OT: Do you hate Telemarketters as much as I do?

[Buttercup]

Ok all you Telecom Haters

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So shove it ok,

I dont want to here but they are annoying

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If you dont like Telecom have your phone number unlisted they just take a phone book and start dialing down the list its all they do. Or if they use randon dialers its still your obligation to either put a block on your phone for certain numbers or to unlist your number Get Caller ID

Look, I never asked for your phone calls. I have a phone for my convenience not yours. I also have an unlisted phone number. I've tried being polite, but I continue to get calls by irritating schmucks. So now, I'm no longer polite. I don't care that you don't want to hear it. If you invade my privacy, you shouldn't be surprised or offended at any crap you get. Further, I've never bought anything over the phone, so your argument that eliminating telemarketing would make life harder just doesn't wash. Telemarketers are annoying. Get a real job.

 

[Holy Bovine]

Ok all you Telecom Haters

Here is the freaking deal....We go to work take crap all day from idiots who do stupid things the way you guys described or worse
Not to mention the monitorings from our upty ups, and We cant tell you to get a life, go to hell, or Hang up on you

So shove it ok,

I dont want to here but they are annoying, so what so we are the ants in your pants, We are a necessary evil without Telecom, and the people who slave for it Alot of the things you find useful would be A) harder to get, B) Not even there, or C) a headache to repair

At the least we are courteous if you say no more than twice we say well thanks and have a nice day. We say Hello, Please, If you would like, and Have a nice day which is alot less annoying than the things that People with your philosophies like to say.

So next time the friendly voice of the Visa Salesman comes on the Phone don't be a jerk, cuz hey he might just be a DnDer, or a nice guy who is working in an evil industry.

If you dont like Telecom have your phone number unlisted they just take a phone book and start dialing down the list its all they do. Or if they use randon dialers its still your obligation to either put a block on your phone for certain numbers or to unlist your number Get Caller ID

RANT ENDED


OH and hmm hmm Have a nice day hmm hmm



Just felt I should play my own devils advocate

Oh please, spare me your sob story about how Cruel and Awful us 'jerks' are who hate telemarketers.

You invade our homes and use our liesure time to sell us your crappy wares/service/whatever and you are surprised and hurt that no one likes you?

The average North American is overwhelmed with ads for more and more crap that we don't need - we see it everyday and twice on Sunday, now the phone has become the enemy.

You suggest it is our responsibility to have our phone numbers delisted from the phone book? Do you know phone companies actually charge you to do this?

If the company you work for is so EEEEEVIL then find a new company - fast.

I'm sure you are a great and wonderful person too, get our of telemarketing and we can all live healthier and longer lives

 

[Old One]

Two Words, People...

Call Intercept

Call Intercept...available free if you subscribe to Caller ID in most major US telephone markets...is awesome. If a number comes up as "out-of-area" or "private" on the Caller ID, the phone rings with a special ring and the call is sent to a special temporary holding area where the caller has to state their name and purpose of their call.

If, after listening to who they are, you decide not to accept the call, you flush 'em! We have been in our new place for about 18 months, with this feature, and have gotten ZERO telemarketing calls!

We do have a few friends and family members that show up as "out-of-area" or "private", but we just give them a special passcode to bypass the system.

Call Intercept...the next best thing to sueing them!

~ Old One

 

[Furn_Darkside]

Here is the freaking deal....We go to work take crap all day from idiots who do stupid things the way you guys described or worse
Not to mention the monitorings from our upty ups, and We cant tell you to get a life, go to hell, or Hang up on you

Then get a job that does not harrass people.

Telemarketers are either:

1) incompetent people who can't get a job that allows self-respect
2) inconsiderate people who would hate to be bothered the same way
3) both

I hate telemarketers more then I hate lawyers and doctors- and that is some feat.

My solution when a child:
Leave the phone off the hook near the parrot, who could only say the following:
"Hello!"
"You are so pretty.."
"I love you!"

FD

 

[drnuncheon]

I think my best telemarketer call went something like this.

Them: Hi, I'm calling from Foobar Long Distance, and-

Me: (very politely) Oh, I'm sorry. I don't have a phone. (click)


I hope I made that man's day just a little more surreal.

