In a message dated 3/5/2000 7:21:36 AM Eastern Standard Time,
philv@pclink.com writes:
<< I act interested and then tell the telemarketers to hold on while I get a
pen.
I get a pen, and then go about doing whatever it was that I was doing when
the
phone rang. (OK, so sometimes I don't get a pen.) Once I went to hang up a
while later and realized the idiot what still on the line waiting. I told
her
that she should call back if she ever wanted me to waste some more of her
time. >>
I have thought about doing that but then I realize that these are just kids
or needy housewives whom these telemarketing scum hire for pennies, telling
them they will get a "commission" for all their sales. So I just politely
cut them off with a "I'm not interested". If there were a way to cut into
the telemarketing execs pockets for interrupting my dinner I would do it. I
bet those kids have to take a lot of crap for their buck. 8^)
--David C.
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