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Would you kill a telemarketer/phone scammer if you knew you'd get away with it?
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2020-06-30 at 8:24 PM UTCSeriously?
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2020-07-01 at 4:58 AM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 2:13 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 2:14 PM UTCI don't want to kill Octavian
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2020-07-01 at 3:51 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 4:10 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 7:25 PM UTCMy father would answer the phone and act real interested in whatever they were selling and then would claim there was someone at the door. He would tell them he would be right back and set the phone down and then get back to eating dinner with a very self-satisfied grin on his face.
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2020-07-01 at 7:26 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 7:30 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 7:31 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 My father would answer the phone and act real interested in whatever they were selling and then would claim there was someone at the door. He would tell them he would be right back and set the phone down and then get back to eating dinner with a very self-satisfied grin on his face.
It probably didn't bother them whatsoever. Those people usually have multiple lines and conversations going at the same time. They probably enjoyed the break your dad get them because it meant they had one less line to think about. -
2020-07-01 at 7:39 PM UTCAny pics
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2020-07-01 at 7:41 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 7:56 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 7:57 PM UTC
Originally posted by MexicanMasterRace It probably didn't bother them whatsoever. Those people usually have multiple lines and conversations going at the same time. They probably enjoyed the break your dad get them because it meant they had one less line to think about.
Bullshit.
I worked as a telemarketer in the evening while I was going to Tech School. You only have one line. How are you supposed to keep two conversations going at once? That is a recipe for failure. It's very difficult getting someone to talk to you on this type of call much less telling them to wait while you talk on the other line.
By the way, I was relatively successful at it. The business was located in my town and nobody wanted to deal with the locals because the other telemarketers thought they were too difficult. I would veer off script telling them that we were local and located by the Newport bridge and the Soccer Dome. That usually would keep them from hanging up on me. I, working just part time, was even awarded the "Communicator Of The Month" award once.
Once I even talked to the father of a gal who dated one of my high school classmates and told him I thought they would end up getting married. He surprised the hell out of me when he responded "Over my dead body!"
Another time I called the number of an apartment. She obviously wasn't going to buy any vinyl clad aluminum siding. But...I did get a date out of the deal as well as my horn scraped. -
2020-07-01 at 7:58 PM UTC
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2020-07-01 at 8 PM UTC
Originally posted by stl1 Bullshit.
I worked as a telemarketer in the evening while I was going to Tech School. You only have one line. How are you supposed to keep two conversations going at once? That is a recipe for failure. It's very difficult getting someone to talk to you on this type of call much less telling them to wait while you talk on the other line.
By the way, I was relatively successful at it. The business was located in my town and nobody wanted to deal with the locals because the other telemarketers thought they were too difficult. I would veer off script telling them that we were local and located by the Newport bridge and the Soccer Dome. That usually would keep them from hanging up on me. I, working just part time, was even awarded the "Communicator Of The Month" award once.
Once I even talked to the father of a gal who dated one of my high school classmates and told him I thought they would end up getting married. He surprised the hell out of me when he responded "Over my dead body!"
Another time I called the number of an apartment. She obviously wasn't going to buy any vinyl clad aluminum siding. But…I did get a date out of the deal as well as my horn scraped.
You must not have been a good telemarketer then. Most are given multiple lines. -
2020-07-01 at 8 PM UTCAt night while going to school.
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2020-07-01 at 8:29 PM UTCI did telemarketing for about 2 months when I was 16. All we did was get high as fuck and go in to our little cubicle and call people to take random surveys. We all thought it was stupid (because it was) and nobody actually gave a shit about the job.
If people put us on hold (which is extremely common by the way, its like the oldest trick in the book to "fuck with telemarketers") we would just dink around for a while. It in no way was frustrating to us.
Most of the time if people agreed to take a survey we would just ask the first few questions and then tell them that was it, and then we'd fill out the rest of the survey ourselves just guessing their answers based off the initial ones they gave. Sometimes we'd just make up all the answers for the entire survey anyway even when a person hung up on us, just so it looked like we were doing something.
Super easy job but really boring. -
2020-07-01 at 8:34 PM UTCI bet you never won the "Communicator Of The Month" award.
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2020-07-01 at 8:36 PM UTCI won it both months I worked there.
