A bit too bubbly saleswoman: We just need to know you're still living in the Chicagoland area.

Me: Let me ask you a question; Are you paid on commision? or by the hour?

A bit too bubbly saleswoman:...by the hour.

Me:Great! I've got a clear conscience then!

I hang up the phone.

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This one time, at Praetor Liam camp:
It's just her job =\

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You could consider a burglar breaking into your house a job too. She's just stealing my time, if I wanted her paper I would've called HER to order it.

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Rodent King attempted to be funny by writing:
You could consider a burglar breaking into your house a job too.

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Hey we can have crime too, just so long as its organized.

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Praetor Liam had this to say about the Spice Girls:
Do you know how easy it is to say "I'm not interested" and hang up the phone?

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Must you ruin the common man's fun?

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Nekralt Avaane had this to say about Cuba:
Must you ruin the common man's fun?

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I'm sure his fun is ruined by an otherwise anonymous person in a different country.

I'm just stating my opinion.

They're being paid to talk to me. I'm doing it with no pay, PLUS it ties up my phone line (that I pay for without any help from them) when they call.

They owe me some money, but I'm willing to make it up in entertainment value sometimes.

Someday, one of them will catch me in just the wrong mood though, and I'll leave them a wreck for the rest of the day. When I'm nasty, I'm really nasty.

'Yes' *click*

See, I have two phone lines, one upstairs, one down. DSL is on the downstairs, and it doesnt have long distance. Fine with me. I'd prefer it if we just switched the DSL to the upstairs phone, and got rid of the second line charge, but then mom couldnt call me upstairs in case of an emergency. Anyway!

This is how a conversation goes:

Him: Hello, this is Verizon DSL! I'd like to offer you a limited time deal where we can give you everything you need to connect to highspeed verizon DSL at only 49.99--
Me: Highspeed DSL, eh?
Him: Yessir, Brow--
Me: So, With DSL I could talk on the phone.. and, oh, surf the web at the same time?
Him: That's right sir! And you experience no slowdown to your browsing from talking on the phone whatsoever!
Me: So, I could be playing a rousing game of BattleFeild1942 when my phone rings, causing me to lose my concentration, and have my plane slam into the ground at full speed?
Him: Umm.. well..
Me: Let me ask you. Are your billing and sales departments databases linked in any way?
Him: I wouldn't know, sir.
Me: Well, next time you pass by the suggestion box, put this in: "Perhaps we should consider linking billing and sales, since I had five calls today where I was trying to sell our product to a customer that already had it."
Him: So.. uh.. you have Verizon DSL?
Me: I wouldn't be so amused if I didnt.
Him: Well, okay sir, have a nice day!
Me, chuckling heartily: You too.

Being repetative is repetitious.

[ 10-09-2002: Message edited by: Delphi Aegis ]

I work nights, so I've only been in bed three or so hours when the phone rings at nine AM.

Me: Hello?
Them: Hello! Is the person who pays the bills home! We'd like to talk to them about our new internet bill paying service!
Me: <so asleep he can barely think> No.
Them: When would be a better time to reach them?
Me: After six PM.
Them: Okay! We'll call back then!

Which is all fine and dandy, except I have the SAME EXACT CONVERSATION EVERY FUCKING MORNING and every morning they promise to call back "then", yet EVERY FUCKING MORNING they call me at nine asking me when a better time to call would be.

They haven't called for a week, though, after I flipped and went postal on the poor guy who happened to do the calling that morning.

What you should do is be kind. THEY ARE HUMAN. And once you've listened to them, ask them to give you their name, their supervisor's name, and their employer's name... make a note of all this. Then have them read you their "do not call" policy.

Then ask them if they are a third party entity calling on behalf of another company. Ask them for THAT companies name, telephone number, then ask them to read that company's "do not call" policy to you.

Then ask to be put on the "Do Not Call List" for BOTH companies.

Be kind through it all. They HAVE to do as you ask. Make a note of the date along with all the contact info you got from them.

By FCC regulation they can call you ONE MORE TIME. And they WILL call you one more time. Make a note of it.

If they call you again after that, you can sue them. And most telemarketer companies will settle long before they ever go to court because it is only a $500 fine. But I bet they'd never call you again. **grins**

[ 10-09-2002: Message edited by: Woody ]

I respect that they're just trying to make ends meet, and hold no ill will towards them as people as some of the more immature people around here apparently do, but there is no excuse for invading my privacy every single morning to ask the SAME QUESTION THAT I HAVE ANSWERED EVERY MORNING BEFORE!

I don't mind listening to a telemarketers little sales pitch. I try to politely tell them no before they start it, as it's never been anything I'm interested in, but if they begin without giving me a chance I'm not rude and interupt.

But the situation where they kept asking what time to call back, and I kept telling them, and they kept calling me at the same exact time was just inexcusable.

When that guy called that ill fated day I began my tirade with, "He wasn't here at this time last week. He wasn't here yesterday. He's not here today. And he's PROBABLY not going to be here tomorrow."

But that is not going to happen. Because the computer program does not have a bypass except the do not call list.

I lasted 2 weeks in outbound calling. I am better at customer service anyways.