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starbelly
but you can call me Neil
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I do not want to join your friends network.
I do not want to share photos with you.
I do not want to tell you my birthday so you can update your contacts list.
Thank you, now leave me alone.
[ 04. April 2007, 12:38: Message edited by: Sarkycow ]
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Hazey*Jane
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Particularly when you can't even spel my name rite.
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RooK
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I do not want to talk to you. I've got caller ID, and can see that you're calling from a toll-free number, and that's why I used the IGNORE function. FIVE times.
Perhaps it's expecting too much from a phone-monkey for them to realize that when it rings just one-and-a-half times that you're being intentionally shunted to voicemail.
What I want is a third route I can shunt callers into. My standard "no answer" message, my blunter "busy" message, and another one. One to use if I recognize that I not only don't want to talk to the person but also that I don't want them to want to talk to me.
RING RI-
"FUCK OFF AND DIE!"
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Alfred E. Neuman
What? Me worry?
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Originally posted by starbelly:
I do not want to join your friends network.
I do not want to share photos with you.
I do not want to tell you my birthday so you can update your contacts list.
Thank you, now leave me alone.
What? I'm not good enough for you? Something to hide? Don't meet your exalted standards for friendship? Fine, then! I have plenty of friends who appreciate me for who I am! You can just bugger off!
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duchess
Ship's Blue Blooded Lady
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I had a guy literally hang up the phone on me when I cold-called him. 3 times.Being in my own world, I just thought the operator as his company was having trouble putting me through to the IT guy. Finally the fourth time, he was in a foul mood...
"Can't you see I've hung up on you 3 times!"
I was honestly all hurt and stuff...so my voice broke and I said...
"Ohh....ok..." and the guy INSTANTLY felt bad.
"Okay, what company are you calling from?" I was silent since he did the one thing that would hurt me, pick up the phone and slam it down on me...and I was processing this information....He asked again "What company are you calling from...I'll tell you the right person to talk to here. What are you selling?"
And we went on from there to have a lovely conversation after I collected myself.
I know deep down IT guys may act tough but they do have a heart hidden underneath the walls of stone, barb-wire and coal.
I might add, just let people like me go to voice mail. No need to be an *&hole and most of the time in real life, you DO feel bad about it afterwards, especially if you are caught off guard.
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Bean Sidhe
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Duchess I heard it said that if you're really not going to be interested, the best thing you can do for a telesales person is to hang up on them, because if they ever let a prospective customer go voluntarily without infinite efforts to keep them talking they're likely to be fired, any truth in that?
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Uncle Pete
Loyaute me lie
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Tenacious buggers the lot of them! I made the mistake of donating to an organisation once about 10 years ago, and I still get follow up calls "thanking me for my recent donation" and wondering if I would like to give more.
If you had sent me financial statements when I requested them, I might be more inclined to hear you out, but in the meantime? Le'me alone! And next time you call, do try to pronounce my name correctly.
Telephone marketers are one reason I keep my phone on more than 5 rings, and why I don't have call display. They usually hang up after three, and I never answer until the 5th or sixth ring.
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Left at the Altar
Ship's Siren
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I don't want a bigger penis.
I don't want a bigger mortgage.
I don't want to be part of the biggest chain letter ever attempted.
I do not want to view porn involving teens and donkey-dorked men.
I do not want to assist you with a survey on my television preferences.
The balance of my bank account is none of your business.
Even if you could make me happy simply by changing my telephone/internet/gas/electricity account to one operated by your company, I like being miserable with my inadquate sex organs, small house, old television without connection to porn channels and my complete and utter lack of savings.
So sod off.
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Patdys
Iron Wannabe
RooK-Annoyer
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Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
I like being miserable with my inadquate sex organs, small house, old television without connection to porn channels and my complete and utter lack of savings.
Take my life. You'll be ecstatic.
When asked, who the Hell do you expect to please with that pathetic appendage, the only possible answer is 'Me' ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
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Welease Woderwick
Sister Incubus Nightmare
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Telemarketing has, so far at least, failed to appear over here. For this I am truly grateful.
I do, however, feel some sympathy for the cold claers as it must be a pretty tough job.
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duchess
Ship's Blue Blooded Lady
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Originally posted by Bean Sidhe:
Duchess I heard it said that if you're really not going to be interested, the best thing you can do for a telesales person is to hang up on them, because if they ever let a prospective customer go voluntarily without infinite efforts to keep them talking they're likely to be fired, any truth in that?
Well, I only call places of buzinezzes, not homes/residental dwellings.
That said, I have called some people back who have hung up on me. It's fun and good training, for character strength building.
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Left at the Altar
Ship's Siren
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Originally posted by Pure as the Driven Yellow Snow:
quote:
Originally posted by Left at the Altar:
I like being miserable with my inadquate sex organs, small house, old television without connection to porn channels and my complete and utter lack of savings.
