I was at work one day when I got another annoying call from a telemarketer. As a business location, they seemed to target us even more than they did my house. Today’s telemarketer was no different than the rest so I waited patiently for him to finish his sales pitch so that I could tell him I wasn’t interested and say goodbye. It did occur to me that I should just hang up then and there like I normally do at home, but then I thought that might make the business look bad, and it wasn’t very polite either- so I thought better of it. After all, they know their job sucks. No one wants to be a freakin telemarketer of all things. They know they get hung up on all the time! Well, this bafoon finally came to a stop giving me a chance to use a gung-ho sales pitch voice of my very own to tell him, “Sorry, but we’re not interested.” Ah, the end.
Not quite. He was persistent. He changed the sales pitch and began from the very beginning. I cleared my throat and inhaled loudly, to try and speed him along, and when he finished this time, I tried it again. “Like I said, sorry, but we’re not interested.”
Commence round three. This time I wasn’t in the mood though. I cut him off and with a curt ‘look here buddy,’ and stressed how I was trying to be polite and how I honestly didn’t care about what he had to offer when all of a sudden I hear, CLICK.
WTH? He hung up on me. That rat bastard. I decided then and there, that was the last time I would try to talk it out with a telemarketer. Next time you get a call, hang up, for my sake.
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