Gaeri's PSA on telemarketers

Well, most of the people your broken-life kids are calling have homes breaking down because they are having financial trouble and as a result, family and other personal problems as well.  So your broken-life young people are making money by harassing the hell out of people who are short on it.  And by the way, I woud probably classify as a disadvantaged young person, I was even homeless once, should I now call someone like myself and make them feel like sh*t?  Hey, it might give me a confidence boost.

And the people who keep calling me sound more like middle-aged women from the suburbs or outsourced reps from India.

Unfortunately this kind of stuff will keep disturbing our lives until we decide to stop buying anything over the telephone.

This "Telephone Tough Guy" has been annoying people for over 20 years and training others to do the same annoying work?  

I would like to doubt it is true.  However, I ran into a sky diving company that ran such an operation.  There was one particular guy in their phone room that could sell anything to anyone.  He sold thousands of dollars a day to individuals that represented groups.  Most of the other folks in the telephone room rarely made a sale.  After the holiday season most were fired.  In other words, they no longer had a job and they had the bad experience of being fired.  Did that make them stronger?  Certainly their confidence was shot.  The jobs were minimum wage plus commission if commissions exceeded minimum wage.

Hiring was constant.  It had to be since every month at least 10% of the telephone room staff were cut and then the larger post-holiday mass firing.

'Telephone tough guy' said: "Most telemarketers are young people who have come from broken lives"

So your trying to hire the same people that pimps try to recruit as hookers?

'Telephone tough guy' said: "The top 20% of telemarketers earn over 100 thousand anually"

I make more than that with out working!

'Telephone tough guy' said: "You will get eaten."

Bring it on, tough guy, and you will be fined out of business!

Really, all of you telemarketers should quit and get a real job.

So basically you came from a broken home, had no luck in finding a job and are now a looser who lives with his mom? No? Really? Didn't think so...so then why do you get to say that "most" telemarketers are from broken homes? I know @ the very least 10 people in the business and they are from completely happy functioning homes. And by your definition because I had trouble finding work and I come from a less then "happy" family I should be a telemarketer? I cant say...be a teacher? (Which is why I'm going to school) Telemarketers can be intrusive and very rude. Take for example how i ended up here on this site today. For the last week we have had the same "telemarketing group" calling the home. They call looking for a different person in the house each time and screwing up the name horribly. They are rude when either the person is not home or wishes not to speak with them. Just as it is their choice to call this house it is our choice to speak with them or not. No one is interested in  being shouted at. The "telemarketer" tends to only give his/her first name, ask for each person by their first name, and never stating who he/she is working for. I looked for the number and found that we are not the only household being abused. You should be ashamed of yourself for even wanting to admit online what you do for a living and being proud of it.

Gee, you're a regular Andrew Carnegie, you are.  I bet dealing crystal meth on the curb builds confidence, self-worth, and pays very well, too.  Doesn't make it right.  And your faith in your employees is... something.

So in other words, while these "young people with broken lives" should be encouraged to recognize where they went wrong, solve their problems, and learn to operate within the acceptable bounds of society, you're instead encouraging them to engage in a practice that's illegitimate and highly annoying (in the eyes of the vast majority), and in some cases illegal.

Sir, your "altruism" is inspirational.  You are truly a telemarketing saint, and obviously unmotivated by greed or self-justification.

Being from a "broken" home or any other problems you may have doesnt qualify you for any special vocation, certainly not telemarketing and it DOESN'T excuse rude behavior on the phone so I doubt Telemarket Tough Guy is really "helping" these unfortunates make six figures as he wants us to believe.

its takes a great deal of talent?? your kidding right?.. automated dialing, calling queues filled by headquarters, and sales skills that don’t even rise to the standard of a used car salesman.. You have even deluded your self into thinking that your saving people? Seriously?. In fact, I would submit that your taking advantage of them and their trust in you, as well as a their hope for something better. I can tell you right now, the people your speaking of eat no one for the very reasons you described above. And the only confidence thay gain is fleeting. Its confidence based on the fact that they are miles away and anonymous. That confidence doesn’t translate to daily life very well when there’s no phone to hide behind.

Unless for some reason your speaking specifically of yourself. In which case that means nothing because you have apparently fooled yourself with the same garbage used to fool the very employees you claim to feel such empathy for.

1. you have not been a telemarketer for 20 years, or you wouldn’t be saying some of these things. You would know the truth by now. And if not there’s a serious issue there.
2. Your are just a telemarketer and your description of the average telemarketer is apparently a cleverly disguised description of yourself...

Im guessing 20ish, no diploma, and they hard sold you on the job with the old “sky is the limit, you can make as much as you want to make, its all up to you, reps can make up to 100k there really is no limit. (yet no one can find the 100k rep).

Advise: Stick with it, it will teach you some hard lessons about seeing things for what they. It will be good for you.