Defend The Indefensible:Telemarketers

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I'm off to bed now.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 08:22 (twenty-one years ago)

There is no defense for telemarketing and the only defense for telemarketers is that even prostitution is not available to them.

― Amarga (Amarga), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 08:30 (twenty-one years ago)

The real problem is people who buy from them.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 08:34 (twenty-one years ago)

carrie brownstein was a telemarketer for a short spell. not sure what she sold though.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 08:58 (twenty-one years ago)

she could sell anything

― the surface noise (electricsound), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:32 (twenty-one years ago)

but she would rather sign a major label than help sell mcdonald's, apparently.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 09:37 (twenty-one years ago)

HI DERE

― Amazing Randy (Amazing Randy), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:13 (twenty-one years ago)

they don't offer you V.I.A.G.R.A. and Xa'nax

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 10:26 (twenty-one years ago)

see that spot on the daily show last night about telemarketers? funny

― ron (ron), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Their existence gives people in affairs a good excuse if taking a phone call at an inappropriate moment.

-- who was that, dear?
-- oh, bloody telemarketers

― Enrique (Enrique), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:32 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm going to cry now. i was actually going to go BACK to doing this - okay, considering it - since the emplyment situation is so bad here...it wouldn't really be tele"marketing" this time though, but calling people who've donated before to ask whether they would donate again to non-profit orgs... it would have paid my bills at least...

this thread is making me change my mind. okay. not really, but almost

― Vic (Vic), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-one years ago)

if you are rude to a telemarketer you can fucking rot in hell. if firms could get a computer to speak well enough they wouldn't pay anyone to do it, but until then, take out your annoyance on ppl who gave us 'flexible labor markets.' why don't you spit in the face of every other barely employed black woman from memphis you're forced to interact with??

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

With the appearance of the new Don't Call List, my cold calling for work has stopped completely! And this is a beautiful thing.

― Sarah McLusky (coco), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

carrie brownstein was a telemarketer for a short spell. not sure what she sold though

She sold vacuum cleaners

― chris j (chris j), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Tommy Stinson (Replacements) was allegedly too, til he hooked up with Axl.

― nickn (nickn), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:10 (twenty-one years ago)

My defense: if the telemarketing industry is somehow dismantled, that's another million-plus people unemployed.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Wednesday, 5 November 2003 21:22 (twenty-one years ago)

She sold vacuum cleaners

i hope some sucker bought one off her.

― Clare (not entirely unhappy), Thursday, 6 November 2003 03:30 (twenty-one years ago)

at least they have jobs.

― hstencil, Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:34 (twenty-one years ago)

"Sucker." Heh.

― L(E^24) (Leee), Thursday, 6 November 2003 07:49 (twenty-one years ago)

two years pass...

http://crazytelemarketer.ytmnd.com/

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 00:00 (nineteen years ago)

http://thehighhat.com/Detritus/004/telemarketing.html

― 100% CHAMPS with a Yes! Attitude. (Austin, Still), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:00 (nineteen years ago)

The woman in the ytmnd clip sounds like that crazy Pentecostal woman on Trading Spouses. "GORGYLES! LIFE DESTROYERS!"

― Whitman Mayonnaise (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:13 (nineteen years ago)

"i hope they play this tape in court some day"

― a.b. (alanbanana), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:18 (nineteen years ago)

Are we regarding people who do bonafide market research (preferably regarding political issues or something rather than calling up to see if you've seen the latest commercial on television with Vinnie Jones in it) as telemarketers as well?

― S- (sgh), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 01:56 (nineteen years ago)

No, but we hate them too.

― Paul in Santa Cruz (Paul in Santa Cruz), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:02 (nineteen years ago)

I did a little telemarketing for the New England Patriots, calling former season ticket holders to see if they wanted to re-up. It wasn't really bad and the folks I called (this was in the 1970s) weren't all put off the way most people are today. 'Course it wasn't exactly cold calls either.

these days I screen almost everything.

― jim wentworth (wench), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:24 (nineteen years ago)

Wow Austin that Detrius blog article is amazing, esp the last part about the job with strict dress codes, ATMs and payphones and such. Businesses like that make me want to go postal.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 18 July 2006 02:54 (nineteen years ago)

one year passes...

We provide some people with their only human contact

― emilys., Thursday, 29 November 2007 00:49 (seventeen years ago)

The kind of telemarketers I hate the most are the ones for vaguely charitable sounding things that I don't care that much about - in particular stuff called Policeman's somethingorother. Because if it's straight marketing I feel comfortable just giving a short excuse and getting off the phone, and if it's real charity or the Dems or something I don't mind listening for a minute, but with stuff like the PBA I feel like it makes me some kind of police-hater to hang up and yet I have no interest in hearing the guy out.

― Hurting 2, Thursday, 29 November 2007 02:25 (seventeen years ago)

That one is even scammier than most of this shit.

― Oilyrags, Thursday, 29 November 2007 02:27 (seventeen years ago)

"Why should I give money to keep kids off drugs? When I was a kid, they took my money and gave me drugs."

― Abbott, Thursday, 29 November 2007 02:34 (seventeen years ago)

carrie brownstein was a telemarketer for a short spell. not sure what she sold though.

i worked with her at this place. it was actually incoming calls. remember those 'FIND A JOB ON A CRUISE SHIP' ads in the back of rolling stone and spin from the 90s? those books, 40 bucks a pop.

she was in fact the best seller out of about 50 people.

― jergïns, Thursday, 29 November 2007 02:46 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

http://gizmodo.com/5428870/42-office-monitor-is-as-good-for-your-eyes-as-it-is-for-your-privacy

― shartin jort (am0n), Thursday, 17 December 2009 21:40 (fifteen years ago)

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