waitresses provide a service. what exactly did you say you did again? i hope you are blessed ten thousand fold with the number of your former colleagues calling you with their noble "services".
By the way, the people who are getting put through it and just have to take it are the rest of us who work hard, taking care of homes, jobs, kids, parents, volunteering and helping out our neighbors all the while having our children's nap time, our time to talk with our spouses, precious time we are trying to spend with our kids, not to mention valuable sleep time, constantly being interrupted by those who need to get a real job. Good for you that you quit, so quit whining about the poor TM. Nobody who's "playing with them" called them first. They interrupt our lives and barge into our space. It's not the other way around. And just barging into peoples lives isn't very polite is it? So why should you or anyone else expect to be spoken to nicely by someone who you don't even know what is going on in their life at that exact moment.
By the way, I've tried being polite and had them just hang up in my face like I was the one pestering them. So maybe we aren't nice because the friggin machine calls thousands at a time and that adds up to a lot of interruptions. Do you like being interrupted constantly when you are trying to think, or crap, or eat, or spend time with people, or write emails, or pray, or whatever is you do? Think about it, maybe people aren't nice sometimes, because they CAN'T be nice anymore. They have nothing left. They have answered the phone ten times that day to get a dial tone, by the same automated calling system.
I agree you can tell something about a person by how they treat a waitress, but you forget I can tell a lot about a person by how they treat my family, namely respecting the peacefulness of our home by not barraging it with tons of unrequested phone calls.
