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 08:38 pm UTC (link)

I'm a lot more annoyed by regular people who call me over and over, looking for someone else. WTF did I not tell you this wasn't their number the last three times!

Best one of those had to be the one that happened to my Dad when he bought his house. Since he'd gotten a new number as well at the time, he expected the first week or so to get some people trying to get the previous folks at the number. Well, there were these couple people who kept trying to get in touch with Mary and no amount of my Dad's brusque "No one here by that name. *click*" seemed to work.

Then he had my Uncle move in with him since the house had been previously owned by elderly people who couldn't handle the upkeep and my Uncle's pretty handy with house repairs, the fun started. Since at this point it'd been about two months of this going on with these people looking for Mary and being repeately told they had the wrong number, my Uncle started replying with "Oh, you just missed her, she left with a couple guys." and when asked who, he'd just pick names out of the air.

My Dad ended up going along with it and the variations of 'Don't know when she'll be back, I think she took a weekend bag with her' or 'Think it was a party since I saw a keg in the back' were tossed in.

This ended up going on for two years before they pretty much stopped. My Uncle figured they either finally caught up with Mary and got the new number, or had at that point completely ruined her friendbase.

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	your_face 2007-01-23 05:45 am UTC (link)
	...I've so got to try that next time. Your uncle FTW. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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