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BlackPhx -> RE: Telemarketer nightmare.. (8/4/2008 3:01:31 PM)
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There are all sorts of telemarketing jobs, not all of them selling timeshares or drek. Time Life books, videos and music have been sold by telemarketing for years as have certain types of cookbooks and encyclopedias. Some you call, some call you, but either way, telemarketing is a hard job that requires you to have thick skin and an ability to face constant rejection. It is also an extremely flexible job as far as hours and schedules go, letting you work around aging parents, raising kids, a primary job, and will accept as employees anyone who can wear a head set and speak clearly including the 75 year old trying to stretch social security, amputees and those who have physical challenges that make the general public uncomfortable such as burn victims. There just aren't enough back office jobs available. A friend of mine is an excellent employee who has a service dog. He was downsized at his last position and is having a great deal of trouble finding employment that will allow him to have his service dog, even though it is illegal to discriminate because he has to have one. Trust me employers will find many reasons not to hire you including another applicant was better when you have a service dog. Sooooo telemarketing is a good probability for him. Telemarketing firms don't care as long as you can come in and do your job.
I don't like telemarketing, did it in the past to feed my kids, and use the don't call list to keep them out of my life. Of course that doesn't stop places that we do business with doing marketing calls, like the bank. Tom Mabe can get on that list just as easy, so can anyone.
The first one was mildly funny..not a big fan of non-consensual pranks, but the second was cruel and should have landed Mabe with a Cop on his door. Most telemarketers will alert the police if there is someone in distress or threatening suicide, and it is easy for them to do as they have not only your phone number on the screen, but your name, and current address. Cops don't like pranks that call them away from serious police business..and this one could have.
sighing but not laughing
poenkitten
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