[PLUG-TALK] What to do when the telemarketer calls

[Paul Johnson]

On Monday April 11 2005 12:55 pm, Rich Shepard wrote:
>    However, there are occasions when some telemarketer calls anyway
> (usually on the business line and during the day). I generally hang
> up on them, but the following link has a great script to reverse
> the roles:
>
>                 <http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/counterscript.html>

My method works better.  Please note that you won't find me in the 
phone book or find anything other than an email address below my name 
in the employee roster where work because I do not maintain a phone.  
My philosophy is if you're too damn busy to see me in person, I'm too 
busy to talk to you right now, distance be damned; I take personal 
offense at getting pre-empted by a telephone in a non-business 
setting and consider dealing with the phone to be the absolute worst 
part of any business setting.  Given that more people are hurt or 
killed by people driving while on the phone than people who drive 
under the influence of anything these days, it's time that the state 
impound the vehicle and suspend the license of any driver for a year 
for talking on the phone while operating a vehicle and revoke it for 
life on the second.

In any case, email me, IM me, or even find me on the 11-meter radio[1] 
instead and I'll get around to you in less time most people take in 
returning a phone call if I'm free.  If you don't get a nearly 
immediate answer, I'm probably busy doing something I either need to 
be doing or want to be doing far more than being tied to a wall by a 
disembodied voice on the other end of a wet string.

[1] More entertaining than commercial radio, no serious time pressure 
to respond even if you're talking to someone (driver-friendly), 

-- 
Paul Johnson
Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): baloo at ursine.ca
http://ursine.ca/~baloo/
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