Telemarketing

[lillibet]

I just got a great call from my best friend, who announced "I just had the best telemarketing experience

Comments

[rmd]

in fact, that is excellent as telemarketing experiences go. :-)

[dpolicar]

indeed excellent.

[orbitalmechanic]

I've noticed that capitalism always overcomes morals, and that's not always a bad thing.

[ayelle]

So if she has a Southern accent, that automatically means that one of her moral values is that gay marriage is wrong? She couldn't have just been, say, slightly surprised for a moment to hear a man say he was married to a man?

[orbitalmechanic]

Eh, I meant it more as a general comment that no matter what you think about the situation, salesmanship overcomes the personal reaction. For most people gay marriage comes out as a moral issue, whether it's framed in terms of traditionalist/conservative values or of social justice. I don't think anyone in the US today has no reaction, you know? So the smoothness, that's what's unnatural and, in this case, fabulous.

Another example: if a man goes to an expensive or professional or trendy enough makeup store and looks like he's going to pay, he can probably get a makeover from someone who thinks drag queens are scary and weird. It's kind of what the urban world is all about.

[ayelle]

Ahhh, I gotcha. Sorry I jumped the gun there -- I'm a little sensitive about that stereotype. But that makes sense.

[gilana]

That's fabulous! Did he mention what she was selling?

[hammercock]

Hee! Excellent.