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From: lkk@teddy.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
Message-ID: <1468@teddy.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 21-Oct-85 12:11:57 EDT
Article-I.D.: teddy.1468
Posted: Mon Oct 21 12:11:57 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Oct-85 04:38:46 EDT
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Reply-To: lkk@teddy.UUCP (Larry K. Kolodney)
Organization: GenRad, Inc., Concord, Mass.
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Summary: 

In article <1042@mtuxo.UUCP> 45223wc@mtuxo.UUCP (w.cambre) writes:
>
>I usually sit there quietly while they go through their whole
>summary of why their product will save all humanity, then simply
>say 'Nope, I don't want it, goodbye!' and hang up.  You know these
>people are talking over the phone all night and their voices have
>to start hurting after a while.  Waste their time AND make them talk,
>now that's punishment.


I was once a telephone solicitor (actually a surveyor, but it the same idea).  
Most of the people who work at these jobs are poor or uneducated.
They make close to the minimum wage, and work under pretty lousy conditions.
They are under tremendous pressure to get sales (or surveys).

These people generally work at such places because they have to, not because
they enjoy annoying people.  Beleive me, those calls they make are hurting them
a lot more than they are hurting you.

If someone calls you up and you're not interested, please just say so
politiely.  There's really no reason to extend the suffering of these
individuals.   BEING OBNOXIOUS TO THEM WILL NOT STOP THEM FROM CALLING.  They
call you based on computerized lists of numbers.  They're certainly not going
to remember the next time who was obnoxious and who wasn't.

-- 

Sport Death,
Larry Kolodney
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