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Al Borland posted:People still do this? Well my house has never been robbed and I basically never answer the door unless I am expecting a package or friend so they must think I'm never home. But yes, even major companies like Verizon, ADT, and Terminix still do this.
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I once talked a telemarketer into suicide and he killed himself during the call.
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Oct 6, 2015 12:57
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I did incoming sales for a company, which is way better than outgoing sales, and the call center had come up with a good trick: bonus payouts were based on both sales:call ratio and QA scores from the quality team listening to your calls. If you did too well one month, QA would deliberately drop your scores to reduce your payout. Not shockingly, about half the long-time sales force quit in a month when people figured it out.
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Oct 6, 2015 13:38
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I once had a particular telemarketing company that would bother my workplace several times a day. This went on for months and it drove me crazy. As the Do Not Call list does not apply to companies, there wasn't anything legal I could do to stop them. Fortunately they weren't smart enough to block their number out on caller ID. After asking them nicely to stop, I lost patience. I grabbed three phone lines, programmed their number in and proceeded to blow up their phone over and over for several hours just talking poo poo to them, hitting redial immediately as soon as they hung up. I could hear the chaos in the background it was pretty hilarious and definitely they weren't getting any work done that afternoon. They tried to spook me by looking up my phone number and answering the phone "XX township police department" and I just told them to suck it. I continued this for the better part of the afternoon. As the job was pretty much a do-nothing job I literally had hours to sit there and gently caress with these people. Finally around quitting time I made one final phone call and said "listen to me very carefully, I can guarantee I have more free time than you do to continue this little game. You need to lose this phone number and never call it again or I will make it my mission to gently caress with you guys a lot more than I have today. Never call this number again. *click*" They never called again.
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Oct 6, 2015 13:46
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Applewhite posted:I once talked a telemarketer into suicide and he killed himself during the call.
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Oct 6, 2015 13:52
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I worked a telemarketing job, one summer to pay the rent, for 3 hours. I can't even remember what it was I was selling but we were told to tell the potential customer that a donation would be made to the 9/11 Fire Fighters fund if they made a purchase. There was no donation. I only stayed 3 hours into my shift and walked out. I didn't make a sale. Best rep ever. I was too young and dumb to report them.
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Oct 6, 2015 13:59
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i have only declined three job offers in my life one was at a degree mill one was for a chiropractor's office and one was for a "charity" telemarketing gig I regret nothing
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Oct 6, 2015 21:55
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My roommate was a telemarketer for a few weeks. We liked to jokingly call him No-Sale Zack. We called him that because his name is Zack and he never got any sales.
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Oct 6, 2015 21:57
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PUGGERNAUT posted:i have only declined three job offers in my life i recently declined a job offer because they expected me to not go to class when they called me in on certain days
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Oct 6, 2015 22:03
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Rambling Robot posted:gently caress everything about telemarketing. so that's why your posting has gotten so eccentric
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Oct 6, 2015 22:05
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revmoo posted:They never called again. Should have hooked them up with Lenny E: "Marshal" is a loving awful telemarketer. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5IKbFATKLo Al Borland fucked around with this message at 22:10 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Oct 6, 2015 22:08
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i would rather be a literal robber/mugger than work a telemarketing job
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Oct 6, 2015 22:12
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Next telemarketer that calls I'm gonna just start a conversation with about how they're doing and whats going on in their life. Their life is lovely enough I'm sure they could use a 10-15 minute break just talking poo poo. E: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSoOrlh5i1k This is a much better lenny call and its pretty hilarious poor lady 14 minutes with Lenny. Al Borland fucked around with this message at 22:22 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Oct 6, 2015 22:16
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Al Borland posted:Next telemarketer that calls I'm gonna just start a conversation with about how they're doing and whats going on in their life. Their life is lovely enough I'm sure they could use a 10-15 minute break just talking poo poo. If the fact that every single instant of every call is recorded and subject to random or nonrandom scrutiny by QA was not enough to dissuade them from wandering off script, the constantly pacing "floor manager" zeroing in on their asses from two rows away will shut that conversation down pronto. A normal human speech pattern would stick out over the tightly-constrained dispassionate droning like a fart in church.
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Oct 8, 2015 09:35
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I usually hang up to their face but I wish them a heartfelt good luck before bc I think I'd need some kind words if I was doing this job too.
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Oct 8, 2015 09:48
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Al Borland posted:Next telemarketer that calls I'm gonna just start a conversation with about how they're doing and whats going on in their life. Their life is lovely enough I'm sure they could use a 10-15 minute break just talking poo poo. you'll just piss them off because you're wasting their time muchhh likkkee youururr po
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Oct 8, 2015 13:36
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Moola posted:I worked in a call center for three years and it actually destroyed a part of me I've been working at one for 4 years and everything is miserable. Its shutting down in January so I'm excited to get my severance pay and also see the extreme meltdown.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:14
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Libelous Slander posted:Id rather go to prison than work in a call center again funny story, my girlfriend is an ex con and the only job she could get was in telemarketing and if she lost it, they'd put her back in jail, good post, buddy actually she got mad and quit last week, haven't seen her for like 6 days, maybe shes already back in jail lol
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Oct 10, 2015 00:25
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I saw a very pregnant lady smoking during my training. She was one of those mean-looking ladies. I smoked too, but I stood away from her when we had breaks. She was quite fearsome.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:28
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moller posted:If the fact that every single instant of every call is recorded and subject to random or nonrandom scrutiny by QA was not enough to dissuade them from wandering off script, the constantly pacing "floor manager" zeroing in on their asses from two rows away will shut that conversation down pronto. Excellent.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:47
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Do people still get telemarketing calls on their cell phones? I don't think I've gotten one in at least four years.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:50
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haljordan posted:Do people still get telemarketing calls on their cell phones? I don't think I've gotten one in at least four years. I've gotten poll questions the past few weeks. I just say, "I'm not interested" or "Put me down for Trump."
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Oct 10, 2015 00:52
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Al Borland posted:I've gotten poll questions the past few weeks. I just say, "I'm not interested" or "Put me down for Trump." Man I'm so glad I live in a state that pretty much is guaranteed to go for the Democratic candidate for president. My brother lives in Florida and he says he still has nightmares about the non-stop campaign ads on pretty much every single form of media back in 2012.
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Oct 10, 2015 00:54
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haljordan posted:Man I'm so glad I live in a state that pretty much is guaranteed to go for the Democratic candidate for president. My brother lives in Florida and he says he still has nightmares about the non-stop campaign ads on pretty much every single form of media back in 2012. Im registered in Wisconsin so I'd say its 50-50 but in reality let's be honest here. Democrats got this poo poo Bernie 2016 would actually get me to vote for a democrat. And I'm a conservative lol. Cause holy poo poo when I look at what the republican offer.
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Al Borland posted:Im registered in Wisconsin so I'd say its 50-50 but in reality let's be honest here. Democrats got this poo poo Bernie 2016 would actually get me to vote for a democrat. And I'm a conservative lol. Watching the GOP desperately trying to find ANYONE who actually wants Boehner's job is quite hilarious. I think eventually they'll have to resort to drugging some unsuspecting Republican and filming a scene of him "agreeing" to take the job, a la "Weekend at Bernie's". haljordan fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Oct 10, 2015 |
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