Oh, please.
I took up about three minutes of her time (and, hopefully, thereby prevented at least one other victim from being called on Sunday morning). I wasn’t rude, although I could have been.
And, it’s original. Hundred percent mine. Not necessarily first-rate, but original.
So, in the spirit of the Pit and in response to your uncalled for diatribe, I hereby wish to tell you to GO FUCK YOURSELF!
Whoosh.
How is that a whoosh? That would’ve been a wonderfully frustrating capper to the conversation.
Obviously you shouldn’t compare hookers, hitmen, and drug dealers to telemarketers. :rolleyes:
It’s unfair to hookers, hitmen, and drug dealers. 
See I don’t get it either.
I thought the deal was that he was intentionally mangling her name. How would calling her by her actual name at the end of the conversation be a “frustrating capper”?
It would be the zinger comment to let her know that he was pulling her chain. Kind of like finding out that the foriegner actually is fluent in your langauge after you spend a frustrating amount of time communicating with a translation book.
Or, as in glee’s example, calling cold people.
Oh.
:smack:
I doubt it. :dubious: Few dudes notice when you use their real name. It was using the wrong name that was better. **KG ** was right.
My standard response to telemarketers is “Why are you calling me?” Blah,blah,blah,blah, blah “Who told you you could call me?” More blahs. “Do not call me again. Do you understand that?” “I said DO NOT CALL ME AGAIN.”
Nuff said.
My standard reply:
(cut in mid-spiel, don’t let them get a word in edgewise) “Sorry I’m not interested Please take me off your list BYE!” click
Boring, but effective.
If they call more than twice, I tend to recognize their voice and head them off at the pass:
“You’re going to offer me a terrific deal to switch over to AT&T! I’m still not interested BYE!” click
My standard response is “No thank you. I’m not interested”. Then I hang up straight away. Simple and quick, without being rude or wasting the telemarketer’s time. Or, far more importantly, my own time.
Do they claim that they “just spoke to [father’s name] the other day” and “he expressed interest” before you tell them he’s dead? After my grandmother died my mother got calls like that.
Yes, but your approach doesn’t stop them calling you again.
Nor, far more importantly, does it make them resign and get a proper job.
Nothing like that…they just ask to speak with him. Bellsouth is the worst for this – I offered to get a Ouija board when they called the third time in one day. I guess it’s to be expected though; his name is still on a few bills. It’s surprisingly hard to get the name on a billing account changed; the City of Raleigh, for example, wanted $50 to open a new water account in my name. (They later agreed to attach my Mom’s name to the existing account.)
It seems to. I don’t get return calls.
Why would I want them to resign? I don’t consider that the job they’re doing isn’t “a proper job”. Their job is to try to sell me something. My response is to say “no” quickly and politely.
Because the world wold be a better place if the telemarketing companies couldn’t get anyone to take the jobs. You want to sell me something, wait until I walk into your store.
I fail to see the pro-telemarketer argument here, surely Mary Anne realized that the call wasn’t going anywhere. If she didn’t realize get it by the mention of the magazine she’s an idiot. I’m surprised she lasted so long. So the OP was funny stuff.
I have lots of free time and absolutely no consideration whatsoever for the job performance of people who call me so they’re just lucky that I’m on the do not call list and that I just don’t answer my phone ever unless I know who it is. If I don’t know them, then that’s what voice mail is for.