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FF - Telemarketing--Plea for Forbearance



This is a plea for Christian/Jewish/Islamic/Agnostic/Atheistic charity and
forbearance.

Jill posted:

  Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle, has
proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief experience in a
telemarketing? operation -- that would stop the nuisance for all time.
  The three little words are "Hold on, please."
  Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead of
hanging up immediately -- would make each telemarketing call so
time-consuming that boiler rooms would grind to a halt.   When you
eventually hear the phone company's beep-beep-beep tone, you
know it's time to go back and hang up your handset, which has efficiently
completed its task.
  This might be one of those articles you'll want to e-mail to your
friends. Three little words that eliminate telephone soliciting.

I get as annoyed as anyone else when my privacy is violated and my hat is
off to the comedian who called up the conventioneering telemarketing
executives in the middle of the night.

Nevertheless, some poor souls do have to take these jobs and they have
quotas to make or they get fired.  Consequently, I ask all the good liberals
and both compassionate conservatives on this list to do the responsible
thing and either put your name on your State's "no call list" or simply say
"no thank you" and hang up immediately  so that the poor schmuck on the
other end can get on to the next call.

And if anyone figures out how to harass the executives of phone solicitation
businesses, post it to the list.  They are fair game.

Paul R. Scott
Records Management Officer
Harris County, TX

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