Telemarketers: villains or victims?

[Martinus]

What is your attitude to telemarketers, especially the ones that do not take no for an answer.

Should they be pitied, or fought with extreme prejudice? To what extent they can be seen as simply being victims of the system, and to what extent can they find a different, less "evil" profession?

What do you think?

[Josephus]

To me they're only slightly above lawyers in most despised professions.

[Richard Hakluyt]

I don't answer the phone anymore.

[CountDeMoney]

What is your attitude to telemarketers, especially the ones that do not take no for an answer.

I just ask them, you really hate your job, don't you?

Should they be pitied, or fought with extreme prejudice? To what extent they can be seen as simply being victims of the system, and to what extent can they find a different, less "evil" profession?

Pitied.  It's not their fault they needed the job, and it was the only one they could score.  Like retail or fast food, sometimes you need to grab the job you can get.

What do you think?

I think you're a pretentious fucking faggity-ass snob, so you wouldn't know anything about the above.

[Ed Anger]

I abuse Indians.

[Razgovory]

I miss telemarketers.  They would call and I would recount them wondrous stories and amusing anecdotes.  About things like penguins and giant fans and rubber boots.  Unfortunately my dad signed up on the "No Call" list when that law was passed.  So now i tell my wonerous stories and amusing anecdotes on languish.

[CountDeMoney]

I abuse Indians.

When they say their name's Adam or Steve, I give them Vijay or Jonaranabatsiddharthapunjay.

[Ed Anger]

I abuse Indians.

When they say their name's Adam or Steve, I give them Vijay or Jonaranabatsiddharthapunjay.

I try to guess which shithole city they are in. They don't like that.

[CountDeMoney]

I try to guess which shithole city they are in. They don't like that.

No matter how thick their slurpee accent is, they insist they're in Minneapolis.   

[garbon]

I don't answer the phone anymore.

I screen all of my calls.

[sbr]

I am Debbie.

[Syt]

And it's all your fault
I screen my phone calls
No matter who calls
I gotta screen my phone calls

[KRonn]

I rarely answer the phone anymore, unless the caller ID shows someone I know. And if I answer, I usually either just hang up or tell them to take me off their list, while acknowledging that they probably can't or won't remove me. I don't really blame the caller as they're just doing the job. But I have little patience with being called and solicited, and often let them know that frustration.

[Eddie Teach]

Unfortunately, the only spam calls I get are from recordings, so there's no opportunity to abuse somebody.

[Admiral Yi]

I'm deeply sympathetic.  No little kid ever says I want to grow up and be a telemarketer.  It's the worst job in the world.