Take my life. You'll be ecstatic.
When asked, who the Hell do you expect to please with that pathetic appendage, the only possible answer is 'Me'
Oh, I don't know. Lots of people appreciate bonsai.
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Zappa
Ship's Wake
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Originally posted by RooK:
What I want is a third route I can shunt callers into. My standard "no answer" message, my blunter "busy" message, and another one. One to use if I recognize that I not only don't want to talk to the person but also that I don't want them to want to talk to me.
RING RI-
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Ooooh yes ... I could train it to recognize episcopal voices/numbers, too.
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and mayhap this too: http://broken-moments.blogspot.co.nz/
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Cartmel Veteran
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Originally posted by starbelly:
I do not want to join your friends network.
I do not want to share photos with you.
I do not want to tell you my birthday so you can update your contacts list.
Thank you, now leave me alone.
I regularly get friends network/photo/contact update emails from people I knew many moons ago in an MSN "Christian" community.
It was a hotbed of raving fundies, psychopaths, goldiggers, compulsive liars and the insane.
Should I ever wish to have my savings stolen, my faith crushed or catch a strange disease I'll be in touch. Until then, they can bog off.
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Flubb
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Telemarketer payback :>
I want to do this ![[Overused]](graemlins/notworthy.gif)
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starbelly
but you can call me Neil
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Telemarketers I can hang up on without worry, spam mail in general I have learnt to live with.
It is people I know, and have met, and I thought had a life who are sending me all these annoying requests to waste my time. Friends network? I am already your fucking friend, do you really need a list of friends to make you feel better (all this goes for frigging MySpace as well... stupid idea that is)
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Arabella Purity Winterbottom
Trumpeting hope
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I do not want to purchase SKY. I don't have a television. So why do you ring me every three weeks or so?
I don't understand why I haven't been taken off their list. I've asked.
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Ophelia
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quote:
Originally posted by Welease Woderwick:
Telemarketing has, so far at least, failed to appear over here. For this I am truly grateful.
Which is ironic, as the last 4 cold calls I've had have all been from there!
I do not want to read your "forward, forward" email.
I do not want to send it on to 10 people to make my wish come true.
Your are an intelligent proffesional. How can you belive this stuff? It is bollocks. Stop plaguing me with it.
Thank you.
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Meg the Red
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I do not, ever again, want to hear "Oh, I got finally get to talk to a real person!"
I hear it 14 times a day.
What in High Holy Hell do you want me to say in reply, O Ye With the Brains of A Moribund Gopher?
I understand that you do not like the the automated phone system. I understand that a person of your phenomenal importance expects the the planets to freeze in their courses when you decide to lift the receiver. I understand that you expect my vastly underfunded workplace to pay a stable of otherwise redundant employees to spend 8 hours a day gazing longingly at their telephones in the fervent hope that you will contact them to ask a question of stunning inanity.
I understand this. Rest assured that it would not be so if I ran the universe.
Tragically, I do not run the universe. Because, if I did, you would be dropped on your head from a height, repeatedly and with considerable vigour, for bitching at those of us who have no control over our employer's choice of communication systems.
Thank you for your call. Have a nice day. ![[Smile]](smile.gif)
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Paul.
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If you're in the UK, sign up to this service. It's free and it works.
Duchess - it's sounds like you're in the wrong job. Not only because I think anyone who does that is but because you get upset when someone is rude or hangs up, which would seem to be an occupational hazard.
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Twilight
Puddleglum's sister
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I do not want to check $200.00, $400.00 or $1000.00. I do not want to give you any money at all ever again. I'm so sorry about the first time I could kick myself. Quit filling my mail box with sob stories about the children that will die today, if I don't fork over. Instead, I've dedicated my charity money to those shoe boxes full of Christmas toys -- I'd like to see the soldiers in Iraq use that!
Particularly the pink dress-up outfit with the jeweled tiara.
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Hazey*Jane
Ship's Biscuit Crumbs
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If you are my friend, why are you sending me an email that, if I don't forward it to fifteen people in the next five minutes, will curse me to bad luck. Eh?
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Left at the Altar
Ship's Siren
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I have recently changed my email options so that any email message that I receive from a person I know quite well, goes straight to my Junk Mail folder.
I am so sick of the shite that she sends me. Chain letters, virus hoaxes, "lovely" prayers for this or that. Blerrr.
Silly cow.
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Schroedinger's cat
Ship's cool cat
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tps works - we had signed up for it, then we moved. We started getting a lot of calls again, so we signed up again, and they stopped, largely.
I do feel sorry for tele-marketing people. It must be such a soul-destroying job - which probably explains why it is run by Satan. I realise that the people doing it are often just doing a job, even if the job sucks.
