Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site ut-sally.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!seismo!hao!kpno!ut-sally!riddle
From: riddle@ut-sally.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.flame
Subject: Re: Telephone solicitors
Message-ID: <173@ut-sally.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 25-Aug-83 11:05:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: ut-sally.173
Posted: Thu Aug 25 11:05:22 1983
Date-Received: Sat, 27-Aug-83 18:25:51 EDT
Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas
Lines: 12


     A lot of the recent flame concerning telephone soliciting was well taken,
but I wanted to point out one small thing: before you start flaming the tele-
phone solicitors themselves, remember that a lot of them are extremely over-
worked, underpaid slobs who work under sweat-shop-like conditions because they
aren't qualified to do anything else.  The people who deserve your rage are
often not the ones who actually dial your number and wake you up, but the ass-
holes who hire them to do it.  This was brought home to me a couple of years
back when I learned that an acquaintance of mine was working his way through
a CS degree as a phone solicitor even though he despised the work and every-
thing about it.  He happened to be blind.