Stick it back to the man
Turn the tables on the next blood-sucking telemarketer that latches on to your neck through the telephone.
Use this fantastic counter script from the EGBC with exelent responses such as:
Do you have a problem answering questions to a stranger on the telephone about which you don't know the purpose?
or
I can appreciate your concern, but aren't you calling me?
Remember, every moment of a telemarketer's time you abuse is another moment that someone...somewhere gets to take a bite of their dinner in peace.
The script might not make the time leeches go away, but it should be at least a little bit entertaining.
\Link/ to the EGBC website.
Another effective way to handle telemarketers is to impersonate Hannibal Lecter from Silence of the Lambs and ask them bizarre questions and lead them on disturbing logic trains.
"Have you ever had puttanesca sauce, Dan from Sprint?"
"You know, Shawna from AOL, if I switch to your service, I will be a traitor... And do you know what the Japanese make their traitors do? Do you know what Seppuku is, Shawna?"
Posted by
Sir E. D. W. Lynch |
11:54 AM