And even if I did want a penis enlargement, what are the chances I would let an organisation with the sort of morals to randomly spam people anywhere near my member? Less than zero.
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take out this broken heart and renew my mind.
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Curiosity killed ...
Ship's Mug
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The only thing TPS doesn't work against are the automated taped American voices selling holidays that ring you back if you hang up too quickly - and leave messages on the answerphone.
![[Mad]](angryfire.gif)
But any person who calls just needs telling that they should check TPS and they go away. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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basso
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Originally posted by starbelly:
I do not want to tell you my birthday so you can update your contacts list.
Especially since this means that you've given my email address to an untrusted (by me, at least) third party.
Just stop it. Now.
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Low Treason
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Originally posted by Cartmel Veteran:
[I regularly get friends network/photo/contact update emails from people I knew many moons ago in an MSN "Christian" community.
It was a hotbed of raving fundies, psychopaths, goldiggers, compulsive liars and the insane.
NOT like SoF then!! ![[Killing me]](graemlins/killingme.gif)
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Flausa
Mad Woman
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As mentioned by RuthW on another thread ... I do not want to hear your unsolicited advice. Please just take it and shove it up your ass sideways. Thank you. Goodbye.
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Telepath
Ship's Steamer Trunk
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I do not give a stuff about the Drongo virus, or whatever other virus hoax you are propagating this week. That's because I know how to use my PC, which is more than you seem to be willing to bother finding out.
I do not want to forward some sappy, misattributed poem to 150 of my closest, soon-to-be-ex friends so that you can kid yourself that the American Cancer Society will get three cents every time I do this.
I also do not want to politely and discreetly draw your attention to the Snopes page which explains, very patiently, why chain letters like this force the American Cancer Society to divert resources to answering queries about hoax chain letters - resources which would otherwise go to actual kids with actual cancer.
That's because, when I sent you the Snopes page about the Drongo virus hoax, you replied, "well other people have said that to me, id rather send it to everyone and, have it be nothing than not tell anyone and have it turn out to be real!!!"
You had all the resources to find out whether the glurgey poem was real, without wasting a single electrical impulse out of your vacuous, attention-seeking head, and you chose not to use them, so that we could all see what a sentimental drip you are and how much you reeely, reeeellly care about fictitious kiddywinks with cancer of the hemistich.
And while we're at it, it was very nice of you to take the trouble to handwrite that letter declining my party invitation, but that does not mean I want to cancel my party so I can instead go to your charity fundraiser the same night. Much as the prospect of dining on half a room-temperature pre-baked Lidl potato enchants me, especially against the background of a lively Trivial Pursuit game, it would be a dishonour to my guests to let them know I've better fish to fry and that everybody who is anybody will be playing Twister in your living room in hopes of winning the single cheese straw that your hostessly largesse has spread upon the groaning board. Plus I'm not too keen on parties where I have to bring my own drinking water, especially when I've got to stump up for the entrance fee as well.
Against all of that, your apology for the quality of the writing paper was a nice touch. Stylish.
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HenryT
Canadian Anglican
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Originally posted by *Leon*:
Has anyone tried this?
Yes - it got me hung up on by the telemarketer ... who was very likely a front for a fraud.
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ozowen
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At work we have frequent bouts of Indian tele marketers sho have been poorly trained to talk to Australians.
eg: telling us we "have to" listen to him/ her."
Yeah?
I got news for you sunshine,it's all bad.
I just hang up, the moment's silence before they begin, and that echo in the line; all signals that I am about to hear crap and then have to be rude.
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I do not want to vote for your Republican candidate.
No matter how many phone calls I get telling me that my Democratic choices are horrible baby killing valueless Satan lovers who don't care about our troops.
No matter what Pat Robertson says on his 700 Club "news" show.
No matter what that Focus on the Family guy says.
No matter what my pastor tries to say without actually saying.
No. I do not want to vote Republican.
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saysay
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Midterm elections in a swing state getting to you, too?
What if I do want to destroy America and eat all the children. Did you ever think of that?
No, I don't want to talk to you about my vote.
No, I don't think the activist judges are destroying marriage in New Jersey.
LEAVE ME ALONE.
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I'll tell you all about it when I see you again"
"'Oh sweet baby purple Jesus' - that's a direct quote from a 9 year old - shoutout to purple Jesus."
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Bean Sidhe
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Originally posted by Curiosity killed ...:
The only thing TPS doesn't work against are the automated taped American voices selling holidays that ring you back if you hang up too quickly - and leave messages on the answerphone.
I keep getting those. Usually for Florida with a Disneyland ticket thrown in. I never took one seriously enough to find out what the catch is.
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His lips are moving.
