Take That Telemarketers!

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I can remember mine - 3months I think I lasted. Thank goodness I got a job at the nuke plant...

You were a telemarketer for a nuclear power plant?!?

[Ghoulish Delight]

Just send $1 to Happy Dude.

[Prudence]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

And yes, the recorded calls are increasing. And it's because if a company gets your name in some sort of "legitimate way" (i.e., some thing you signed up for once had "we can and will sell your name to anyone and everyone for the next several millennia" burried in their terms), they can call you...unless you tell them to take you off their list. Can't tell it to a machine. Bastards.

And my problem is that the companies calling are all business oriented services and have a business relationship with ----- the morons who have been giving out our phone number as their business number (to everyone, including banks, the state employment insurance people, other contractors with whom they work, etc...) for three years now. Their real number is off from ours by a digit, but they continue to give out the wrong number. It's even that way on their business application, so I finally called the state. And I've started calling the vendors and banks to let them know the company is a steaming pile of poo. But that doesn't help the telemarketing calls.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by €uroMeinke

I can remember mine - 3months I think I lasted.

Three DAYS for me....on the fourth I showed up and found out our "operation" had been busted. Not exactly on the up and up.

[innerSpaceman]

I've got you all beat at 3 hours.



I left for lunch, and never came back.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

I'm waiting for someone to claim a 3 minute employment.

[€uroMeinke]

Zapppop?

[flippyshark]

I've got three hours beat, by one. I lasted at my telemarketing job for two hours, then was ousted because I as overheard saying something the boss interpreted as critical or sarcastic, which it probably was.

[BarTopDancer]

I lasted 2 days. Never saw a check from them either.

The worst part is that most of the employees were from a sober house and they threatened to fire them for "breaking the sober house rules" (which would get them kicked out of the sober house) if they took a lunch or break.

[CoasterMatt]

I ran the phone systems for a Sears Marketing Center for a short time in 2000.
All those calls were to existing Sears maintenance agreement customers, though.