Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 04, 2011

Amen to that! That National “Do Not Call List” has proved to be practically worthless.No enforcement, I assume.

no what you do is when they say how are you you start telling them about a bunch of illnesses, bad bowel movements, and describing in detail the festering sores you have soon they hang up and for some reason they do not call anymore

The last time I got a call like this, I let the guy go on and on and on, then told him I didn’t hav any credit cards and that I was deliberately wasting his time so that his customer quota wouldn’t be met.

I had a school recruiter (one of many) call me and when I told her I had to be somewhere soon,she actually asked me where was I going! I wanted to reach out and throttle the b*tch!

I have learned that if the caller ID is not a number within your local area code(s), it is probably a telemarketer and I simply do not answer the call.

I work part time for a Marketing Research Company, The calls are made at random by a computer. the calls are made to different time zones so most of the time we don’t know what time zone we are calling (AND not everyone eats at the SAME time). If you ignore the call it will be entered as “no answer” and be called again at a later time or day. The reason for no phone number being displayed in the caller I.D. is that most calls are made from a call center and there is no way of handling any in coming calls.

The “Do Not Call List” DOES NOTapply to marketing reasearch companies, since they are NOT selling anything. If you don’t want them to call you back just ask them to take you off their calling list. They HAVE to take you off if you ask to be put on THIER Do Not Call list, then you won’t be called back byTHEM (while other marketing research companies can still call you).

Before I started this job I used to just pick up the phone and immediately hang up thinking that would stop the call, it doesn’t.

And please be polite, don’t be rude or use fowl language, we are just doing our job trying to make a little extra money.

Thanks from a 65+ y.o. retiree.

I realize it’s probably worthless, but going off obscenely on robocalls gives me a sense of satisfaction. Particularly when they’re from my cretin congressman Joe “Liar” Wilson who loves robocalling inordinately and has the brain of a sand gnat, He’s also enamored of large format postcards filled with so much bile, mendaciousness and hypocrisy, they’d work as well as ipecac as an emetic in case of accidental poisoning.

I don’t get many of those calls anymore, thank goodness. Now if I can just figure out how to get them to stop sending me stuff in the mail! (I consider e-mail spam a lost cause)

comicnut: “fowl language”? Now there’s a thought. Just cackle, gobble, honk, or quack. That will stump them.

OK, so maybe that’s a lost caws.

Marketing Research works for people who do sell things. They want to pick our brains so that they can sell more of their stuff to us.