Time Sync #19: Torturing Telemarketers

Network World ^ | 01/10/2007 | Mark Gibbs

[Jeffrey_D.]

I ask if they have any chimpanzees for sale......there's usually silence and then either a giggle or 'click'

[Alouette]

I haven't had a telemarketing call since the DO NOT CALL list went into effect, except for some politcal calls during election time (they are apparently exempt from DO NOT CALL)

Last night, though, I got a call from a little girl selling cookies. I ordered a box of cookies and made her day.

[Fairview]

Fine, now I've laughed myself into an asthma attack! I have wrecked my makeup because I laughed so hard I'm crying. This is absolutely the funniest thing I've heard in years.

[EEDUDE]

""Our junk mail has gone WAY down.""

Why would you want to do that?

We heat our entire home with it.

Not one penny for heat last Winter.

[rod1]

I tell them (accurately) that I am a consultant and my time/my opinion is money. Then I ask what compensation they are offering me.

A gasp usually follows and then after a pause, a click.

[metmom]

Our new old house didn't come with a wood stove like our old old house had. :((

[metmom]

That could work is you could get lots of people to do it.

Sadly, we've traded credit card applications with college brochures. My son forgot to check a box or something when he took his SAT or ACT test.....

[Rightly Biased]

I just give the phone to my 3 year old they hang up eventualy

[Scarchin]

DANG!!! Do you mean to tell me that I HAVEN'T won a digital satellite system???

[myprecious]

....a call from a little girl selling cookies. I ordered a box of cookies and made her day.

mmmmmmm, thin mints.......

[Pirate21]

I get too much enjoyment out of mailing them back an empty envelope at their expense...

You, too?  :-)