J

 

[Nifft]

4) This is a little childish, but it's a LOT of fun. Remember when you were a kid and you would repeat what somebody else would say until it drove them nuts? Well, I can attest to the fact that telemarketers hate it too! Just listen for a few seconds and then start repeating what they say back to them word for word. Say NOTHING else. Just repeat what they say until they hang up. This has earned me more foul language than any of the other tactics. Probably more than all of the others combined.

I've taken to answering my phone with an inquisitive "Pika?" Most of my friends know to respond with an enthusiastic "Chu!"

If it turns out to to be a telemarketer, though, I'll keep with the "pika" schtick. They'll get through their pre-programmed speech without noticing that I'm not exactly speaking english. Then begins the fun.

They get very confused by the persistant "Pika". They won't give up, though. They'll ask "What are you talking about?", "Do you speak english?", "How old are you?", "Are your parents home?" ... and then you will have them. They will say, "pika?"

I kept one guy on the phone for 15 minutes this way. That's probably 30 people he was unable to annoy, and I got to hear him totally befuddled, and I didn't need to resort to profanity or abuse*.

They key is inflection. You can be as emotionally expressive as possible, but limit your actual content to the word "pika".

Your goal should always be to waste their time and sanity points. The more stress they get and the less money they get, the more likely they are to change jobs.

-- Nifft



* Don't get me wrong. Abuse is fun, too. See how long you can insult the marketdroid without resorting to profanity:
- "You are a disease."
- "You stink -- how can you stand yourself?"
- "I'll bet you're unattractive."
- "Does your mother know you annoy people all day?"
- "You contribute nothing to the world."
- "Could you sink any lower?"
- "Do you actually like who you've become?"
- "Couldn't you be doing something better?"
- "Do you have any real skills?"

 

[Zappo]

I dont want to here but they are annoying, so what so we are the ants in your pants, We are a necessary evil without Telecom, and the people who slave for it Alot of the things you find useful would be A) harder to get, B) Not even there, or C) a headache to repair

I've never, ever used or bought any product or service offered to me by phone. They are invariably either useless or stuff that I can get easily elsewhere.

Look, I'm sorry, but you guys are really annoying. Nothing personal, you understand.

 

[Arravis]

I have my answering machine programmed to pick up if the caller ID number is blocked or shows up as unknown. 99% of telemarketing calls are that way, so it works out nicely for me .

 

[Tsyr]

Right now when I pick up at home, instead of my father, I've taken to speaking in japanese... I'm hardly fluent, but they don't know that... and I know enough to make it sound like I am

 

[Ilen]

1) incompetent people who can't get a job that allows self-respect
2) inconsiderate people who would hate to be bothered the same way
3) both

Nice to know you've met all Telemarketers and done thorough investigations of them all.

They may also need flexible hours. Or it may simply be the best job they could get on short notice. And just how does being a Telemarketer eliminate self-respect? Or you do you mean that in the sense that it isn't a job you brag about, nor is a job at a Fast Food joint, or being a Garbage Man.

Anyway, a simple, “I’m not interested, please remove me from your list.” Will get the job done, and best of all if they call back you are legally in the right to sue their freaking asses off.

At least some have admitted it, playing with the Telemarketer is just being childish. If you really value your time so much why don’t you simply utter the phrase mentioned above, they hang up, they (the particular company) stop calling and you can go back to your life instead of wasting your oh so precious minutes toying with the person on the other end of the phone.

I've never, ever used or bought any product or service offered to me by phone. They are invariably either useless or stuff that I can get easily elsewhere.

Look, I'm sorry, but you guys are really annoying. Nothing personal, you understand.

Of course somebody else must, else Telemarketing wouldn’t be a viable business. As far as people who find them annoying, that’s cool, but when you toy with them you prove how wide your childish streak is, how you time isn’t as important to you as you proclaim. And people who claim they are the scum of the universe because of the job they hold need a reality check, they aren’t going around stealing babies or such, they are calling you, an experience that can be over in 30 seconds if you handle it correctly