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Yep... Slow day at work...
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Well there's 9 1/2 minutes neither I nor Aaron will ever get back. Jaysus, please forgive me for I used to be a telemarketer... Though I was never that gung ho and ridiculous about the product. Damn...
dwarven1
Lonely Mountain Arms
Classic example of why I fought my call center director's stupid idea of doing outbound calling some years back...
God, that was funny. I wish I had as warped an imagination as that guy does. Best I can do is when people call and ask for Mr (my wife's last name), I assume that they're talking about her father - since all our friends and business contacts KNOW that Kath kept her maiden name.
TM: "Hello, can I speak to Mr Xyz?"
ME: "No, I'm sorry, he's dead."
TM: "Oh, I'm sorry for your loss."
ME: "Don't worry about it; he's been dead for years and I never knew him anyway."
TM: *sound of brain melting down*
Kathy just sits there next to me on the couch snickering.
Ross
God, that was funny. I wish I had as warped an imagination as that guy does. Best I can do is when people call and ask for Mr (my wife's last name), I assume that they're talking about her father - since all our friends and business contacts KNOW that Kath kept her maiden name.
TM: "Hello, can I speak to Mr Xyz?"
ME: "No, I'm sorry, he's dead."
TM: "Oh, I'm sorry for your loss."
ME: "Don't worry about it; he's been dead for years and I never knew him anyway."
TM: *sound of brain melting down*
Kathy just sits there next to me on the couch snickering.
Ross
That's better than what I do- I just tell them that I'm not there and that I don't want to talk to them anyway and by the way don't ever call again, I'm on the Do Not Call Registry.
I should learn to have more fun with them.
I should learn to have more fun with them.
We used to use a near perfect telephone spam buster. When we got our first phone, we had it listed in my wife's maiden name, which she doesn't use. Whenever we got a call for Mr or Mrs zzyzx, we knew that it was nobody we were interested in dealing with. My wife tended to be polite, but hang up without listening to anything they might have to say. My typical response was "Oh, just a minute; I'll go get him/her." Funny thing was I never managed to find him/her. Sometimes they's waste several minutes waiting for Godot. It was infinitely better than an unlisted number, because we didn'y pay one cent extra for it, and even people with connections (or social engineering skills) couldn't get our number from TPC.
Ken
Ken
I would sometimes just say, "Really? Tell me more."
Then I would just sit the phone down and walk away. When I head the buzz of it being off the hook. I would hang it back up.
Never really know how long they are talking before they figure out that I'm not there. But it's got to waste some of thier time.
Then I would just sit the phone down and walk away. When I head the buzz of it being off the hook. I would hang it back up.
Never really know how long they are talking before they figure out that I'm not there. But it's got to waste some of thier time.
hehehe
Me and my old boss used to have a competition going like that.. We called it perma-hold. He had the record of over 30 minutes by coming back on the line every once in a while and saying something like... "Ok, sorry about that, I'm real interested in hearing what you have to say, so please continue." Then once the guy would start talking he would say "Oh shoot, could you please hold one more minute" and continue like that. I had this one lady call me one day, trying to sell the company I work for one of the products that we actually make ourselves... I told her "WOW funny you should call right now, I was just given the project of upgrading this for the entire company. Would your company be able to supply licensing and support for over 7000 employees world wide"? I could hear her get VERY excited. I told her to hold on while I went to get my boss who would be able to set up the purchasing. I put her on hold and just kept doing what I was doing... She sat on the phone on hold for 22 minutes before she gave up!
Ahhhh good times!
Adam
Me and my old boss used to have a competition going like that.. We called it perma-hold. He had the record of over 30 minutes by coming back on the line every once in a while and saying something like... "Ok, sorry about that, I'm real interested in hearing what you have to say, so please continue." Then once the guy would start talking he would say "Oh shoot, could you please hold one more minute" and continue like that. I had this one lady call me one day, trying to sell the company I work for one of the products that we actually make ourselves... I told her "WOW funny you should call right now, I was just given the project of upgrading this for the entire company. Would your company be able to supply licensing and support for over 7000 employees world wide"? I could hear her get VERY excited. I told her to hold on while I went to get my boss who would be able to set up the purchasing. I put her on hold and just kept doing what I was doing... She sat on the phone on hold for 22 minutes before she gave up!
Ahhhh good times!
Adam
Got a call yesterday from Blaisdell, LA, with vague threats of court.
Was in the car in traffic so we called back for entertainment value. The guy who answered the phone said, in heavily accented English, “Internal Revenue Service.”
I replied, “Oh, is this the Internal Revenue Service of Pakistan? “ The Guy got really angry and replied, “I’m going to blow your house.” We started laughing, he called me a “P****licker” to which I replied, “Correct,” and he hung up on me.
Was in the car in traffic so we called back for entertainment value. The guy who answered the phone said, in heavily accented English, “Internal Revenue Service.”
I replied, “Oh, is this the Internal Revenue Service of Pakistan? “ The Guy got really angry and replied, “I’m going to blow your house.” We started laughing, he called me a “P****licker” to which I replied, “Correct,” and he hung up on me.
