Any telemarketers in the house?

[JVS]

Do you like doing it or not?

[Delarage]

1. Not a telemarketer, but

I called lots and lots of Pennsylvanians on election day 2004. I felt like a major pain in the ass, but I had to do it. I had to keep busy or else I would have had a nervous breakdown.

I just visualized the people being as angry as I am when people bug me (especially the Republicans I had to call, which I'm not sure why I had to call) and it made me uncomfortable.

[Zuni]

2. I have a bone to pick.....

[JVS]

3. What's your fucking bone?

[Zuni]

5. that time you interrupted my dinner

2 nights in a row, that sucked and could you please stop calling my office---I am busy doing nothing and often am interupted by telemarketers

That is all

[JVS]

6. I'll call until I get the maximum donation beeyotch!

[Zuni]

7. actually, when I was 17 or 18 I telemarketed for a summer

I wouldn't wish it on anyone. The rudeness and hate of people like myself is all too much to bear for a sensitive young man :cry:

[JVS]

8. I don't give a shit about the rudeness.

Just hang up or let me do my spiel through so the supervisors don't get on my ass. The occasional donation would be good too

[tedoll78]

4. Not quite.

But I used to be a polltaker for the Gallup Organization. It was incredibly boring, demanding work, and I quit in less than 6 months. Their quotas were too high for my paltry talent (x completed surveys per hour). As a caller, I ran into tons of answering machines, answering services, and people who could not understand the legal difference between phone solicitors and social researchers (re: do not call lists)..