# Is telemarketing the most antisocial legal profession **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 12, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667 "2003-02-12T21:38:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/1 "2003-02-12T21:38:01Z")
OK this is a Poll, but in the pit, as we all might get a bit agressive other this. Is there any other legal profession more lowly and debased than telemarketing? Cheers, Bippy ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/2 "2003-02-12T21:42:27Z")
Politician? Lawyer? OK, but I am serious about politician ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/3 "2003-02-12T21:45:07Z")
I think that Politicians are a necessity, and a small number of them really are there to help others, and not just themselves. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/4 "2003-02-12T21:45:52Z")
Stripper? ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/5 "2003-02-12T21:46:59Z")
Not that I think strippers are lowly and debased…just that many people might consider them so and speak badly about them. ---
**Author:** ![UnwrittenNocturne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/6de8d8/32.png) [@UnwrittenNocturne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UnwrittenNocturne)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/6 "2003-02-12T21:47:50Z")
Television evangelist ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/7 "2003-02-12T21:49:38Z")
Oh! I thought of another one… Used car salesman ---
**Author:** ![RangerDude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/9e8a1a/32.png) [@RangerDude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RangerDude)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/8 "2003-02-12T21:51:15Z")
Spammers. I hate the spam that fills my inbox every day. As far as I know, it’s still not illegal. Sure wish it was, though. [http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/1998/april98/netcom.htm](http://www.unt.edu/benchmarks/archives/1998/april98/netcom.htm) ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/9 "2003-02-12T21:54:43Z")
One more. (Thats it, I promise) Reality TV Show Media Whores. Especially the people who appear on shows like Who Wants to Marry a Millionare and Joe Millionare. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/10 "2003-02-12T21:58:52Z")
Strippers provide a valued entertainment service. Television evangelists, well good one, but you can change the channel easily enough. Used car salesmen, well people need to buy used cars, and someones got to sell them. Spammers, bingo, they are as bad.They don’t effect that part of the population without email addresses, which is much larger than the part of the population without phone numbers ---
**Author:** ![Trob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Trob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trob)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/11 "2003-02-12T21:59:11Z")
Now who’s the whore? Joe or the chicks? Both? And imagine the surprise on the last episode when Joe says “Psyche! I’m broke. Marry me?” ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/12 "2003-02-12T22:02:51Z")
They are “Media Whores” not regular whores. Meaning they sell themselves to be on TV. ---
**Author:** ![js\_africanus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/87869e/32.png) [@js\_africanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/js_africanus)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/13 "2003-02-12T22:03:38Z")
DEA agents & drug enforcement generally ---
**Author:** ![Tiburon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e36b37/32.png) [@Tiburon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tiburon)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/14 "2003-02-12T22:07:26Z")
Porn stars, producers, directors, etc. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/15 "2003-02-12T22:18:27Z")
DEA agents are helpful when they stop dealers in highly dangerous or contaminated drugs. Porn industry, well it is entertainment, and it is highly avoidable. Media Whores are a waste of oxygen, but people do whach them on TV so they must be providing entertainment. ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/16 "2003-02-12T22:29:13Z")
Fine - Telemarketers may annoy most of us to high-hell and back but they give old people someone to talk to and make money for their bosses. ---
**Author:** ![Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ac8455/32.png) [@Bippy\_the\_Beardless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bippy_the_Beardless)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/17 "2003-02-12T22:39:10Z")
Giving lonely people someone to talk to, yes that has value, true. But how often do they persuade the easily persuadable to buy things they don’t need or even want, I wonder? Making money for their bosses, isn’t that part of the definition what a profession is 😉 Do they generate more business than there would otherwise be, or would the business they generate simply go elsewhere if they did not exist? ---
**Author:** ![In\_Conceivable](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/4bbf92/32.png) [@In\_Conceivable](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/In_Conceivable)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/18 "2003-02-12T22:44:47Z")
How often do they persuade people into buying things they really need but just didn’t know they needed? 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Gozu\_Tashoya](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7993a0/32.png) [@Gozu\_Tashoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gozu_Tashoya)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/19 "2003-02-12T23:07:48Z")
The guys handing out the smut/escort service flyers down on the Strip in Vegas? ---
**Author:** ![dietrologia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@dietrologia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dietrologia)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2003, 11:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/is-telemarketing-the-most-antisocial-legal-profession/154667/20 "2003-02-12T23:19:28Z")
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