What a jerk...

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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    dbh wrote:
    Sometimes I'll turn it around on a telemarketer...after he/she goes thru their schpeil, I'll say "I'll consider it if you'll buy a magazine subscription for my son's fund raiser." That usually throws them off guard, and it's kinda funny! :D

    My sister-in-law hates telemarketers...when they ask if she is available, she'll say "I'm sorry, but (her name) just passed away, please don't call here again." :eek:

    It kind of makes me think of that one seinfeld episode when he asked for the telemarketers home number...lol
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  • eMMI
    eMMI Posts: 6,262
    dbh wrote:
    Sometimes I'll turn it around on a telemarketer...after he/she goes thru their schpeil, I'll say "I'll consider it if you'll buy a magazine subscription for my son's fund raiser." That usually throws them off guard, and it's kinda funny! :D

    that's pretty funny. I've worked as a telemarketer and it can be a pain when the people you call try to "outwit" you or something. it's always the same jokes and stuff. :rolleyes: and some people get so unbelievably smug when they think they've really baffled you by being rude or something.

    pissed me off no end.
    dbh wrote:
    My sister-in-law hates telemarketers...when they ask if she is available, she'll say "I'm sorry, but (her name) just passed away, please don't call here again." :eek:


    but that! that is really focking mean! :eek: two times I called someone and the person had died. one time it was really recent and the person who picked up the phone was the guys widow.

    I mean, no offence to your sis-in-law, but as an ex-telemarketer, I see their side of it and that really sucks. :o
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  • dbh
    dbh Posts: 156
    libragirl wrote:
    It kind of makes me think of that one seinfeld episode when he asked for the telemarketers home number...lol
    ha ha ha...yeah, I remember that one :D
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  • dbh
    dbh Posts: 156
    eMMI wrote:
    but that! that is really focking mean! :eek: two times I called someone and the person had died. one time it was really recent and the person who picked up the phone was the guys widow.

    I mean, no offence to your sis-in-law, but as an ex-telemarketer, I see their side of it and that really sucks. :o
    I agree! I told her that it was pretty cruel to do that, but she was like "Eh, whatever" She's just like that.
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  • InHiding19
    InHiding19 Posts: 2,385
    you should have told him to fuck off first
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Oxxys wrote:
    you should have told him to fuck off first

    oh boy did I want to....but being at work and around other people I couldn't.
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  • you are
    you are Posts: 1,651
    libragirl wrote:
    I work at a nonprofit as an admin assistant. A part of my job is answering, screening and routing calls to the staff. Well anyway I get this sales call today, I knew it was unsolicted. There is music blasting in the background and I couldn't hear them when they said the name of the company they were calling from. So he gets all snotty and repeats the name with an attitude. So I asked him why he was calling. So he said I don't understand these questions....

    it's called

    DOING MY JOB!

    I friggin hung up on him, I can't believe I did that but I didn't feel like dealing with him.

    Sorry...this is a stupid thread..I was just venting.

    no, i don't think it's stupid. you're the gate keeper and if he wants to talk to someone then he needs to be more polite. i have to cover the front desk sometimes too, sometimes people don't realize what you have to put up with in that position.
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  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    you are wrote:
    sometimes people don't realize what you have to put up with in that position.

    very true. Some people at my job thing answering the phones? No biggie...
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  • genie
    genie Posts: 2,222
    libragirl wrote:
    I work at a nonprofit as an admin assistant. A part of my job is answering, screening and routing calls to the staff. Well anyway I get this sales call today, I knew it was unsolicted. There is music blasting in the background and I couldn't hear them when they said the name of the company they were calling from. So he gets all snotty and repeats the name with an attitude. So I asked him why he was calling. So he said I don't understand these questions....

    it's called

    DOING MY JOB!

    I friggin hung up on him, I can't believe I did that but I didn't feel like dealing with him.

    Sorry...this is a stupid thread..I was just venting.

    ah, don't worry he is fucking stupid for thinking that your questions are irrelevant as an administrator you need to know who it is and where they are from
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    genie wrote:
    ah, don't worry he is fucking stupid for thinking that your questions are irrelevant as an administrator you need to know who it is and where they are from

    I know! He hasn't called back to my knowledge.
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  • Trailer
    Trailer Posts: 1,431
    cutback wrote:
    got a telemarking call once....the guy started his spiel and i said "not interested. thanks" and hung up


    guy called me back and cussed me out and hung up :eek: :D

    A few years ago.. when I had a land line phone.. I got a call from a telemarketer and I hung up on him. Then he immediately called back. I saw the same number on my caller id so I didn't answer. He then proceeded to leave a 5 minute message of him just blowing into the phone!:D It was one of those answering machines where you can hear the message as they're giving it... so my friends and I were sitting around laughing our asses off!! We couldn't believe how good his lung power was... he barely took any breaths!!
    Whoa, chill bro... you know you can't raise your voice like that when the lion's here.
  • libragirl
    libragirl Posts: 4,632
    Trailer wrote:
    A few years ago.. when I had a land line phone.. I got a call from a telemarketer and I hung up on him. Then he immediately called back. I saw the same number on my caller id so I didn't answer. He then proceeded to leave a 5 minute message of him just blowing into the phone!:D It was one of those answering machines where you can hear the message as they're giving it... so my friends and I were sitting around laughing our asses off!! We couldn't believe how good his lung power was... he barely took any breaths!!

    wow...that is weird.
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