Fun with Telemarketers

Anybody besides me find it ironic that someone claiming to be Peter Frampton, (who has the smallest willy in rock and roll according to some of the more famous groupies of the era) is trying to call you out about unsuccessful hookups?  Sounds like the voice of experience to me.

Telemarketers are valid members of any company's sales force.  If any of you knew anything about business you would already be aware of this.  Every single company with a clue has people making outbound calls, even residential if the that's what their selling.  You're not 'hurting' the company at all by screwing with a telemarketer, you're just giving some working person a hard time to no effect.  Why don't you give the drive-thru person at McDonald's a hard time the next time they ask if you want to Super Size it?  In your minds I guess this would mean sticking it to McDonald's.  The Do Not Call List is a complete joke.  There are several ways such as going to specific web sites sponsored by companies that will automatically put you back on their call list even if you requested to be removed.  Sounds to me like a bunch of nobodies want to 'get even' with large corporations by futily giving working people like themselves the run around.

Whenever I see a telemarketer or "unknown" on caller ID. I just click the answer button on the cordless phone and set it right in front of the stereo speaker, so whether it's jazz, or classical, or dance, or rock, or TV that's on the stereo at that time, that's what the caller hears.  

Like eternal music-on-hold!  

Usually when I check back in 5-10 minutes, they've hung up and there's a dail tone or dead line on the other end.

Best thing to do when they call you at dinner is to say:

I know how important this call is to you so give my your home phone number so I can call you back at home during dinner and talk to you."

They hang up every time.

I'm 53, the head of the house. They always ask for "mr. plonker" I say "Sh*t, you must want my dad. I'll go get him". I leave the phone off the hook and go away shouting dad! Dad! decreasing the volume of my shouts the further i get from the phone. Then I "shout" in a deeper voice "who the furk is it son?" and i stomp back to the phone, breathing hard, and say "Who shall I say is calling?" They tell me and I shout their name. But by now, "dad" has gone out to the garden to start doing yard work. A very faint yell of "what the furk do they want?" then a lot of stomping back to the phone and I breathlessly ask "what is it you would like to speak to him about?"....
and on it goes..
the longest i had one waiting was 45 minutes.. i even took one of my dogs for a walk while i was looking for my dad.. the neighbors thought I had gone crazy walking down the sidewalk "shouting" dad where are you in my cordless phone.. until I explained.
the challenge is on .. can you beat 45 minutes?

I usually tell the telemarketer I'm glad he called because I am doing a survey about telemarketers and then I go on to ask them, very seriously: their level of education, their average weekly income, number of people in their family, are their parents proud of what they're doing, what their hobbies are etc.  Usually by this time they have hung up, but I have had my fun - even though my wife can't understand why I don't just hang up.

Telemarketers always calling to sell products, i turned around and asked them that i had some stuff for sale and if they would like to buy it...LOL, they all said no, my response is why would i buy something off you if you don't want to buy anything off me. Then they hang-up and don't call back...LOL

I just LOVE this!  Moonshine and Morals, LOL!!!  Love it!!!  I wish I time to have this much fun on a phone call that I never wanted!  Nice, I loved this phone call - you made my day!

The "lodge"  - the "beating", oh, yeah - that one made me fall out of my task chair!  The "mob" - LOL!  The "soup kitchens"!!!!!!!  Hilarious!

"You gotta question your OWN THING!!!!!"...  LOVED IT! LOVED IT!  LOVED IT!

"I'll be praying for you!"...  Oh, man this was TOOOO GOOD!  I wish you had stayed online with the guy for an hour!

Oh, my word - I have not laughed so hard in several years!!!!  LOL!!!

I need to go catch my breath....

Awesome!  Thanks!

My cousin, who is a devote christian, immediately asks the telemarketer are you saved?...have you taken the lord for your savior?  She says they always hang up quickly.  hee hee