Are you even as little ashamed of what you’re doing?
Do you realize it’s an invasion of peoples time and privacy?
Are you concerned only that your getting paid regardless of the frustration you cause other people?
Actually, Flyer DID suggest a useful magic incantation – if only all telemarketing companies would honor it.
Forget all the nitpicky wording rules about “Take me off your calling list” or “Add me to your do-not-call list” or whatever, which they’ll ignore if you so much as put some accent on the wrong syllable.
Just tell them you’ve just had a death in the family and you aren’t prepared to do any telephone business for the next dozen years or so. Tell them you’re sitting shiva. Especially if they ask for a specific person, tell them that person is dead, or in jail.
I believe you’re talking about the classic from Cervaise, The Telemarketer Speaks. I Respond.
Why would you waste your time doing that? Can’t you take a hint? Do you have unlimited funds and/or just like to harass people (and calling repeatedly is the very definition of it). Wouldn’t your time be spent more productively finding other [del]suckers[/del] people?
Why would you waste your time doing that? Can’t you take a hint? Do you have unlimited funds and/or just like to harass people (and calling repeatedly is the very definition of it). Wouldn’t your time be spent more productively finding other [del]suckers[/del] people?
That’s a classic, all right. Whatever happened to Cervaise? He/she/it hasn’t logged on since 2009.
Bingo, Ferret Herder! That, and for the necessary background, the earlier thread cited in that OP.
If somebody told me that their answers were lies, I would pass the buck to my supervisor.
These two quotes perfectly illustrate the portion in my OP where I talked about misconceptions. We are not selling anything, so there’s no “business relationship” to establish.
A lot of people hear or read something; for example, they may learn that debt collectors are supposed to call only during certain hours. And then they either simply assume that that also applies to opinion surveys, or else they don’t bother to make a distinction at all. And I realize that a lot of you don’t make a distinction–but the law does.
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AND, upon re-reading that OP, I even note that Cervaise directly called Claudia VonL the c-word FOUR times! And even got praised for it by Lynn Bodoni, moderator emeritus.
We would simply toss your number back into the rotation, just on the off chance that somebody else would have better luck with you.
<moderating> I’m just gonna move this thread into the Pit, because that’s where it belongs, and that’s where it’s headed anyway. Yeah, I don’t do this sort of thing often, but this is EXACTLY why we made the Pit.</moderating>
Why in the world would I be ashamed? Research is important. (And yes, I’m serious.)
About “harassment”–#1, people choose to have a phone in their house/on their person. #2, they choose to answer it. It’s “harassment” that they voluntarily consent to.
Hey drewtwo99 look! It’s in the Pit now! Now you can say half the things you want to say!
Bring it on! Let fly!
YES! Now I can speak my mind. In fact,I’ll just link to my post from the minirants page.
Flyer, I await your response with bated breath.
Oh! Kind of like how if a woman wears a short skirt, she’s just consenting to be sexually harassed? Or if I answer my door and a burglar attacks me, I was asking for it!
I gotcha! Fucking loser.
You bit! You took the bait! You’ve channeled Claudia vonL! We just had FOUR posts referring to the OP by Cervaise, and you’ve walked right in and stepped in it!
Ahh, the brink of the turn of the century. Those were heady days, my friends, and the internet was a rootin’-tootin’ free-for-all, such as the world had not seen since the days of Deadwood, and may never see again.
That’s an interesting point. There are times (most times, actually) when I couldn’t tell you the number of questions to save my life. Sometimes the survey software will have literally one question per screen. Sometimes there are 6 or 7 questions (or sub-questions) per screen. And some surveys don’t even number the questions–they name them! For instance, the question “Are you registered to vote?” might be named “Voter.”
Plus, some people answer each question in rapid-fire order, whereas other people pause to think 10-20 seconds for each and every question. So I might know how long I want the survey to take, but I don’t know how long it will actually take.
Also, the responses we might give might not match up with your scripted response requirements, thus causing even further delays!
Delightful!
Whoa, the deja vu is thick upon the ground today. From the cited thread, post #1:
Ah, but things were different back then! Good times!
No, they don’t. I did not get a telephone line in order to be bothered by assholes like you (this is the Pit, so I can call it like it is).
So after being instructed not to call, you keep calling. How is this not offensive?
So because you are not selling anything, I’m supposed to accept your intrusion? At my cost?
But we don’t. No call means NO CALL. It doesn’t mean no call EXCEPT for worthy causes like pleadings from candidates or charities, it means NO FUCKING CALLS.
At that is why you will waste your time and money calling me, because you will never, ever get an answer. And if you trick me into picking up the phone for a survey, I can guarantee my responses will make no sense at all and waste your time even more.
And this is why surveys are meaningless.
GOD you’re a piece of shit Flyer.