Danny DeVito
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Alfred E. Neuman
What? Me worry?
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No, I don't want to... go to another company 'team-spirit' meeting and sit around slack-jawed staring into space while your hired seminar-monkey drones on and on with his four-hour permanent grin. My team has learned to appreciate the lash, thank-you-very-much, and they're probably slacking off right now, while my arse goes slowly numb in this chair. In fact, I've got an overpowering urge to display my skills with the whip right here! Let's see if you can keep grinning, huh?
[whooosh..*snap*...THANK YOU, SIR! MAY I HAVE ANOTHER?! whooosh...*snap*]
No, I don't want to... go to another company awards meeting. Just send me the damned bonus check and another One-Eyed-Man-In-The-Land-Of-The-Blind plaque. Thanks. Appreciate it.
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RooK
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I didn't realize that this thread was an excuse to brag in Hell.
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Alfred E. Neuman
What? Me worry?
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You have no idea how tedious and irritating it is to be constantly recognized for excellence by those lesser than yourself.
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RooK
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I would think that you'd lap it up; after all, who else is going to "recognize" your "excellence"?
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Alfred E. Neuman
What? Me worry?
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I thought I'd just explained "who else?". Excuse me while I go console myself on the depression thread.
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ReginaShoe
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quote:
Originally posted by ozowen:
At work we have frequent bouts of Indian tele marketers sho have been poorly trained to talk to Australians.
What really gets me, for some reason, is when the telemarketer with the thick Indian accent calls and makes a point of introducing themselves immediately as "Megan Smith" or something similar, often stumbling slightly over the name. So, not only are you blatantly lying to me, you are also telling me that I am such a racist that I will listen attentively to "Megan Smith" but hang up on "Padma Kanchankar"?
Like insulting both my intelligence and my morals is a way to get me to buy your product....
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Scholar Gypsy
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I do not wish telemarketers to call me by my first name and repeat it constantly throughout the conversation to demonstrate that they've remembered it.
I do not want BT, or anyone else, to send me bills addressing me by my first name.
We do not know one another, we have never met.
I am corresponding with you soley for business purposes.
I am your customer - you are (supposedly) providing a service for me, for which I am paying you. End of story.
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Rossweisse
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If they call me by my first name, I know it's not a friend of mine, and my guard goes up.
I don't get as many of those now that we're on the no-call list, and since I got Caller ID. "Unknown name," "unknown number"? Don't bother me.
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Panda
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quote:
Originally posted by Scholar Gypsy:
I do not wish telemarketers to call me by my first name and repeat it constantly throughout the conversation to demonstrate that they've remembered it.
I do not want BT, or anyone else, to send me bills addressing me by my first name.
We do not know one another, we have never met.
I am corresponding with you soley for business purposes.
I am your customer - you are (supposedly) providing a service for me, for which I am paying you. End of story.
And don't call me 'love', or 'darling' or even 'pet'. I am none of these to you, and instead of endearing you to me, you are only pissing me off further.
I find TPS works quite well too, although call centres in India still get through. When they can't pronounce my last name (which is mildly Welsh and EXTREMELY commonly found), it's a bit of a giveaway.
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Papio
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I simply find that "Hello, Mr. Papio, my name is Pointlessdrone and I'm calling to enqu.." "Fuck Off" *SLAM* works pretty well.
Call me old fashioned but I find the idea that people are entitled to call me when I am at home and try to flog me some hideous piece of crap that I don't want is fucking outrageous. The companies that can't even be arsed to get a real person to do the calling are the fucking pits. "Hello Mr. Papio. This is a robot from Shoddy and Shite calling to see if you want double glazing. Press 1 to hear a list of our prices. Press 2 to book an appointment".
So, do I press 3 if I want you and your company to rot in hades for all eternity but only after I have informed you that I would rather decapitate myself with a rabid weasel then buy anything whatsoever from you under any circumstances that it would be possible for you to elucidate? Do I press 4 if I wish to point out that disturbing me and trying to flog some dreary piece of shite to me when you can't even be arsed to hire a real person to talk to me makes me slightly less inclined to buy your worthless product then I would be to attempt to remove my own innards with a teaspoon?
If I wanted you 10nth-rate product, and shitty customer "service" and obviously piss-poor attitude and general fuckwittedness and thorough-going incompetance, I would be asking you for it. The fact that I haven't is therefore a clue as to whether I am interested in doing buisness with you or not. Now fuck off and die, worthless scum.
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I don't want to receive another taped call from Al Gore, Bill Clinton, Arnold Schwarzenneger, a nurse, a teacher, or a police officer urging me to vote for ... I have no idea, because I hang up or delete the message.
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I have a name which people who don't actually have any dealings with or knowledge of me, are likely to get wrong. It's a very useful filter.
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