Blow a whistle in their ear

Yup, that is what I started doing. I have reported them, politely asked them to stop calling, demanded to be taken off lists, signed up for the do not call list many times, and it has gotten worse.

I am now blowing whistles in their ears. I feel bad, but maybe they will get the message!

Get a whistle and take matters into your own hands!!!

LOL!! I feel like I am at war with these fools!

I recently started working as a "phone operator" for a charity. Yes, despite my illusive job title I am one of those telemarketers you dread. However I am grateful for this job. It's close to where I live, it's close to my uni and I am trying to help people who are seriously disadvantaged. I understand the frustration, believe me, I was a receptionist before this job, so I will give you this piece of advice.. JUST SAY YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED AND HANG UP..We won't call you back again! I had a whistle blown in my ear today. My ear is still sore and ringing. I am just another person trying to get by. I am a tax payer.. I also know where you live, what your phone number is and am very tempted to press charges against you. It really does do damage and is an assault. I do understand that there are millions of these companies and that they are all trying to call you but unless we establish a fair, moneyless, global resourse based economy, you will not be able to stop these people from doing their jobs.

Recently I posted a link to a news article about a German woman who was prosecuted for blowing a whistle into the phone when a telemarketer called.

Every time I see a "whistle/horn" blowing post I shake my head in disbelief at the unending supply of childish nitwits who think this is acceptable behavior, let alone a "good idea".

For those among the noisemaker contingent who were not raised by wolves, think back to your childhood.  Somewhere among those dim memories you should find the words of a simple aphorism - "Two wrongs don't make a right".

BTW - here is the article: <http://www.thelocal.de/society/20120522-42685.html>

Sally,

Legitimate charities do not cold call for donations.  Unfortunately, some formerly legitimate charities have been hijacked by pocket lining crooks.  I'd love to know who you are working for, but understand that you are unlikely to feel comfortable sharing that info.  Here is a great site for finding out what your "charity" is really doing with that money: <http://charitynavigator.org/>

I'm betting that a lot more of the money you are raising is going in to someone's pocket than you might wish to believe.

Incidentally, a well known national charity whose organization I once belonged to started cold calling people.  This spurred me to do some investigation, and I was horrified to realize that over 30% of the money being raised was going into the pockets of top managers and their cronies.  Naturally, I no longer support this organization.  They are still the "leading charity" for their stated cause.

Millions of these companies? Millions of what companies? Charity?

If there were millions of these companies, each and everyone in the U.S would be getting calls. Nobody likes telemarketing due to the fact that it has been hijacked by all sorts of frauds.

If you want to help people, its better to pay them direct than route money through a third party telemarketing or whatever group. Now thats what I call real charity. If you are a "real" non-profit organization that is there to help the disadvantaged, you are truly helping them without keeping any of the money that you collect from people.

So it's all about you, whether we like it or not, and you intended to plague us with your self-serving pleas for "people in need"  until we assume our proper place in life as your personal ATM machines.   Let's make one thing clear: you are not doing useful work, you are begging for money.   The fact that you sit in an office and collect a pay check simply means you are diverting money from the people you claim to help and keep it for yourself.   As for your assurance that if we "just say no," you won't call back, that's a total LIE!   No so-called charity I ever said "no, stop calling" to ever stopped calling back.   The BEST I ever got was a pause of a few months before they started calling again--and that was St. Judes, a supposedly legitimate charity, not the far more common "sound alike" charities that are total frauds.   The fact is the only way to stop the abuses, the fraud and get money to real charities, is to put people like you out of business.    You ARE the problem.

Sally,  If you were a receptionist before the job you have now, you know perfectly good and well that to say you're not interested and hanging up does no good.  YOU may not call back, but you know that everybody else does.  I am a receptionist where I work answering about 150 - 200 calls a day. In any given day I get any where from 8 - 12 telemarketing calls from the same callers week after week and no matter how much I, or the exec admin asst, tells the callers the CEO, CFO, IT, or anyone else for that matter, is not interested nor will they ever be, the same people still continually call.  These people are relentless.  They hang up before you get a chance to tell them not to call back so that they have an excuse to do so.  It has gotten to the point where the IT manager will not answer his extension because he gets so many calls that if he answered them all, he wouldn't have time to do anything else.

You say you are just another person trying to get by, well so is the person you are calling.  Its possible they live paycheck to paycheck and have no extra money to give to your "charity" but your floor managers probably think they are lying when they cry poor and so you are told to keep calling them back.

And, it is just as bad with the political calls.  My mother has told one particular political "charity" to stop calling so many times she even threatened to change her political affiliation.  Did it help? No.  They continue to call and call.  She has to screen her calls and in order for me to not have to talk into her machine, I end up calling her after 9pm.

I'm sorry you got a whistle blown in your ear; I'm sorry you suffered damage for it.  If you really feel the need to press charges against the person who did that is your right because as you said it was assault.  But unless the call was recorded, you will have no proof they did it.

Good luck to you.
     Peace.

Charity is not a business. Business is where people sell products and make money. Charity is where the disadvantaged and helpless people/evironment that needs financial or any other help in order to survive receives funds from people who donate.

Then you're one of the rare few that will take my name off your call list.  Most of them don't.  they persist and anpersist.  I am going to threaten the next telemarker with a sharp long loud blow on my whistle if they don't take my name off their list, BESIDES reporting them to both the local D.A. and the State Attorney General's office for harrassment.

I have no sympathy for you.  You called my phone uninvited.  I am on the Do Not Call list.  I don't want ANY calls from anyone whom I have not personally given my number to.  When I do business with people, I always use a fake number.  If a business calls me, they did not get my number from me.  Everyone has to make a living.  But my privacy is more important to me than your way of making a living.  I really don't care about you, or any of your colleagues.  Its simple; DON'T CALL ME and you won't get a whistle in your ear!

What else are you supposed to do if you politely have asked them to stop, are on a "do not call" list and have reported to the FCC?  They still call.

Almost every job out there can pose a danger. If you don't want to take a chance of having a whistle blown into your ear , then find a different job. Do I feel sorry for you? NO.