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 07:26 pm UTC (link)

That beats the "I will hunt you down" calls that happened to a couple friends of mine at my last job.

In both cases, the guys are snarky and somehow are able to pull it off without getting into trouble.

First one happened to 'B'. Guy's computer issue after about 45 minutes on the call turned out it wasn't our software and the only thing left after trying everything possible over the phone was to call the computer manufacturer. Guy went ballistic and started with "I know where you work" and gave the address for our location. Not a hard thing on that since it was one of the major employers out here.

B just without losing pace says "Okay. But I do know where you live and it's only a few blocks away from where I live."

Guy just got quiet and hung up the phone.

The other one happened to 'J'. J used to be in the military, served in combat so he's completely unflappable. Call was about an hour long, issue ended up being the computer so bogged down with spyware that no removal program could be downloaded so the guy had to take the computer to a shop for them to clear it out. I'm in between calls so I was able to pay full attention at this part. Guy threatens he's coming down to the building with a gun, and J in his same chipper tone says "Okay, if that's what you feel you have to do. After you get past security, you'll want to head down the main row to the back and turn left, I'll be wearing the green and white shirt and I do have a baseball cap on just so when you're brought in on murder charges you at least shot the right person."

Don't know what the guy said after that, but J was grinning and began setting up for his next call.

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