telemarketers – 3519 days old

[whipat]

Hysterical article by Dave Barry for the miami Herald, as soon as I get through posting, I'm on the phone

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald...ry/6934584.htm

[Case]

Heh - talk about turning the tables - reminds me of spammers getting spammed . . .

[TJM4FUN]

Well having unlimited calling from work, I tried about 20 mailboxes, all were full. isn't that a shame!!!!

Well, since it was a slow nite, I did manage to find about a dozen
mailboxes in the 121 to 132. I left the message "stop calling meeee!" then hit the # then 1 to go to another box.

Tied up the number for almost 20 minutes poking thru other numbers to find valid extensions etc.

Boy it felt good. I only wish I had thier home numbers. I think a call at 2 or 3 am is a fine thank you for their efforts.

[BobGuy]

It appears that the telemarketers plan to continue their efforts to save the planet by fighting for the right to call people who do not want to be called.

Not if millions of us call them first! Day in and day out.

tjm4fun

I just remembered, I have some phone calls to make.

[Techvillage]

Hehe serves them right.

[Darcy]

hahaha!

Many of these consumers wanted me to publish more telemarketers' numbers, including residential numbers. As one e-mailer put it: ``I think we should call them at home and try to sell them the idea of not calling people at home.''

that was great, pat; i'm still laughin'.

[floppybootstomp]

That's a cracker

I usually just tell 'em to f**k off, gives me some considerable pleasure as well. Some of the buggers even phone back, saying 'I think we were unexpectedly cut off there.'

The nerve Usually works though.

[Mad dog]

Oh that was a good read, nice to see what almost appear like a war against these telemarketers actually having an impact.

You do have to wonder though, if consumers did ever manage to shut down the telemarketers, how many people would lost their jobs? I'd imagine the number would be quite frightening.

[BitBender]

40 thousand in Omaha, Nebraska area alone, MD.

And countless thousands in India, and Mexico. Most US companies are outsourcing this activity these days, they call it Business Process Outsourcing.

Of course, they will blame it all on the president.

[Mad dog]

Holly crap thats alot of jobs. I wonder what its like in GB. Still it worries me that so many jobs are made up of marketing positions

[whipat]

maybe they will go back to spamming the snail mail..at least I would look at it.. I hang up on the telecommunicators...at one time I felt guilty about that..but not anymore..

[BitBender]

The Dem's in Nebraska are trying to get federal law imposed to save the telemarketer's 1st ammendment right to interrupt you with unsolicatated sales speak.

Maybe next, we will save the snails

[whipat]

Bits
about ready to send some Dems to the taxidermist before they save me right out of existance..

[BitBender]

Yea, they are tossid it about badly out there today, now arent they?

They had better be careful, before a Cyberdyne Systems Model 101 visits them. :grab: :nuke2:

[BitBender]

.......of telling them to feck away off

* BitBender is curious.. are there standards in wee Ireland as to "fecking off" and "fecking away off"? What is the threshold for one getting to "away off" ??