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finish eating whatever the fuck is in your mouth before you dial! and don't continue to put stuff in there while we talk. gah!

YES I agree!! Although I do the opposite when a telemarketer calls. I make sure my mouth is full!! Or I drink something...

(chomp chomp slurp gulp) :corn: ok, I'll stop calling you when I'm eating (slurp chomp gulp snort) :corn:

I find "are you eating or giving a blow job" quite an effective mouth emptier. Especially when it's my children calling. :)

Until the day when you get back the reply, "Mmm Mmnnn mn Mmuuhhh Mmuhhhh!"

I ALWAYS tell the caller to call back when they are done eating and then I hang up before they can reply.

Well I'm eating right now, so you won't be getting a call from me, sir.

Thanks for that. it had occured to me shortly after i posted this thread that i might get a string of prank, food stuffed calls from those who know where i work. my ext is 2308, btw.....just so no one calls the operator and asks to speak to 'lumberjim'

Should I call you Al?

Wouldn't most of us just call and ask to talk to Jinx' husband?

Especially if it's her son. Not that there's anything wrong with that...:p

I used to work on the phone... you people have NO IDEA.

Why don't people just hang-up on telemarketers? If you don't like them, don't like talking to them, just hang-up... it hurts my damn head!
My Dad: "Who was that?"
Me" "Telemarketer"
"You didn't say anything, you just hung-up"
"Yeah? I don't like talking to telemarketers, don't think it should be legal. Got nothing to say."
"But, but... you just hung-up"
"...aaannnnd?"
"I could never do that"

Then I have a tiny aneurysm.

I hear ya rk.

When I was a student I used to do market research by phone -I'd rather people just hung up if they're not interested. I got paid by the hour not the survey, but the more I got done, the more likely I was to get more work. You're not interested then I'm not interested lets hang up and move on. Since doing that i'm more likely to do a phone interview, but if you're selling something, I'm just hanging up. We don't really get any sales calls since we went on the do not call list. We're ex-directory too, although by accident rather than choice!

These people are just trying to make a living - annoyingly, I grant you. I listen, say "no, thank you", they usually try to overcome an objection, I say "no, thank you. Goodbye", and that's that. Why be mean or rude?

When the phone companies were all competing for business, I would always embellish my existing plan, and the knuckleheads would come up with some outrageous counter-offer. I got my phone bill reduced by about 70% over 3 months, just by taking the next best offer that came down the road. :p

Oh, and I once was solicited to buy lightbulbs. I lied that I was going into the service the very next day. The sales person recommended that I buy some for my parents. I lied, telling her that I was going into the military because my parents died in a tragic car accident. Her response was "oh....goodbye"

That's like the reaction from Jehovah's Witnesses: just tell them you're catholic, true or not. They leave skid marks trying to get off your porch. :p

YYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWW!


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and that's not mean?

If you're trying to make a living selling stuff on the phone throught cold calling and your feelings are hurt when people just hang up, then it's not the job for you.

You know who is REALLY at fault and who pisses me off A LOT... anyone who buys from telemarketers.
They are BAD PEOPLE!!!!!!
I may have to rethink my position on the existence of evil and bad people now.
I am serious about telemarketing being illegal, also, I am on every no-call list out there.
Worked for a while, about two months ago I started getting them again... something I should know?

Another thing, I don't talk to machines, no I will not "hold for your important message".
I really pissed-off a medical business with that recently.
"We have been trying to get in touch with you for six months".
I told them I have not heard from them at all. She said that I have been hanging up on them, so I told her that I hang-up on any calls that come-up with all zeros, private on my caller ID (they don't get to leave messages if they are too sleazy and hide) and I hang-up on machines. If you want to talk to me, you will call me.
For some reason she took it personally... makes no sense to me. I was very polite the whole time & did not use the word sleazy, just meant it.
Why would it be?
However, I still think just disconnecting is the way to go.

My ex used to call them out if they were rude , then they would call him an ass and he couldn't retaliate because there was no number. THAT should be illegal.

Right out of college I worked for a now mostly defunct photo place where I had to call people. I almost threw up every night before I went to work. I hated it.

I don't have the patience for phones at all!

A couple of years ago I came up with the perfect response to both Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons:

"I'm sorry, but my husband makes all the religious decisions for the family."

If you say it with just the right amount of innocent cluelessness, they can't possibly respond, because they both believe that's the way it should be. Sometimes they ask when he'll be home, but once I know what they look like I don't answer the door again.

Shawnee, I do the same, "No thanks" *standard objective overcoming response from JW (Our Mormons usually just leave, they are pretty polite here)* "Wow, you are really pretty rude huh?".
They get a shocked look on their face then leave in haste.

I also feel door to door solicitation should be illegal. I am disabled and it is often amazingly painful for me to try to answer the door.
Secondly, I worked nights for many, many years... you don't even want to begin to get me started on that one, especially during a shift change.
Yes, one unsolicited, premeditated, solicitation is harassment.

