Re: 20 Ways to Torture Telemarketers!
There's also the simple solution of quietly putting the receiver down next to the phone and coming back a few minutes later to hang it up, assuming by that point that the telemarketer has given up.
We finally found it easier to sign up on the 'Do Not Call' list. In the years we've been on that, we've had literally only ONE telemarketing call, and when I politely asked the name and location of the company and had noted it, I THEN told him that we were on the 'Do Not Call' list and that I intended to report the company. He got off the phone fast! We did learn afterwards that religious, political, and charitable organizations are not subject to the 'Do Not Call' list....
One of our sons worked for years as a telemarketer; frankly I thought he was nuts, especially as he has educational qualifications that far exceed the requirements (if there are any...) for telemarketers. He arrived to work one morning to find the building padlocked, surrounded by federal agents, following the accumulation of FIVE THOUSAND formal complaints against this one company. Some 900 people out of work overnight! Now, working for a different telemarketing company, he's been promoted to reviewing the recordings of calls that resulted in positive 'hits' to make sure there will be no grounds for complaints later. Still wish he'd find something different....
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