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Post by child-of-fae on Mar 24, 2008 18:26:51 GMT -5
i like hanging up on telemarketers midway through theor sentence. x]
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Post by alba on Mar 24, 2008 18:30:39 GMT -5
My dad once got a telemarketer like this guy from a Monty Python sketch and couldn't resist imitating the response. He tends to be quite rude to them. I just give them to one of my parents to deal with ^_^
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Post by child-of-fae on Mar 24, 2008 18:34:15 GMT -5
lmao. my dad's childhood friend's father had big debts. like, almost as bad as the kind you declare bankruptcy for. someone from the credit card/ bank/ whatever called him and was like "Hello sir, i was just calling to clarify that you are in debt for 20,000+ (something like that, idk.)" he replied, i'll go check, can you hold on. so he puts the phone down, goes into the otehr room, and proceeds to read the newspaper. when he's done (30+ minutes later) he goes back to the phone. "Still there?" "Yes sir." "you're absolutely right" and then he hangs up.
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Post by alba on Mar 24, 2008 18:35:22 GMT -5
lol that's brilliant!
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Post by child-of-fae on Mar 24, 2008 18:37:42 GMT -5
it is, isn't it?
but, what telemarketer from monty python?
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Post by alba on Mar 24, 2008 18:45:35 GMT -5
I have no idea. My dad was telling me about it and how they guy sounded just like it, something along the lines of 'Do you want Bell internet?' 'No, we're quite happy with the service we have.' 'But we've got blah-blah-blah'. Essentially the guy was really persistent and a bit dim.
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Post by The Star Fox on Mar 24, 2008 20:27:22 GMT -5
Aren' they all?
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Post by naoise on Mar 25, 2008 1:08:05 GMT -5
people in call centers have higher suicide rates ![:o](//storage.proboards.com/forum/images/smiley/shocked.png)
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Post by starvingartist on Mar 25, 2008 2:08:14 GMT -5
I -try- to be polite right up until they're persistent. And then I just hang up. I don't even care if they do or don't notice. XD
And yeah, I can imagine they do. People can be downright abusive over the phone, when they don't have to look the other in the eye. *has been guilty of it*
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Post by AndrogynousMelon on Mar 25, 2008 4:39:16 GMT -5
The way my mother explained it; these people are calling you, coming to your door, etc. You don't have to be polite. That's how they bully you into shit- they prey on the polite. So I say "Fuck you and good day." and hang up/shut the door.
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Post by naoise on Mar 25, 2008 4:57:38 GMT -5
Well you have to realize for most people that job is about as desirable as working in a fast food joint. The fact is you need money to live. They are unskilled and maybe working as a telemarketer is the way they can make the most money under their own means. Its not the people who are phoning you who want you to have the product, if you want to blame someone, blame the person who decided to use telemarketers.
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Post by starvingartist on Mar 25, 2008 12:04:57 GMT -5
Yeah. And I mean, I've worked some SHIT jobs, so respect for your average-working-joe is something I try to keep in mind.
But telemarketers just...AUNGH. Even retail backs off.
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Post by naoise on Mar 25, 2008 12:24:01 GMT -5
Some are pretty persistent.
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Post by Aindel on Mar 25, 2008 15:38:14 GMT -5
Yeah, telemarketers drive me nuts because I can't prematurely scare them off. People in person trying to sell me stuff, I just kinda look at them for a sec, and they don't even bother to approach me. It's awesome. With telemarketers, though, they're usually looking for my parents, so everytime we see the obvious telemarketer number come up on the phone, mom picks it up and hands it to me so that I can tell them she's out of the country (my personal favourite).
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Post by alba on Mar 25, 2008 15:46:24 GMT -5
I hate that telemarketers call during dinner, because unless someone has to rush off somewhere, dinner in my house is a time to sit and talk to each other and be together as a family, and I don't like the phone ringing period then, especially not if someone's trying to sell us something we don't want.
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