Date: Fri, 30 Oct 92 16:52:37 MST
Newsgroups: misc.consumers
From: $stephan@sasb (Stephan Fassmann, Software)
Subject: The other side of the coin (Re: Revenge on a Telemarketer - the Sequel (Long Post))
Organization: BYU

In article <1992Oct30.152504.22444@col.hp.com> lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson) writes:
>From: lpj@col.hp.com (Laura Johnson)
>Subject: Re: Revenge on a Telemarketer - the Sequel (Long Post)
>Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1992 15:25:04 GMT
>J.T._August@ultramac.uucp writes:
>> Once, I received a call from a telemarketer selling aluminum siding.  I told
>> her "You don't do your homework, do you?"  "What do you mean?" "Your calling a
>> brick home."  "Oh, well sir, we offer siding geared especially towards brick .
>> . . . "
>>  
>> She just didn't get it. 
>>  
>> John August
>> starsabre@oui
>> 
>
>If they did their homework, they wouldn't be all the time calling renters.
>-- 
>Laura Johnson
>lpj@hpctdls.col.hp.com
>Opinions expressed are my own, but may be licensed for a nominal fee.

I just found this group and went through some of the messages about the 
telemarketers at random and I saw none stating the telemarketers side. Maybe 
this will be an interesting side to look at. My wife is a telemarketer, and 
I will warn her about some the the things people plan to do. But more to the 
point, she has graduated with an elementary education degree and can't get a 
job at the moment. She isn't dumb and neither are the people she works 
with but bills must be paid. After 4 months she lowered her standards to get 
one of the plentiful telemarketing jobs mainly because we needed the income. 
She hates this job as does the six other people who she works with, the only 
one who is liking this job is the supervisor, but then he never has to pick 
up the phone. The turnover rate is incredible, four of the people have left 
after three weeks to a month. The work is monotonous, dull, and occasionly 
very frustrating, but it helps to pay the bills. Almost all the workers are 
trying to find a better job, this isn't universal but here in college most 
people I know have done telemarketing to just pay the next bill. These 
people are pions in the lowest sense, it is a hopeless kind of a job, in no 
way can it be called a career. If what they are doing is a scam, they can't 
care, if the BBB says it's okay that's all we can do to check out the place. 
In the univercity newspaper there are about 12 advertizements for 
telemarketing jobs, they are plentiful and even if they pay minimum wage it 
is certainly better then nothing. Please remember telemarketers aren't evil, 
some are, most don't care what they sell, and some are desperate for the 
money. Most have orders to wait for the third no, say no three times and 
hang up and they'll breathe a sigh of relief. Hurting them will never stop 
the calls because they change staff commpletly 6-12 times a year, they'll 
never remember you, the only one to remember you will be the one who is hurt 
and they don't even know who you are, or why you hurt them. If you what them 
stopped sue the companies, hurting someone who is trying to survive is mean, 
and un-Christian. Maybe this will cause you to think about the other side of 
the coin before you do something uncharitible.

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