catwoman88
Cathlete
...SALES CALLS!!!!
I just had 3 sales/telemarketing calls right in a row, back-to-back-to-back! I had two lines ringing in at the same time and they were BOTH telemarketers, and I'd just hung up on a recorded call -- "Please hold for an important message..." *click* goes my handset.
Arrgghhh! How can anyone get any work done with all these telemarketing calls?! I've been getting them all d@mn day! And the only way to get them off the phone is to be rude and hang up, because they don't take "I'm not interested" at face value. As an experiment, I tried the "I'm not interested" approach with one caller, and had to tell them FOUR times before they finally realized I meant it. I mean, these people are already jacking up my day with their calls, they could at least respect it when I tell them I'm not interested.
And don't even get me started on bill collectors! They ask for one of my coworkers and when I ask what it's regarding, they say it's a "personal matter". Yeah, right?! I wasn't born yesterday and know what "personal matter" means. Translated: "We're calling to collect money they owe." I inevitably tell them that if it's a personal matter, they can call the person at their personal residence and not at work. If they continue to call, I get vicious with them. Let's just say they don't like it when the tables get turned on them. I don't mess around - I have no tolerance for debt collectors (goes back to the days when they called me to collect money I owed. I was working 70-80 hours a week killing myself to pay my debts rather than claim bankruptcy and these a-holes tore me apart emotionally with their bullying and insults - yes, they got "personal". So, I have no love for debt collectors). Anyhoo, they get reported to the Attorney General for harassment in Indiana, and I've reported them. I could go on with the things I do to toy with debt collectors and give them a dose of their own, but I've got to get back to work!
I just needed a few minutes to rant/vent. Maybe these annoying calls will end long enough for me to get my work done!
I just had 3 sales/telemarketing calls right in a row, back-to-back-to-back! I had two lines ringing in at the same time and they were BOTH telemarketers, and I'd just hung up on a recorded call -- "Please hold for an important message..." *click* goes my handset.
Arrgghhh! How can anyone get any work done with all these telemarketing calls?! I've been getting them all d@mn day! And the only way to get them off the phone is to be rude and hang up, because they don't take "I'm not interested" at face value. As an experiment, I tried the "I'm not interested" approach with one caller, and had to tell them FOUR times before they finally realized I meant it. I mean, these people are already jacking up my day with their calls, they could at least respect it when I tell them I'm not interested.
And don't even get me started on bill collectors! They ask for one of my coworkers and when I ask what it's regarding, they say it's a "personal matter". Yeah, right?! I wasn't born yesterday and know what "personal matter" means. Translated: "We're calling to collect money they owe." I inevitably tell them that if it's a personal matter, they can call the person at their personal residence and not at work. If they continue to call, I get vicious with them. Let's just say they don't like it when the tables get turned on them. I don't mess around - I have no tolerance for debt collectors (goes back to the days when they called me to collect money I owed. I was working 70-80 hours a week killing myself to pay my debts rather than claim bankruptcy and these a-holes tore me apart emotionally with their bullying and insults - yes, they got "personal". So, I have no love for debt collectors). Anyhoo, they get reported to the Attorney General for harassment in Indiana, and I've reported them. I could go on with the things I do to toy with debt collectors and give them a dose of their own, but I've got to get back to work!
I just needed a few minutes to rant/vent. Maybe these annoying calls will end long enough for me to get my work done!
