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Re: FF - Telemarketing--Plea for Forbearance



I agree.  I know it's funny to make fun of telemarketers, and of course I'm
as irritated at them as anybody, but I once took a job doing that when I
was very young and out of work.  I also cut them off now as soon as
possible.  I try to be courteous unless they are obnoxious, because I've
been there myself, in just such a "boiler room."  It's hard to hear or even
to think in such a place.  Sometimes it's necessary for us as recipients of
such calls just to make ourselves heard over the din.

I was let go because I wasn't aggressive enough.  But I had an experience
I'll never forget.

Arel
Arel Lucas
Tobacco Control Archives
Library and Center for Knowledge Management
University of California San Francisco
http://www.library.ucsf.edu/tobacco/
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At 01:37 PM 5/3/2002 -0500, Scott, Paul (FPM) wrote:
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.
<snip>
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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