs...People just like to make it look as if telemarketers must all be stupid assholes, because that makes the callee feel better about acting like a cunt.

I had to work when I was in college. In summer, that meant coming home from my out-of-state college to find a temporary summer job. I worked at a market research place for two summers because despite my high intelligence and education, years of retail and customer service experience, and excellent work ethic, I could not get a job anywhere else. The reason I was given most is because my school year started a week before the local kids went back to school and "summer was over." It was totally absurd and it forced me into a job I hated.

So I did the only reasonable thing: took a job making $7.50 an hour to annoy the shit out of people and get cussed at, and resolved to hate everyone in the universe. Every caller was potentially that fucking manager at Auntie Anne's pretzel stand who wanted to spend another two weeks finding an employee to work a week longer in August.

I think there was a point in there somewhere, but I forget what it was, so in conclusion, we should encourage world peace by banning telemarketing and pretzel stands.

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