Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for August 31, 2024

In these treacherous modern times, a conscience seems to be far more rare than mere unicorns….,

If we ever have a conscience vote in parliament again, a lot of members will need to have the idea explained to them.

Get used to modern marketing. They’ll sing the praises of the product’s virtues to the heavens, accompanied by pictures of smiling people engaging in fun activities under cloudless skies, backed by cheerful, uplifting music, then cram 50 awful side effects into tiny print read in 5 seconds by someone with a post-doc from Evelyn Wood and an apprenticeship under John Moschitta.

I thought a conscience was only considered an OSHA liability for politicians and lawyers.

I could have been super wealthy this week. I got an email telling me we won a class action lawsuit. I knew of it…but nothing about it. Got an email last night telling me of my pay off. $0.43, my conscience wouldn’t allow me to accept it!

You must always follow your conscience, but you must always know where you’re going. So you can’t follow your conscience. Cause it may not be going the same way you are.

The ads from Vegsas show the ten people leaving in a limousine, they don´t show they ninety people who leave in a greyhound because they have lost their car.

If you’ve ever tried to make cold calls (phone or in person) then you know this is a MUCH tougher job than non-sales folks can possibly understand. Though I guess if you have no conscience, then you’re not constrained about what kind of BS you’re selling.

Oh, dear, never mind.

“We’ve been trying to reach you about your auto’s extended warranty!”

Good timing! Members of my family were up North this past week. One rainy evening we all sat around talking about what foods we no longer will buy due to the ingredients and side effects. That led to FDA alerts about food recalls and deaths. That morphed into the connections between the obesity epidemic and our symptom/for profit health care system and better alternatives. I had trouble going to sleep that night.

How about that National Do Not Call List?

I went to google translate to learn how to something in Hindi to the scammers that claim to be “from my TV service”.It’s Bhaad mein jai dalit. F off you Dalit, the untouchable caste in India, a real insult to anyone from another caste.I haven’t had any of those in the days since I learned it.

I built a telemarketing setup for one employer. There were two-line phones and one-line phones, and a great deal of screeching by the one-liners. One guy tried swapping his phone for a two-line. He then complained his phone didn’t work. The phone switch id’d each phone on each line and moving them caused them to fail. I switched them back and told him to talk to his manager. I also talked to his manager and never had any more problems with the phones.

groan…

I always read the warnings that come with a new prescription. My doctor apparently does not. He was offended when I told him he had prescribed a medication which, according to all the warnings and side effects, I should never use.

Oh, poor poor baby — not!

I used to hate telemarketers, but then I realized they have one of the worst jobs in the world. Then their jobs got outsourced overseas, and now it’s all done by computers.

Coordinated with today’s Speed Bump?

I always remind myself that it isn’t the fault of the salesperson on the phone. They’re doing the only job they could get, it’s miserable, everybody you call hates you, and you don’t even make enough to pay the rent.

The people in charge of the telemarketing company, on the other hand, are total trash.

Yes Ken, I would like words that will never come out of Donald Trumps mouth for 1000.

Apparently consciousness and a working finger is all that is required in my state to be ineligible for disability payments because of all the remote possibilities for employment

Wiley, i am an avid fan as others here are, this is a repeat with a different profession. Last time you used an attorney.

The advertising business thinks that all humans are stupid. We have proved them… right. Sigh.

Sounds like a time share salesperson

He sure wasn’t the dude that did car repair insurance!!!

Maybe he will just have to find honest work.

If you grew a conscience you wouldn’t go on disability.

There’s a support pet for that … but it’s a cricket.

Jumping Jiminy!

That may be contagious; move away quickly.

Conscientiousness is a rarity these days.

With a full conscience, there’s nothing you can do for a living under capitalism.

Why does the guy on the right want to leave? Seems like he would prefer to be around a decent guy.

Good thing, otherwise Jason Statham might have paid him a visit

That’s really bad. He’s disqualified from all the sorts of jobs he knows how to do. So sad when a sociopath molts into a human being.

Yeah, I hate it when that happens! ;-)

If your hear something that sounds like “POIT” at the beginning of a phone call,hang up immediately