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Make sex sounds in the background.

"Now is not a good time Mrs white is currently tied to my radiator."

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
These people are doing a job, and deserve some kind of respect. I'm pretty sure it's quicker to simply say 'no thank you' then hang up, than come up with some 'oh so' witty comeback....

I agree with the first bit, Yes they are doing a job and deserve some respect no matter how damn annoying they are, for all we know they might be unable to get any other kind of job because of some personal reasons. But that aside, the job they do does intrude into people's lives and most poeple don't want it. If I wanted new windows, I'd ring up a company and invite them round for a quotation. I don't want to be rung every three months by the same company (I know this because I worked for a windows company whilst at college) asking if i want new windows and asking question after question ignoring me whern I say "I don't want them"

You can just say no, but the majority of sales people are trained to just talk over the top of you and ignore you while trying to corner you into buying, and the majority of people (and I will include the elderly in that bracket) are too polite to just simply hang up, partly because of the fact that some companies have been known to ring back constantly to play pranks and partly because rudeness just isn't the way they work. Many of my co-workers at "Staybrite Windows" did this to people and it was SHAMEFUL and I would take no part of it and even got ridiculed for not joining in, jokes on them as the company went bust I believe.

Shadowbrand wrote:Make sex sounds in the background.

"Now is not a good time Mrs white is currently tied to my radiator."

Reminds me of a time our radiator burst upstairs and we had water leaking. A saleman happened to knock on our door as we were racing round to stop the leak and put buckets out, I answered the door and he started to do the sales talk, to-which I pointed to our ceiling and said, "nows not a good time".

Hah, try and ignore me and keep talking after that Mr Salesman!

Hanging up on them isn't necessarily rude, if you've said 'sorry, no thank you' first. But to get pissy with them is just not on.

I worked for Zenith Windows many moons ago when I was still a Student. Hated the job, but a polite 'no thank you' would actually make my day. Didn't take much effort to be polite. The more polite you were, the more chance there was of me putting 'DNC' next to your number, causing you to be taken off our books.

Would love to give that a go though, as they talk over the phone keep saying things like "just cut up the damn arms and put them in bags" . Vanish will get the blood marks out" . "She'd best not scream when we put her in the boot"

All the while trying to seriously listen to what they are saying and making stuff up like "We're cutting up a chicken" if they ask you whats going on and acting very apprehensive

I used to screw with TMs all the time when I managed a local Comic Shop. Things from pretending I was Michael Jackson to really bizarre stuff. One of my favorite ones had me gather my two employees as I answered the phone, telling them to cry like babies really loud into the receiver. I then obnoxiously asked over and over "DO YOU LIKE BABIES?" The call ended with a "What the F*** is wrong with you?!" as the other guy hung up I would sometimes answer and not say anything and got a variety of insults hurled at me before the click, including what could have been Napolean Dynamite himself saying "Are you just not going to say anything, you stupid freaking idiot?" Makes me wish I had a landline again.

Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:You should never feth with a Telemarketer...we have your address. And your phone number.

If people were overly rude to me, I'd simply trim down a matchstick, insert it into the phone so that whilst at rest, it doesn't switch the 'hang up' button, and ring them back at the end of my shift. Begin my shpeel, and when they hang up, replace my receiver, neatly blocking their line.

These people are doing a job, and deserve some kind of respect. I'm pretty sure it's quicker to simply say 'no thank you' then hang up, than come up with some 'oh so' witty comeback....

Unless you come to my house and kill me in my sleep I dont really care.. Blocking my line is fine other telemarketers wont ring me. Yay.

One time a guy did ring up again after I hung up on him. He was acting like I did something wrong so I hung up again. Then he got some other sucker to ring me. Who I then swore at. No more calls that day.

And I have been polite so many times.. Im over it these days. The job is a form of satanic worship in my eyes.