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From: andrew@orca.UUCP (Andrew Klossner)
Newsgroups: net.consumers
Subject: Re: Telephone mailing lists
Message-ID: <1876@orca.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 7-Nov-85 20:08:03 EST
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Posted: Thu Nov  7 20:08:03 1985
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Organization: Tektronix, Wilsonville OR
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> My wife works night about three times a week.
> When she doesn't she does telephone surveys for a marketing research
> company. She announces herself, what she would like the callee to do,
> which is watch a tv program, and say that someone would call the next
> day to get their response.
>
> The whole bit takes 30 seconds. 30 SECONDS. Usually she gets about 5
> people to agree and maybe 3 watch. $3 bucks a person. Works about from
> 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. for $9. (would you do it?).
>
> We have three kids all under 5 and no twins and the last thing she needs
> is some smart ass playing kid games.

My Uncle Lenny also has a hard time finding work.  To put food on the
table, he had to take a job as an enforcer for a downtown loan shark.
It's not so bad, really ... he enters a deadbeat's home or place of
business, announces himself, what he would like the client to do,
spends no more than two or three minutes roughing the fellow up, then
leaves after saying that someone would call later in the week to get
their response.  It really upsets him when the client resists; Uncle
Lenny is on a tight schedule (he's paid by the number of broken bones)
and the last thing he needs is some smartass playing games.

:-)   (for the gullible)

I don't care how polite a junk phone caller is, or how little of my
time they want to take, or how worthwhile their concern is, or how
badly they need the money.  If they interrupt me in the privacy of my
home (ever notice that it's almost always during dinner?), they deserve
only contempt.

I experimented with a number of schemes, but now, as soon as I
determine that it's a junk phone call, I hang up.  I don't slam down
the phone, I don't say anything (rude or otherwise); I just minimize
the instrusion.  Fortunately Oregon has a law requiring all junk
callers to identify their purpose within the first thirty seconds.

  -=- Andrew Klossner   (decvax!tektronix!tekecs!andrew)       [UUCP]
                        (tekecs!andrew.tektronix@csnet-relay)  [ARPA]