I came across this and i just had to share it. Give it a listen, and the next time you are aggrevated by those telemarketers remember this==

http://howtoprankatelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

That's too much fun!

I forestall the whole thing with my outgoing message:
"You've reached John and Mary. If you're a telemarketer, we don't want any! Hang up, take us off your list, and get a job where you don't annoy people." Beep.

Every once and a while I hear a deep sigh and a hangup. :lol:

i've asked for a supervisor when the last guy called he said why ? and i told him this is the second time they have dialed MY phone causing it to ring in MY courtroom for a second time this week despite my last and final warning. i said this is a restricted # and it rings in my chambers and ALSO AT MY BENCH ! and now they have disrupted MY courtroom during the prosecutions closing arguments in a homicide trial and may have just caused the prosecution to LOSE THE CASE ! I told him that as we are speaking, the Federal authorities are going to act upon my issuing a bench warrant to hold the telemarketer, his supervisor, and company in contempt, and to expect jail time AND an enormouse financial penalty. either i do that or i act like a senile old timer who keeps asking who is this, and today is my birthday and i am 103 years old..... who is this ? today is my birthday and .......
they don't seem to call back lol

I used to manage a sales floor at a telemarketing firm in Chicago(18+ years ago). We went out of our way to stop calling folks who didn't want the calls. When I left they had been taken over by a French telemarketing firm and the do not call list was a joke.

Sales reps were passing the phone to the person next to them to "act" as the supervisor, the more people screamed the more they were made recalls. Only a few clients of the firm were strict with the do not call laws usually the ones who had been sued before.

You have the right to be put on the companies do not call list.....BUT....you have to watch how you ask.

If you are called ask for a supervisor(nicely) explain you don't want to be called again, from the company making the offer AND from the telemarketing firm. Request both companies send you a confermation letter saying you've been added to the do not call list(they must do this by law). It's good to keep records of who and what calls you get as some companies(banks and insurance) will stop one devision from calling but still call from another.
The federal do not call law has a few large loop holes in it that you must take the time to close before it has any teeth.
By the way my last job with the company was night supervisor of data processing, updating the company do not call list!

I have a call display and call blocker. That takes care of known ones. When I answer new ones, and they start their talk, I put the phone down and come back later and hang up.

...the next time you are aggrevated by those telemarketers remember this...
Unfortunately, this hit the least-guilty party. It didn't get the psychopath(s) who own the telemarketing company. They're the ones who need to get burned.

another thing i do is this, when they ask how my day is, i tell them, and don't stop telling them everything that has happened today and just keep talking and talking and turn it around and start asking them questions until they say ok, goodbye and i say please don't go, we have only talked for 10 minutes and i haven't even got to the afternoon stuff that has happened today, and what happed tonight is a real hoot lol

my brother would answer them in a very thick psudo-russian accent and then segue into a rave about leon trotsky.......

it sure stops the telemarketers in their tracks doesn't it.

check it out !! :dude: It worked for me.


https://www.donotcall.gov/default.aspx

Just be sure not to answer "yes" to ANY question they ask you.

Just a thought: kidnap all the telemarketing company owners and shareholders, tie them up, and put them in a room where phones never stop ringing. LOUDLY.

And have real-time stock tickers, showing only telemarketing stocks, show the stocks dropping in value.

I actually found out today that I like telemarketers.
After spending over 3 hours shopping today and driving in traffic with a bunch of idiots that can't seem to remember how to drive when there is precipitation falling from the sky.
I was more than happy to answer the phone a few times after I got home today.

First one was about 10 minutes after I got in the door.
Caller was a male with a very thick accent.
After asking a few times if he was a US citizen to get him to answer that no he wasn't. I informed him that I am an American and as such I will only speak to another US citizen on the phone. Especially since Homeland Security tends to eavsdrop on phone call originating out of the country and I had no desire to be on one of thier lists.
I would have gone on more, but he hung up.

About 5 minutes later the phone rang again.
I swear it was the same guy.
This time when asked if he was a US citizen he replied that yes he was.
Which I then responded that he should learn how to speak the language and loose that crappy accent. Then I hung up on him.

About 10 minutes later the phone rings again. This time it was one of those really annoying calls where you pick up the phone and you get a message to "please hold for a very important phone call"
Normally I hang up as soon as the message starts.
This time I stayed on the line until some poor girl picked up on the other end. At which point I started going off on the stupidity of calling someone and asking them to hold on the line until someone can bother to start giving them the sales pitch. Which she started to get all indignant about. So I went off and let her have it with both barrels.
She hung up about 80 seconds into the tirade, probably when she figured out it wasn't gonn quit, and she wasn't going to get her sales pitch in.

After that I was a happy person again. I got to vent all that frustration that had built up all day.


So, see.
Telemarketers can serve a usefull purpose :D

you bet they can tay, when they call and aggravate me, i do the same to them after they ignore the warning to not call me again, and if they do, i present them with something that woill worry them till their shorts leak lol

My dad - now elderly and cranky about it - had one call him some time back trying to sell light bulbs. Yes, LIGHT BULBS. When Dad cut him off quick the caller whined something like, "Sir, you're not even giving me a chance here." Dad's response to this young-sounding guy was along the lines of "NMP...you sound smart so why don't YOU give yourself a chance and get an education or training of SOME kind that will get you out of that soul-killing pit* you're in. Go into debt if you have to do it, but DO SOMETHING. You'll be happier in the long run." Most caller center drones already know that, of course, so pestering people on the phone for insulting pay is easier to live with, I guess.

*I can attest: years ago I worked for about a year as directory assistance for a now dead cell company. *shudder*

I started going off on the stupidity of calling someone and asking them to hold on the line until someone can bother to start giving them the sales pitch.
That probably happened because a computer does the calling, and it waits a few seconds after you pick up to determine whether they're getting a live person or voicemail. Only then does the system allow the person on the other end to speak to you.

Several years ago, my then-wife took a second job where she did political polling. She only did it a couple of weeks, because she came home in tears some days from some of the responses she got. Some were simply terribly rude, while a few crossed over into verbal abuse and even (empty) threats.

When I get such a call, I simply say, "I'm sorry, but I'm really not interested." I always get a response that is some variation of "Okay, sir. I'm sorry to have bothered you; have a good day."

Qapla'

SSB

I've used that response, but most times they just get more entrenched in the idea that if they never slow down and read their script you won't have the time to respond negatively. I usually just ask them to hold for a minute and go about my business until the phone gives that awful sound telling you that the other person hung up.

That is another one I do also.
Just leave the phone there.
Might as well run their bill up as much as possible.

Always tell them to take you off their call list. It's a crime if they don't.

Actually I am on the national "do not call list". There are a few stragglers though. The bastiches!!!!

The problem is, the do not call list doesn't apply to anyone you do business with. Half the calls we get are from our own credit card companies.
Trying to offer more services and upgrades and crap.