i just love to hate telemarketers. i hate them so much that i keep our phone beside me and wait for their out of area numbers to pop out on the caller id screen. i then answer their call with total silence and hang up on them every chance i get. you'd think they'd get the message that you don't want anything to do with them the first time i do that, but they don't. so i try to tell them exactly just that the minute they call again, saying politely that all i wanted out of them are the call minutes that i use for whenever i call my family in davao. i would reload whenever i know that my minutes are not enough for an extensive chikahan with my sister. the operators, telemarketers, customer service personnel or whatever they call themselves in directline philippines (there i said the company!) don't have to remind me to reload.
i don't need any offers for any computers, printers, cameras, magic microphones, sacks of rice or whatever it is they're selling. i would go to bestbuy or the nearest asian food store for those things. i also have no time for people who tell me i won a vacation package to cancun mexico because i have things to think about like PTOs (paid time offs) before i jump into giving myself a holiday. also, i wasn't born yesterday to think there isn't any catch to any giveaways like that. you are talking to the most cynic person this side of the world, i mean, what were you thinking? oh and please, do not get me started with those robot sounding people looking for alejandro guerra, because I DO NOT KNOW this freaking guy!
another thing that irks me to no end is when they call and they'd get the answering machine and leave a blank voice message (he he patawa, may voice message ba na blank?). naman! that's what the answering machine is for. you hear the beep...you leave a message. if your call is that important that you have to dial our phone number every few minutes or so, then shouldn't you be leaving that important message? i'm just saying this because i'm tired of erasing forty seven million empty messages on our machine everytime. i hate that bleeping sound our phone makes telling me that the telemarketers are at it again.
i know these people are just doing their jobs. they probably don't like calling me as much as i hate getting their calls. but i am just one person among the millions of people that they bug everyday. is it too much to ask for them to effin leave me alone.
anyway, here's some funny shit from youtube. i wish i could do what this guy did. but i don't have his talent.
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you know what?some of those calls you receive is from Philippines...I know its irritating but they are just doing their jobs...some of them need to contact their families abroad just to get client because they will not be able to get the salary ranging 5,000 or below...hindi ba dapat suportahan yung mga kababayan natin sorry ah medyo irritatig din kasi yung ibang pinoy na ganto ang pananaw...but anyway each one of us has the right to comment
i don't know kasi para sa akin a no means a no. how many times do i have to say i'm not interested for them to get a clue? i am actually loyal to their company. i've used their lines to call long distance to pinas for over a year now (despite the irritating offers). how's that for support?
anyway, the calls have become lesser after i've registered our number on donotcall.gov. i don't know if it was that or they just got tired of calling an unsupportive bitch who doesn't like to go to cancun.
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