Telemarketors!!!

United States
August 23, 2006 11:08am CST
Tell me, how fun is it to screw with these people? I always get a laugh telling them something like my sister was just shot and is lying on the floor coughing up blood and your calling about potholders! I know its a living but these people should go out and get a real job. Who else agrees? Everyone share your best pranks on telemarketors
11 responses
@jhannon (1406)
• United States
24 Aug 06
I hate them they always call during dinner..!!
@kingkaze (113)
• United States
24 Aug 06
It is a sucky job but i do screw with them sometimes, not because im rude. i screw with anybody whether i know them or not. Yeah its funny but i don't go too overboard with it though.
• United States
23 Aug 06
My mom used to be a telemarketor. I would never do something like that what you have done. These people are calling being all nice and just asking if you would do a survey or something. And all out think about doing pranking the telemarketors that's just wrong. And i say that no one I mean NO ONE should ever do a prank like that about anyone what that happens to you love ones. People shouldn't play like that. If a telemarketor calls just tell them no thank you. That's all, gosh!
@1summer (274)
• United States
23 Aug 06
I just get annoyed when its voice automated or when the person sounds like a recording machine and does not give me a chance to say sorry i am not interested. As soon as they take a breather from talking, i try to tell them and if they dont listen i hang up. some people are good and give you a chance to talk to.
• United States
23 Aug 06
When I was in high school I worked at a collection agency. That was the hardest job some people were nice and some were just plan rude. I never got rude with them but I know they got aggravated with me. I will never work at a collection agency again.
@leeoz22 (183)
• Australia
23 Aug 06
Ha that is funny. I am fed up with them. We are in Australia and I get calls from all over the world.
• United States
23 Aug 06
I think that's terrible that you do that. No one WANTS to be a telemarketer but some times you have to do what you have to do to feed your family. When you do that you waste their time and yours. If they don't make a sale, they don't eat. Just kindly ask them to take you off their list and wish them a good day.
@dellion (6698)
• Malaysia
23 Aug 06
I am not agreed to make fun with those telemarketer as thats part of their jobs. If that we really been called by someone that really not nice we can just tell them we got time and hang up.
• United States
23 Aug 06
i always try to sell them something back. like my car etc... they always hang up on me!!
• United States
23 Aug 06
Yes, it is a gas!!!! One time, I was leaving the house to go to the store and I answered the phone and it was a telemarketer. I asked him to "Please hold while I get the head of the house". I left and wentt to the store and was gone an hour. When I got back, that idiot was still there and I told him that the head of the household wasn't there. He slammed the phone down. Another thing I did was pretend I was a mental case. I let the girl go through her spiel and then I started screaming "HELP ME!!!! MY LITTLE ANIMALS HAVE ESCAPED AND THEY ARE ALIVE!!!" She kept saying "Hello Sir???" and finally hung up.
• United States
23 Aug 06
Usually when a telemarketer calls me, there's several seconds of silence after I pick up the phone and say hello. If someone doesn't respond right away, I just hang up. Otherwise I listen, and then politely say no thank-you and hang up. I have taken surveys over the phone, but I usually don't buy things. Not a big spender.