Posted on 05/25/2014 2:25:41 AM PDT by Slings and Arrows
Telesales reps have been asked to reveal the cruellest things people have said to them over the phone.
Cold callers of reddit disclosed the harshest and most bizarre put-downs they have suffered, presumably before being hung up on by disgruntled members of the public.
No one like being disturbed by strangers wasting their time with sales talk and most of us do not appear to be shy about telling random callers exactly what they think.
(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...
Get a haircut and get a real job.
Uhhhh, Khakis.
You obviously don’t have my cable company. It’s all I can do to not go in in person and cuss them out up one side and down the other. It’s out a dozen times a day 24/7 and due to their fuzzy math we’re being charged higher than advertized rates.
One day after a half hour or so of asking questions and being agreeable he finally tried to close. I blandly said "I'm not interested" "What???" "Never have been, you waste my Time I waste yours."
The guy slams down the phone.
A couple minutes later he calls me back to curse me out!
Please, let me know how that is done. The "do not call list" doesn't work and political calls are exempt. It's that just rich that politicians can exempt themselves. The last local election, we told the guy because he called several times a day we'd be voting for his opponent.
Stella?
How do you determine the ethnicity of someone on the phone?
If they even call my phone they get cused out with ecvery foul thing I can think of!
I hate sales people of all kinds!
If one bothers me “trying to help” when i’m in a store i will walk ot and put them on a list of nwever to buy from!
They want to ax you a question...
It was great having young children. We used to just pass the phone to the kids. Once they were teenagers and not so much fun we just politely told the callers that we were not interested. If they persisted they got an air horn blown at them.
Your posts suggests the following response to a telemarketer:
“Oh your poor dear. I can’t imagine what kind of awful circumstances forced you to take such a dreadful job, but you’ll be in my prayers.”
How do you determine the ethnicity of someone on the phone?
If you have to ask the question it wouldn’t do me any good to explain it.
You should really eat a Twinkie, you need it.
I have some who call on our business line, say they are a friend of my husband, give a bogus first name and then demand to speak with him. One such called, was politely told “he’s not available” and hung up on. He called back:”Why do you get to decide who Mr. reformedliberal speaks to!” (insert much aggrieved tone). “That is my job. He refuses to speak to anyone I haven’t vetted.” BTW, this is true. DH’s usual response to a ringing phone is some sort of exasperated profanity, even when he recognizes the number/name.
I screen all calls. I usually don’t answer, but sometimes the caller ID is blocked and the number could easily be that of a client of either of our businesses, so I do. If rejectees call back, they are ignored. If I received your trainers’ pay back call, I would have told him to stand in line. I have a website with a public email address. I get over 100 spams/day telling me I have won/inherited millions of USD. I am simply not guiltable on those grounds.
Disclosure: I did magazine sales cold calling in HS. I was good at it. I hated it. Quit to run a cash register as soon as possible.
My phone is for my convenience. I do not pay the monthly pay so that unsolicited sales people can have unfettered access to me. Yes we should all be Christian in our responses, but their calling me is not very Christian either.
I’m a mean bastard and proud of it!
If I ate a twinkie I would have to go kill a queer!
My phone number is on the DO NOT CALL LIST. So when some rude, ignorant jackass of a telemarketer IGNORES the DO NOT CALL LIST and calls my phone number, they get what they deserve.
I'm sorry but I have absolutely no pity or compassion for telemarketers.
You do know that I have plans to some day show up on your doorstep with a box of Twinkies, don’t you?
You’re moving the date up...
DUCK!
ROFL!! That is the funniest thing I’ve ever heard ..... gotta try that sometime.
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