Telemarketers

[LordKOTL]

Has anyone else registered on th donotcall list and still recieve robocalls, or is it just me?

Not just you. I always get "The Warantee Service Center" trying to offer me a extended warrantee on my 8-year-old car.

I'm polite and decline.
I figure they hate their job more than I hate the calls.
At least their working.

Exactly.

A family member worked telemarketing through college. It's not like they like the work; in fact the work is brutal in the psychological sense. The supervisors are on everyone's ass about calling as many people and selling as many whatever to make quotas, and just about everyone on the line is hostile. The callers are basically given a list of numbers to go through and the callers are not privy to the DNC database or whatnot--they're basically given numbers, maybe a name, and a script. You do nothing but catch shit all day for essentially minimum wage--worse, if you're paid on a quota basis.

You can't "pick yourself up by your bootstraps" any more with telemarketing than you can with working fast food, but for starving college students, it can cover the bills...barely.

 

[BlackHawkPaul]

I just receive calls from Comcast asking if they can jam the big, black rubber **** deeper into my asshole (in other words--would I like to upgrade my shitty cable package and substandard internet), because the cable lobbyists are blocking fiber technology from basically rendering coaxial cable obsolete.

**** you, Comcast.

 

[Ares]

I just receive calls from Comcast asking if they can jam the big, black rubber **** deeper into my asshole (in other words--would I like to upgrade my shitty cable package and substandard internet), because the cable lobbyists are blocking fiber technology from basically rendering coaxial cable obsolete.

**** you, Comcast.

Capitalism is gr8.... when you basically don't have to compete.

 

[BringBackDitka54]

Capitalism is gr8.... when you basically don't have to compete.

That's not true capitalism then; it's crony capitalism.

 

[Wintermute]

I convince them that it was I who called them, and proceed to sell them a life insurance policy.

 

[Monk]

I try to lead them to the Lord


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[Urblock]

God hates those people.

 

[Dogstar]

I'm polite and decline.
I figure they hate their job more than I hate the calls.
At least their working.

Everybody outside of Nebraska knows that telemarketing jobs suck.

Safe to say, people that take those kind of jobs probably hate life in general.

 

[ijustposthere]

I don't pick up. Then I set the number to a silent ring tone so it never bothers me again.

 

[truthbedamned]

You ever get the ones that just launch into their stuff without giving you a chance to tell them to **** off?

I will usually give them 15 seconds or I hangup.

The charity ones where they launch into a spiel and then wind up with like "So can I put you down for 50, 100, or 200$ to support the families of fallen heroes?" piss me off.... it feels like charity bullying... YOU HAVE NO CHOICE UNLESS YOU WANT TO ADMIT YOU DONT GIVE A **** ABOUT DEAD HERO FAMILIES!!!1111

I was doing the math one day on what it would cost me, post taxes, if I gave to every person or group that begged me for money every day.

1. 50$ to homeless people every day I go downtown for work assuming ~10 people and 5$ per.
2. 10$ to charity groups that hangout on the sidewalks or in Union Station looking for donations assuming ~2 groups and 5$ per.
3. 250$ a year to charity groups calling me assuming 5 groups a year at 50$ per.
4. 50$ a month if I sign up for all the save the children, save the vets, save the whales, save the trees, save the dogs people downtown.
5. 10$ a month to various people who stand on traffic medians looking for donations.
6. 100$ a year to FB friends/family posting about needing donations for various charities.
7. W/e the **** it costs to get those dog commercials off my TV.
8. W/e the **** it costs to get those impoverished children off my TV.

Even if I did just homeless and charity groups every day downtown, that's like 300$ a week, 1200$ a month, 14,000$ a year.

Instead I've just become an asshole who ignores everyone who asks for money.

You hate dogs and kids. Wow. Don't let that get out. Could cost you votes.

 

[Novak]

I try to lead them to the Lord


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There ya go!

 

[Monk]

God hates those people.

What do you want those people you racist cracker


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[Ares]

You hate dogs and kids. Wow. Don't let that get out. Could cost you votes.

I love dogs.... I can tolerate kids.... those commercials just hurt da soul mane

 

[Urblock]

What do you want those people you racist cracker


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What?

 

[Monk]

What?

Never mind. I suck at typing


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