Phone Abuse

[laura_seabrook]

Oh, and an NRMA rep called to see if I wanted to renew my road service membership.

After the obligatory "Is a Ms Laura Seabrook there? No, sorry, can I speak to Laura please." (I hate dealing with strangers on the phone) I pointed out that I no longer had a legal car to drive, she said that the call would be "monitored by her supervisor for quality purposes" and asked "if that was OK with me".

I said an definite NO! and that was that, she hung up.

Comments

[cyclops25503.livejournal.com]

Telemarketers are evil. If it makes you feel any better, a couple of weeks ago i got hammered by Telstra telemarketers :P

Then...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

...develop ways to fuck them up!

Say "Just a second, I just have to get something off the stove" and then leave the phone off the hook and turn the radio or TV up loud so that they can hear it. Then, do something else while you wait for them to hang up.

One thing telemarketers can't cope with is wasted time.

Re: Then...

[cyclops25503.livejournal.com]

Lol...i was recently thinking: I have this old Mac laptop that has Apple text to speech software on it. (you type stuff into a text editor and then you can get it to speak that text to you)...maybe i can get it to say funny messages to them? :P lol

With the Telstra ones, before putting down the phone i just yelled, out loud, "Telstra SUCKS!"

Re: Then...

[laura-seabrook.livejournal.com]

Just say that you're not the person they want, and then use the synthesiser to speak to them - pretend that that fictional person has a horrible "Stephen Hawkins" type disease.

Re: Then...

[cyclops25503.livejournal.com]

Good idea :D