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next time you recieve a call from a telemarketer... how about we turn the tables on them!

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It's not the worker's fault that telemarketing is such a pain. Be nice to the people. Just say you aren't interested and hang up.
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It's not the worker's fault that telemarketing is such a pain. Be nice to the people. Just say you aren't interested and hang up.
sour-puss i think it'd be fun to try and turn it around.
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Fun for you, absolutely. But not so much for the person who needs the job to feed their children or to put themselves through college. It's a crappy job to begin with, people shouldnt be actively trying to make it worse.
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Default Re: turn it around on telemarketers!

how is it making it worse? all you would be doing by turning it around is making their call longer, and in fact i used to work at a collections agency you get credit's and bonus's for longer calls... of course it could all depend on the department your in, if they are just advertising something it would be the more calls you make per house to = a bonus... or if your trying to sale something the longer your on the line might mean the more your selling... and who knows from starting a conversation like this you might end up with a new pen pal
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how is it making it worse? all you would be doing by turning it around is making their call longer, and in fact i used to work at a collections agency you get credit's and bonus's for longer calls... of course it could all depend on the department your in, if they are just advertising something it would be the more calls you make per house to = a bonus... or if your trying to sale something the longer your on the line might mean the more your selling... and who knows from starting a conversation like this you might end up with a new pen pal
For some places longer calls are good. Most I've seen work off commission and wasting time on one person who just wants to kill time is preventing them from talking with people who could actually earn them some money
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For some places longer calls are good. Most I've seen work off commission and wasting time on one person who just wants to kill time is preventing them from talking with people who could actually earn them some money
i see your point, guess it would all depend on the company and department your in... however i could see some radio host or something do this would be a funny skit.
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Yeah, telemarketing is a tough job. Though this one guy, it was hilarious, he convinced the telemarketer that he was a policeman at the scene of the murder of the guy the worker was trying to reach. He then made the guy think he suspected him in the murder and asked if he was the deceased's gay lover. I can't remember where that is - somewhere on the web, but it's good. It's good.
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Yeah, telemarketing is a tough job. Though this one guy, it was hilarious, he convinced the telemarketer that he was a policeman at the scene of the murder of the guy the worker was trying to reach. He then made the guy think he suspected him in the murder and asked if he was the deceased's gay lover. I can't remember where that is - somewhere on the web, but it's good. It's good.
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i see your point, guess it would all depend on the company and department your in... however i could see some radio host or something do this would be a funny skit.
Yea i can see a radio host doing this, most likely an immature one with little respect for other people. If they were somehow compensating the people they did it to , that's different.
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