Real Life Adventures by Gary Wise and Lance Aldrich for August 04, 2011
August 03, 2011
August 05, 2011
Transcript:
Phone: Hello, Larry? Man: Uh, do I know you? Phone: Well, Larry, I think you'll want to, because I can lower the rate on your credit cards. Man: Gosh, since we're on a first name basis, do you mind if I call you #$*%*#%?
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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.