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In fairness, I could vaguely mumble at the phone without being overly distracted from my work
by aroch 13y ago
In fairness, I could vaguely mumble at the phone without being overly distracted from my work
- mistercow 13y agoYou'd need to pay enough attention not to agree to anything.
- aroch 13y ago"Tell me more" ..... "I'm not sure I get it?" ..... "How much does this cost?" .... "Could you go over the benefits again?" .... "You have me convinced, I don't want it. Bye."
- muyuu 13y ago"Tell me more about X" then leave the phone on the table. They take surprisingly long to hang up.
- cpeterso 13y agoI had a summer job as a telemarketer and learned some of the inside tricks. They maintain two "call back later" lists. If no one answers the phone, the number is put on a "call back next week" list. If someone answers but says they're not interested, their number is put on a "call back in six months" list. If the person is very rude, some telemarketers would put the number on the "call back next week" list just to annoy the person. So the lesson is don't be rude.
- muyuu 13y agoIt's not quite the lesson if you're making money on simply leaving the phone on the table while you go about your stuff.
- vidarh 13y agoFrankly, if someone pisses me off enough to want me to be rude to them, I'd happily continue to be rude to them every week safe in the knowledge that I will contribute to increasing their employee churn and drive up their costs accordingly.
- mistercow 13y agoYou might be able to keep them longer with a long recording of yourself saying "hmm... right... I see... wait could you repeat that, you cut out for a second... oh, I understand" and so on.
- Zigurd 13y agoIdeal use for soundboard apps.
- mistercow 13y agoCombine with speech recognition for extra fun.
- AznHisoka 13y ago"So would you like me to explain the benefits?" YEP, go ahead "Would you want me to explain who uses it?" YEP, go ahead. "Would you want me to charge your CC right now?" YEP, go ahead.. Wwait... what?
- bitJericho 13y agohttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33BCEPMGggU http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33BCEPMGggU
- jordanthoms 13y agohttp://www.linuxsystems.com.au/astycrapper/index.html http://www.linuxsystems.com.au/astycrapper/index.html - An Asterix plugin which waits untl they stop talking, then says a random phrase. You don't even have to be on the phone :)