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Telemarketers: villains or victims?

Started by Martinus, May 02, 2012, 10:47:50 AM

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Razgovory

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 05:58:57 PM
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.

They do in India.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Admiral Yi


Razgovory

I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Darth Wagtaros

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:03:39 PM
Quote from: Razgovory on May 02, 2012, 06:22:46 PM
They do in India.

That's IT help and customer service.
IT Help my ass. I fucking hate doing business with any company that outsources like that.
PDH!

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on May 02, 2012, 07:24:09 PM
IT Help my ass. I fucking hate doing business with any company that outsources like that.

I've generally had good experience with dotheads.  The one time I called Flipistan was very frustrating.  They clearly weren't a colony long enough to do phone work.

Ed Anger

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:26:37 PM
Quote from: Darth Wagtaros on May 02, 2012, 07:24:09 PM
IT Help my ass. I fucking hate doing business with any company that outsources like that.

I've generally had good experience with dotheads.  The one time I called Flipistan was very frustrating.  They clearly weren't a colony long enough to do phone work.

Flips are monkeys with rudimentary verbal skills.
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

Admiral Yi

Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 07:39:58 PM
Flips are monkeys with rudimentary verbal skills.

Hey Sally Sensitive, you know we have a half Flip poster, right?  :secret:

Ed Anger

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:43:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 07:39:58 PM
Flips are monkeys with rudimentary verbal skills.

Hey Sally Sensitive, you know we have a half Flip poster, right?  :secret:

I know.  :secret:
Stay Alive...Let the Man Drive

katmai

Quote from: Admiral Yi on May 02, 2012, 07:43:08 PM
Quote from: Ed Anger on May 02, 2012, 07:39:58 PM
Flips are monkeys with rudimentary verbal skills.

Hey Sally Sensitive, you know we have a half Flip poster, right?  :secret:

We have a lot of halfs of something or other around here.
Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life, son

Ed Anger

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Eddie Teach

To sleep, perchance to dream. But in that sleep of death, what dreams may come?

Razgovory

Poor Teach.  He never fit in.  Not even at home.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017

Barrister

I'm with Yi.  It may not be the worst job in the world, but it's close.

I'm polite but firm with telemarketers.  "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in your service.  Good bye."  If they keep talking after that point they do get hung up on.  But no use to go out of your way to be abusive.
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MadImmortalMan

Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 09:41:19 PM
I'm with Yi.  It may not be the worst job in the world, but it's close.

Door to door Kirby salesmen. Goddamn you Warren Buffet.

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Razgovory

Quote from: Barrister on May 02, 2012, 09:41:19 PM
I'm with Yi.  It may not be the worst job in the world, but it's close.

I'm polite but firm with telemarketers.  "I'm sorry, I'm not interested in your service.  Good bye."  If they keep talking after that point they do get hung up on.  But no use to go out of your way to be abusive.

I wasn't abusive.  I treated them as well as the average Languish poster.
I've given it serious thought. I must scorn the ways of my family, and seek a Japanese woman to yield me my progeny. He shall live in the lands of the east, and be well tutored in his sacred trust to weave the best traditions of Japan and the Sacred South together, until such time as he (or, indeed his house, which will periodically require infusion of both Southern and Japanese bloodlines of note) can deliver to the South it's independence, either in this world or in space.  -Lettow April of 2011

Raz is right. -MadImmortalMan March of 2017