Not on my cell phone
I have a lot of empathy for them. Really. I did it myself for two years in college. And it's HARD! People make up excuses and lie to you and you just want to be like, "Hey, how bout you be straight with me so you don't waste my time or yours."
Yes, I'm talking about Telemarketing, though what I did was not quite as bad as selling stuff. I worked at the Western Foundation at my college and called parents and alumni to ask them for donations. Parents were particularly peeved about this. They would often say, "I'm paying how much in tuition and you have the nerve to call and ask for a donation!?!?!?!"
And those people were fine with me. They had the right to say no. I'd just hang up and call the next person. But the people who were like, "We're eating dinner right now, call back earlier." Then you call back and their kid says, "Oh, they aren't home yet." So then you call later and it's, "This is too late to call. Haven't you got any common sense?"
Come on! Just say, "I'm sorry, we're not interested." It's not that hard.
But these days, apparently, it is. You see, I've been getting AUTOMATED telemarketing calls on my cell phone, about once a week. And there's no real person that I can find. How do you tell a computer you aren't interested? I don't have a clue.
Yes, I'm talking about Telemarketing, though what I did was not quite as bad as selling stuff. I worked at the Western Foundation at my college and called parents and alumni to ask them for donations. Parents were particularly peeved about this. They would often say, "I'm paying how much in tuition and you have the nerve to call and ask for a donation!?!?!?!"
And those people were fine with me. They had the right to say no. I'd just hang up and call the next person. But the people who were like, "We're eating dinner right now, call back earlier." Then you call back and their kid says, "Oh, they aren't home yet." So then you call later and it's, "This is too late to call. Haven't you got any common sense?"
Come on! Just say, "I'm sorry, we're not interested." It's not that hard.
But these days, apparently, it is. You see, I've been getting AUTOMATED telemarketing calls on my cell phone, about once a week. And there's no real person that I can find. How do you tell a computer you aren't interested? I don't have a clue.