Key Issues

Hang Up on Me, Will You?

No more sympathy for telemarketers.

I may be a royal pain in the ass, but at least I'm polite. I'm perhaps most polite when I simply tell telemarketers that I don't have time to fake an interest in their product, I'm even moderately polite when I ask them if they majored in telemarketing in college, and I'm at least somewhat polite when I hmm and huh over the entire spiel before laughingly telling some poor guy that I really have no need for bacteria-eating septic disks.

That's why I'm SO shocked by what just transpired.

Understand, we run our own biz here...There are three lines, and one me, and my friggin $400 multi-line cordless has crapped out on me. Sooo, when the phone rings, I curse, get up, and answer in my best I'm not annoyed voice.

A second lapses before the caller realizes I'm on the line, and I could have hung up then...but I didn't. No, I waited for the girl to ask me to take some jewelry survey. Then I went with my MOST polite, "I'm sorry, this is a business, and we really don't have time for..."

Click.

Bitch! She hung up on me! I stared at the receiver in disbelief. That was a first.

Interesting challenge. Maybe I can have some fun with the next call.

So I figure, if I have to hang up on them, score one for them...but if I can get them to hang up on me, score one for me!

I'll tally up at the end of next week. Anyone else want to play?