Klarinet Archive - Posting 000391.txt from 2003/01

From: "Rebecca Brennan" <rjbrennan1221@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Telemarketers
Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 18:33:42 -0500

James Hobby said:

I'd
>personally like to reserve a place in hell for telemarketers with child
>molesters and people who illegally use handicap parking spaces.

Harsh! Does that count ex-telemarketers like me who were 16 and had no
choice but to have a job at the time? I quit because I would have gone
insane if I didn't.

I do see where you get that statement from. I am way to sensitive to be a
telemarketer. I would tell the people how to get off the list by giving them
numbers to call and stuff like that. I was given a pay deduction because I
let people talk to the supervisors to get it in writing that they would not
call back.

-Rebecca

>From: "James Hobby" <jhobby@-----.net>
>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>Subject: [kl] Telemarketers
>Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2003 16:27:53 -0600
>
>I used to demand their correct name and home phone number so I could call
>them at inconvenient times. Needless to say, they'd hang up. (I still do
>that with religious nuts, by phone or at the door.)
>
>Now I have a computer adapter that if the call fails to provide a complete
>caller ID (name & number) the call is authomatically disconnected after the
>second ring. When one gets through, I pick up a tuning fork, bang it on my
>knee, and hold the end against the mouthpiece. That usually gets rid of
>them. (It's a high C)
>
>I hear there's a guy who is supposedly working on a computer program that
>will reverse zap any telemarketers that use computers to call, and destroy
>the FAT on their computer. Probably illegal, but fun to contemplate.
>
>And yes, I dispise telemarketers. We have five land lines that come into
>this house/office. It is a constant irritant. We have a state do-not-call
>list, but it's just a $500 fine, so it's not that much of an incentive. >
>Jim
>
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