ah so, that's what a 'cold call' is. Well, we're lucky in that we have
a phone which shows the number of the caller, so we just don't
answer...
Doug
On 15-Apr-05, at 4:30 PM, Robin Hamilton wrote:
>> I take your point, but cold callers quickly go away as soon as, for
>> instance, you say 'not BT customer/not homeowner/"Fuck off" '.
>
> Mind you, the worst thing you can do with cold callers is pick the
> phone up
> and simply leave it off the hook while they witter on.
>
> At that, the reason I never developed a Lethal Response to cold
> callers was
> that most of the poor buggers working a call centre are so exploited,
> it's
> not true.
>
> One of my few serious dialogues with a cold caller ran:
>
> "What's a nice Irish kid like you doing working a job like that?"
>
> "The money, fucking obviously."
>
> Given that I worked the phones in the seventies, I know how to get
> round
> surveillance monitoring -- it's mostly a matter of pace -- so if I can
> be
> bothered, I *can* chat to cold callers without them being monitored.
>
> SBT
>
> Robin
>
>
Douglas Barbour
Department of English
University of Alberta
Edmonton Alberta T6G 2E5 Canada
(780) 436 3320
http://www.ualberta.ca/~dbarbour/dbhome.htm
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and heart one
ground to walk on,
field to plough.
Robert Creeley
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