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bktheirregular) wrote2003-07-24 04:01 pm
bktheirregular) wrote2003-07-24 04:01 pm
The true reason telemarketers are evil
So I was cooking up some lunch, in a time-sensitive manner dealing with a skillet, when the phone rings. The cordless phone is hors de combat, charging up a new battery, so I have to race into the other room to grab the second extension.
Voice on the other end of the line calmly asks for my brother, and I tell them: he's at work, I've got something cooking on a skillet, it's a very bad time. Then, as an afterthought, I ask who it is.
It's his doctor's office, about the surgery he's going to have six days from now. And I almost hung up on them before I realized that.
All I could do was give them his cell number - my lunch was about to burn.
Y'see, this is the fundamental problem with telemarketers, and spam, and junk mail. The flood of drek that comes into the mailbox and the e-mail inbox and through the phone line makes it that much more likely that the important stuff is gonna get lost.
(My brother once had a habit of listening for one second when answering the phone, and then hanging up. He said that if they didn't answer in that first second, the call wasn't about anything worthwhile. Of course, this was also during the time when he thought that operating on a thirty-six hour wake/sleep cycle made sense, and don't even get me started on his views on contraband herbs...)
Grr.
Voice on the other end of the line calmly asks for my brother, and I tell them: he's at work, I've got something cooking on a skillet, it's a very bad time. Then, as an afterthought, I ask who it is.
It's his doctor's office, about the surgery he's going to have six days from now. And I almost hung up on them before I realized that.
All I could do was give them his cell number - my lunch was about to burn.
Y'see, this is the fundamental problem with telemarketers, and spam, and junk mail. The flood of drek that comes into the mailbox and the e-mail inbox and through the phone line makes it that much more likely that the important stuff is gonna get lost.
(My brother once had a habit of listening for one second when answering the phone, and then hanging up. He said that if they didn't answer in that first second, the call wasn't about anything worthwhile. Of course, this was also during the time when he thought that operating on a thirty-six hour wake/sleep cycle made sense, and don't even get me started on his views on contraband herbs...)
Grr.