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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v_digitalwytch
2007-01-22 07:01 pm UTC (link)

It was over a decade or so ago on Miss Manners column where someone asked her what was the proper etiquette for answering when the phone and the doorbell were ringing at the same time. She replied that even though phones were pretty much a staple at this point in homes, they still are essentially a luxury item so the door had priority and that one wasn't obligated to answer the phone all the time.

At that point I gave up near breaking a leg trying to answer the phone (we had two large dogs that'd sprawl down the hallway where the phone was so to hurry ended up doing something like the football exercise with the tires between dog legs to get to there).

As far as the telemarketer thing goes, we're on the Do Not Call list which really ended up being nice since it's cut down dramatically the calls we'd get. However I'm still partial to the trick I'd use before it was created.

When I was working at Blockbuster Video, one of daily grind crap was to call those who had movies 3+ days late with a reminder that the movies were late and fees were accruing. Quite a few numbers would naturally end up disconnected since no one really thinks to update thier video membership when they change numbers or whatnot so one day I taped that initial tone before the recording kicks on that the number's not in service. I put it on my answer machine and followed it with my usual message. Since most telemarketers and the automated machine dialers will hang up at that tone, it worked rather nicely.

Did give my Dad a good shock the one time he called since at first he thought I'd fallen behind on my bills.

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