Take me off the list.
Do not call me ever again. Yeah, sure. A lot of telemarketers collect TOL numbers, along with other stuff like name, address, job title, and extract revenge later. If you have experienced a surge in calls after you told some shaggy sales wolf to ‘take you off the list’, then probably you have hurt their feelings and they are taking reparations in the form of putting you on the call list of assorted insurance, banking, financial services, aluminum siding or cell phone providers. You could also find that your doppelganger is leaving hilarious soliciting messages with Homeland security, Internal Revenue, or Bob’s wholesale bait. Many telemarketers work at more than one call center; and many call centers call for more than one corporate entity. And many telemarketers save the numbers and identity of people they despise to carry from job to job. Being downtrodden, despised, and completely unsupervised does that to you.
In other words, they’re not “Just doing they’re job,” they really are useless and annoying jerks?
Actually, most telemarketers never even see the number they’re calling. Why would they? They use automated predictive dialing systems. And they wouldn’t have time to write down a number anyway.
As for “just doing their job,” their job is to be annoying assholes, parasites sucking the blood of society.
Uh, why doesn’t everyone have their number listed with the national “Do Not Call” function? I signed up for this, I don’t know, 8-10 years ago, and telemarketing calls are a thing of my distant past.
I was a telemarketer for three days. Got paid very very well. Quit because I hated getting yelled at. The software we were using allowed us to set a call-back time. So if a person said to me “hey can call me back in an hour” I can easily set it up to put them into the list again and sure enough one hour later they would get called, usually by someone else. After the first day I started putting people who were rude to me on the callback in 5 minute list. After the third day I wrote down one number and after work I called them from a payphone and screamed curses on there answering machine. That was my last day as a telemarketer.
This is COMPLETELY true. I worked for a call center and the particular nasty individuals indeed were put on OTHER calling lists and were inundated with junk mail. goober seems to be that type 😉
when I was working 3rd shift they would call ..how are doing today ,I would say I WAS SLEEPING
yes unfortunately there are those people out there that were like that…horrible. As a supervisor, it was very hard to watch every step my entire team of 25 reps. 🙁 Its also unrealistic to have smaller teams as that runs up the cost. Either way it can happen in ANY business…just remember to keep your cool if you can wherever you are!
Ummm Goober, When I worked there I was shown the number. AS for not having the time to write it down, well there is plenty of time to write it down when you are the one that pushes a button telling the computer to make another phone call.
Isiah, and that is why we hate telemarketers… That’s pretty ridiculous to write down their phone number and call from a payphone.
It must be very satisfying to cold-call people and wake them from sleep, interrupt their meals, frighten the elderly, wake babies, interrupt important conversations, and even threaten people. I hated these vile cretins for calling while my Dad lay dying at home under the care of Hospice, or while we were engaged in intense conversation trying to save a marriage, or comforting a very sick baby. For some handicapped people, just answering the phone requires an effort. When we were stupid kids, too young to know any better, we got into trouble for making prank phone calls, but these knuckle-dragging unibrowed bottom-feeding buttplugs seem to think it’s just fine. Too bad that for many of us it’s necessary to be available to the public, but these stinking hunks of rancid puke can hide out in total anonymity, using fake names, fake numbers, and fake companies in order to scam the public. And then you tell us that after you’ve done all that, when someone asks you to not do it again, you retaliate??? Phuck you.
I solve this problem by not ever answering my phone. The people I want to talk to know how to get in touch with me.
Here in Australia, we have the “Do Not Call Registry”. You just register your phone number and 30 days later all telemarketing calls will stop. Telemarketers that breach this law face fines ranging from $110,000 to $1.1 million. I haven’t had a telemarketer call in years.
Terry, we have that here too.. problem is alot of companies are start to switch to either ‘survey’ type or they outsource to call centers out of the country… I was getting alot from this one place in Costa Rica after I sweetly asked to be removed and was subsuquently mocked by the douchebag… they called for several weeks, every day…. finally changed my voice-mail greeting to the “this line has been disconnected” message.