Telemarketing Survey

[c9]

No no! Don't hang up! I'm wondering what you do, if anything, to combat telemarketing calls in your home.

1. listen to the whole spiel, then say no as much as necessary
2. hang up once they say something to show it's telemarketing
3. hang up when nobody says "Hi!" when you answer (i.e. computer is routing call because you answered)
4. never answer the phone
5. at first opportunity, ask to be removed from call list
6. remove your number from the call list because you work at the telemarketing company
7. use complicated math equations to get them to stop bugging you
8. other

Comments

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

D. Never answer the phone. I've caller ID and if it displays some 1-800 number or anything I don't recognize I don't bother answering. I feel no guilt, if it's important they can leave me a message and I'll consider returning the call :P Plus no one ever calls me so when the phone rings I know it's more than likely not really for me.

[c9.livejournal.com]

Yeah, when we see 1-8xx-xxx-xxxx it's not going to be for us, but the ringing phone will annoy me more than answering, so I keep doing it. *sigh*

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

What the Jennifer Love Hewitt! See the ringing of the phone is the best part because it's my message to the telemarketers: "I'm letting it ring and there's nothing you can do about it!"

[c9.livejournal.com]

I hate to ruin any fun you derive, but it's just a computer calling you, no people are involved until you say hello...

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

Permit me to revise my thesis...

"'I'm letting it ring and there's nothing you can do about it.' That's me sending a message to the establishment."

Better?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Sexcellent.

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

THAT'S MY WORD!

If there's a twatwaffle in your vocabulary, it's fate...

[c9.livejournal.com]

Nope, just sexcellent. And I must protest, I was using that word while you were still in grade 9, you young whippersnapper.

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

You were going through your midlife crisis in the 80s, weren't you?

[c9.livejournal.com]

Oh hush. I'm only 29 -- I've only just completed my quarter-life crisis!(I hope)

[leapfish.livejournal.com]

Just like going to the door when you know someone is coming upstairs.

That's it! I'm now going to be using the spray bottles on you!

[c9.livejournal.com]

Exactly.

I mean no, wait, that's uhh not it at all!

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

exactly what he said.

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

Who uses the phone anyway? I read this great piece one time set with the premise that computers and e-mail came first, and then the telephone was invented, "Look, honey, with the phone you can now hear the person you're talking with! What will they think of next."

I like your tattoo, btw..

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

right!

and i suppose i have to show the others now...
http://jdhorner.homeip.net:8080/LJ/tats/tats.html

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

CAPRICORN!!! Awesomeness. I've been thinking about getting a tattoo, preferably on my forearm but that might be a little too radical for the office.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

thanks. :-D

within the next two months i believe that i will be getting my fourth and fifth tattoos.

and btw: what exactly on your arm?

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

Haven't decided what yet. I like John Mayer's idea with the three boxes taking up about half his forearm, he's got some filled in and empty spaces that can be filled in later. I'd get that but I'd look like I copied him, one of those "if I had come up with that I would have done it" things. My big thing is that it has to be easily covered - the forearm if tastefully done makes a good statement I think - also thought about a calve or shoulder.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

;-)

it seems as though you've thought more about -where- than -what-. i find the latter more important in the end.

regardless, you can check out http://www.bmezine.com/tattoo/bme-tatt.html if you're looking for more ideas.

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

It takes a while to make a decision. You think that's bad, you should see me try to order lunch.

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

yeah -- i've been thinking about the two that i want next for a little over a year now. of course, if that had been lunch, i'd be dead.

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

LOL! Might I suggest you get wiseass across your forehead?

[jdhorner.livejournal.com]

how did you know?!?

[msvu20.livejournal.com]

Lucky guess, wiseass. Hey, it's a capricorn trait.