I consider it my civic duty to keep telemarketers and other solicitors on-the-line as long as I can stand it. Then they have just that much less time to annoy my neighbors.

Also, I once used a call to test the range on my cordless phone... half the block down the street before they started to break-up!

I wonder how it would go if a bloke tried this line.
This is why I don't use cordless phones. Anyone with the right equipment can hear you quite clearly for a similar distance.

Luckily barefoot doesn't normally discuss her clandestine espionage activities on the phone, nor her Witness Protection Program status. :rolleyes:

You don't even need similar equipment - any baby monitor will do.

Nope. Just funny.

Not to her. Which equals mean. If you're gonna preach, at least practice it. :rolleyes:

Okay - you got me. Once, in 1983, I was mean to a telemarketer. I thought I was having some fun at an annoying telemarketer's expense, and everybody I've ever shared that story with has laughed. Alas, I find that I've been mean. Please forgive me. I've changed - I swear it!

Its amazing what you can pick up on those things!!

Actually, the buzz lightyear walkie talkie thingies pick up everything as well.

:D ok

I used to hang up on market researchers before I was one -I thought they were just lying telemarketers. But it was the MR gig that taught me to hang up on telemarketers without feeling bad -you called them, you don't know them, they don't want to know you -let's move on to something that might be more profitable, save everybody's time.

My fillings are even better -I can hear my neighbors having sex in my head....:3_eyes:

Elspode's patented method for making phone solicitors hang up on *you*:

"Hello?"

"Hello, Mr Chambers! Bob with Window Pros, here. Say, I'm calling you today because you requested information on our products at the Home Show."

"Bob, that's great! Yeah, I need all new windows, siding, a sun room and awnings!"

"Well, fine, Mr Chambers. Now, when can I call on you to look at your home."

"How about tomorrow evening Bob, say, about 6:00? I should be home from my bankruptcy hearing by then."

Click.

Does anyone else here do the thing with junk mail where you mail it to each other so it costs them money?

not worth my time.

Just mailing it back will cost them 50 or 60 cents....plus what it cost to mail it out to you the first time. ;)

At the roofing company I used to work for, we put sheets of thin flat lead into the prepaid return envelopes that came with junk mail. That way, they got hit with overweight charges, too.

I especially like mailing back things that don't make sense, like recipes for tuna noodle casserole or coupons from other junk mail packets. Sometimes I mail back a note saying "Help, I'm being held by Chechen rebels in Florida". And sometimes I just write "I forgive you for all you have done to me" with no further explanation. During the election season I would mail back things to the Republican National Committee with stuff supporting Democrats and vice versa for the Democratic committee.

My wife says it's stupid but I think everyone wants to believe their job has a purpose even if it is just opening mail and I also believe that everyone likes to get something especially for them in the mail:D

Regarding those annoying telemarketing calls. We still get quite a few for my wife's late first husband who died 11 years ago (shows how out of date their call lists are). When the ask for Rex, I usually fake a tearful voice and say, "Oh, I'm sorry but he's been dead since 1996". Usually the say they are so sorry and hang up but the guys at the group trying to sell those stickers for the local sherriff's dept. don't get fazed, they just keep going like I said nothing. :mad:

I get junk mail for my ex wife, from whom I've been legally divorced, including her name change, for over twelve years. I even get it here at my new address.

The real kicker? I get junk mail for her, here at my new address...in her current married name, Clampitt.

Anybody able to figure out how the fuck *that* happens?

Probably when she changed her name with one or two accounts, word went out to the 3 credit centers and they spread the word to every file she was ever in. Then when you changed your address the big 3 changed it for every listing with that address.

How's that for a wildass guess.:lol:

But...but...why associate her with me at all? Our mutual debts were paid long ago. Are they keeping our names attached to each other on the wild off chance that one of us might want to pay the other's bills for old time's sake or something?

It's not that she's associated with you Els, the chain probably goes something like this:

BettyLou Elspode lives in house A.
BettyLou Elspode has changed her name to BettyLou Clampitt.
The address for House A got forwarded to House B.

They just never got word that she left House A, is all.

On one of my credit reports, I'm listed as currently living at a place I actually lived at about 7 years ago... but my current address IS listed, as an "old" address. My husband gets junk mail for an employer he had about 10 years ago, and it has followed him through three address changes already. Data entry on these things is haphazard at best, and junk mail senders will still pay a certain amount even for mailing lists where half of the addresses are probably wrong.

Clodfobble's done a better job of what I was trying to say. The name is tied to the address, even when no longer tied to the ex-spouse.

Maybe the people that glean this info for mailing lists boost their totals by adding different combos of the same information. That way they could claim honest mistake. OK, that's pretty far fetched, isn't it.:o




Spellchecker tried to change Clodfobble to bloodmobile.

I wonder which one is written more frequently? :eyebrow: