Telemarketing Trick

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Yeah, I took a (very) short job as a telemarketer once. It sucked. Nothing good about that except that it was short.

Caller ID helps a lot. It's usually not a real number, but at least I can just ignore the phone. They're easy to identify. I hate them calling- what a horrific invasion of my privacy. If I wanted your product, I would call you. I didn't. Go away. I'm usually polite, mostly, but my goal is to get them off my phone as quickly as possible. I just don't want to waste my time.

I'd leave them sitting on the table and go away, but they pay so little for the phone lines I don't even think it's worth the effort.

Fax lines- they're set up with a calling list, and it calls all night, in part because its' supposed to be calling fax machines that don't actually sleep, and they're in offices, where the people aren't. So supposedly they're not disturbing anyone. We had quite a problem with it for a while but we haven't gotten anything lately. We don't have a fax machine, which is why it's so annoying. Also, we got the phone line set up so it stops any call that doesn't identify itself. If your number is blocked or missing, it asks you who you are that is calling. If the fax machine doesn't say anything, it doesn't let the call through, though sometimes if the machine beeps at the right time the phone line thinks it's an answer and lets it through. The telemarketers don't have the access to say anything so some of those are blocked.