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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harrylovesron
2007-01-23 10:05 pm UTC (link)

Wow, they actually changed their number? That was awesome of them. I would have thought they'd be the ones who'd expect YOU to change it.

and seemed to believe that I was telling them it was a private number and the number they needed was [whatever it was] (because I checked with the hospital switchboard after the first three calls) for my own sick amusement.

That's how the misplaced condolences guy seemed to feel. I'm like, dude, it's NOT my fault he misdialed/miswrote the number, and I really was sorry he couldn't find the right person to send his condolences to, but at the same time, it was NOT my fault and I dunno WTF he expected me to do. As far as your situation, did they really honestly think a hospital ward would repeatedly tell them they had the wrong number as a joke? I'd think any employee caught doing that would be fired- and really, if they called 3 or 4 times a day and clogged up your machine, and got told they had the wrong number, shouldn't they have gotten a fucking clue and called the one you gave them? Or if they didn't believe you, checked in the phone book?

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lexin
2007-01-23 11:08 pm UTC (link)

That was awesome of them. I would have thought they'd be the ones who'd expect YOU to change it.

It did take a couple of calls to persuade them that as they were a teaching hospital it would be easier for them to get their on-site telephone engineers to change an extension than it would for me to contact my phone company and change the number - which I'd expect them to pay for. But it was easier than I'd expected it would be.

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