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Originally Posted by altworld
A little harsh don't you think? An example of one bad side of the internet in this post, me thinks.
You want me deported for taking a job and not living off welfare? Did I steal some of your money or something? Been here 10 years and paid taxes for 10 years 
I worked a temporary job for a crappy company, to pay my way, to support my wife and child. I hated every moment of it and it was a total waste of my hard earned education. I was nice, polite, took people off the lists to see them get put back on again.
I did all this for two months while waiting out applications for jobs in the field I actually do work in. Certainly been a very productive member of this society without being an dick about it.
My message was simple, remember the person on the phone is just doing his job and frankly it is not worth your time to get mad at them. Simply just be nice and the calls go away. Does wonders for your blood pressure too 
Apart from the oversea calling mills, 90% of the Telemarketers workers in the USA are either females or students. Is it really worth busting them to make yourself feel big?
Ever onwards, getting bent out of shape to this degree in your post is jsut not worth it.
Right, got some writing to do.
Arigato,
Nick Davis |
If you came to this country unable to support yourself and your family without going on welfare or disturbing people at home, then you should have not been allowed here in the first place or, if you managed to get into that situation once here, you should have been deported.
You were on a job that you knew annoyed many people and knew your employer returned people to the calling lists even after requesting to be removed from them and you still feel there was nothing wrong with it? Even if someone was naive enough to believe there was nothing obnoxious about telemarketing before taking the job, that someone would either have to be a total idiot to not figure it out before long or completely uncaring about the people's lives that person was disrupting.
Yes, telemarketers STEAL people's time. It doesn't matter how short an amount of time it is; it still interrupts whatever a person was doing at the time. Multiply that by several calls from several telemarketers (survey takers, political callers, whatever) and it adds up to a significant anount of time. For every person who reacted to you in a negative manner, several more were too polite to tell you how they really felt. You invaded, via telephone, without being invited, people's homes for your selfish purposes. Even if it was to support a family, it was still for your own benefit with no regard for the people you called. Yes, the telemarketing companies are scum but so are the people that work for them.
The complaint that the one doing the calling is a person and should be treated with respect. What about the peope being called? Do they not have a right to have their lives uninterrupted?
People do not pay to have phones for the purpose having strangers use those phones for their own purposes. People get phones so they can call people they want or need to talk to and to receive calls from those people. Anyone who calls a phone they did not pay for, even though the owner of the phone is not charged for the call, without authorization for their own purposes is a thief. Nor should anyone have to pay for call blocking to prevent authorized use of their phone.
I used to work third shift and had to sleep during the day. I had no trouble getting to sleep initially but if something woke me up during the time I was sleeping, it took me a while to get back to sleep. This used to happen several times a week, despite being on the Do Not Call list (the list is a joke because the telemarketing companies have figured out how to beat it). I couldn't turn off the phone because I might receive a call from my elderly parents or a friend (all of whom knew my schedule and would not call when I was asleep unless it was an emergency). Screening calls involves either walking to my phone to see who called or listening to the message to see who is calling ('tis funny how telemarketers do not leave messages). I still had to interrupt my life to deal with the call (and, sadly, the cowardly telemarketers usually block their calls).
Junk mail I can toss at a time of my own choosing. Spam (what little I get) I can delete at a time of my own choosing. I don't object to ads in magazines or on TV and radio because they pay for the content I'm reading or viewing, sometimes are entertaining, and do inform me of new products and services. I am also able to choose when I read or view TV and if I want to read or listen to the ad. Internet page ads are the same (with the exception of the obnoxious ads that employ popups, etc. that defeat my popup blocker).
I have to be very careful to whom I give my phone number, even if the recipient may have a legitimate use for it, because of the danger that my number will be then be sold for use by telemarketers. When I do get unauthorized calls, I do not scream at anyone abusing my phone. I do not curse at them and play silly games. I tell them slowly and firmly I do not apopreciate the unauthorized abuse of my phone and time and to never, EVER, call me again. If I get repeat calls, then I find on the internet how to contact the company (or politician) directly to deal with it. I've managed to almost eliminate the unwanted calls that way but I should never have been put into the situation of having to do so in the first place. If I do not give them my phone number, then they should not use it.
I still challenge you to provide us with your home phone number so we can intrude on your life.