You do know that these poor people are just trying to earn a living. Often they are young students trying to fund college or Uni.
I used to work in HR in a call centre and would have been furious had a member of staff had to deal with this - they really do take enough crap!
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By *ocknrollerMan
over a year ago
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"You do know that these poor people are just trying to earn a living. Often they are young students trying to fund college or Uni.
I used to work in HR in a call centre and would have been furious had a member of staff had to deal with this - they really do take enough crap!
Shy "
you're right I do know that, the problem was, I had been running about like a mad man all day and had to get my wee brother to his hospital appointment, ready to leave got the wee mans jacket on and the phone goes and he's trying to sell me insulation through some new government blah blah, which im not actually entitled to anyway (had this call before). When I said thanks but I'm not interested, and dont have the time for the call he got really rude and bitchy and told me I was full of crap.
I take my fair share of crap and then some, and work a lot harder than a cold caller to earn my living
Trust me, he got off lightly with "fuck off" |
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".... Anyone get the urge to start talking dirty or make sexual remarks when a call centre phones you , see how they react ??"
Well, I know that I don't - and I'm hoping that no-one else does. Both the Telecommunications Act - and how your Mum brought you up should tell you that kind of behaviour isn't acceptable.
As to the presentation of the question - Two question marks - unacceptable. Corrupted punctuation marks to make pictorial smiley face - unacceptable. Notion - unacceptable.
PS - Not at all welcoming / accepting of cold calls - but no need to violate callers. |
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"haha, flash back to english class at school..  "
If only you had paid more attention - and attended some moral / philosophical enquiry classes too! Never mind - you're young - and there's hope...I'd insert a smiley face emoticon here - but I'd rather kill myself! Cheers. |
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over a year ago
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"haha, flash back to english class at school..
If only you had paid more attention - and attended some moral / philosophical enquiry classes too! Never mind - you're young - and there's hope...I'd insert a smiley face emoticon here - but I'd rather kill myself! Cheers."
haha, dont worry, I got an A, and yes had the moral classes too. I'm no dummy. Was having a bad day in a bad week and he pissed me off, happens to the best of us. I bet its happened to you too. |
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"You do know that these poor people are just trying to earn a living. Often they are young students trying to fund college or Uni.
I used to work in HR in a call centre and would have been furious had a member of staff had to deal with this - they really do take enough crap!
Shy "
some would say they dont get enough crap around 3 calls a day some idiot trying to sell me this or that or wanting me to do a quick survey or the injury you had recently......and im on telephone prefrence service!!!! I get they are trying to make a crust but how they do it is nothing more than abuse |
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"haha, flash back to english class at school..
If only you had paid more attention - and attended some moral / philosophical enquiry classes too! Never mind - you're young - and there's hope...I'd insert a smiley face emoticon here - but I'd rather kill myself! Cheers.
haha, dont worry, I got an A, and yes had the moral classes too. I'm no dummy. Was having a bad day in a bad week and he pissed me off, happens to the best of us. I bet its happened to you too."
I'm not at all tolerant of cold calls - especially when people tell me that I've won a competition that I didn't enter!
If there's a delay when I lift the 'phone - I hang up.
I know we've all got to earn a living - and much as I'm sure this isn't an easy way - I hate uninvited/unwelcome calls.
My difficulty here is with the OP's notion that there's entertainment to be had in abusing the callers - There isn't.
We both seem to have a healthy enough understanding of the dialogue/dichotomy of these calls - as to the OP - Well, I'm not so sure... |
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".... Anyone get the urge to start talking dirty or make sexual remarks when a call centre phones you , see how they react ??
Well, I know that I don't - and I'm hoping that no-one else does. Both the Telecommunications Act - and how your Mum brought you up should tell you that kind of behaviour isn't acceptable.
As to the presentation of the question - Two question marks - unacceptable. Corrupted punctuation marks to make pictorial smiley face - unacceptable. Notion - unacceptable.
PS - Not at all welcoming / accepting of cold calls - but no need to violate callers."
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But I'm nice to cold callers....go on, do a smiley! You know you want to!  |
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There are 2 types of cold callers the first is the honest ones who say who they are, what they want and politely end the call when told thanks but no thanks. I dont have a problem with them and often have a friendly chat.
The others are the problem you know them the liars are you Mr so and so no sorry our mistake are you the home owner or we have a special offer for you etc. You try and politely tell them your not interested and they either get shirty, continue spouting their script or see you as a syco challange to force their will onto you. Most of them know they're trying to rip you off sometime to the tune of thousands they are the ones that anoy me. If i am not busy I just let go on and hold them up for as long as possible nothing anoys them more than spending time and getting nothing back.
It can be easy to get annoyed but you can get reported for abusive lanuage but not for wasting their time lol.
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Had to phone a call centre recently, and after speaking to the call handler they advised they'd need to call another call centre, whilst they put me on hold.
So after waiting a good few minutes he gets back to me and says they've got him on hold, I replied, hope the music they've got you listening to is better than the music you've got me listening to.
Also says to him what if the call centre your calling are also on hold to another call centre and so on...are we in a kind of infinite regress, damned to perdition, listening to greensleves, played badly on a out of tune stylophone, for all eternity...he didn't get my point and I had to hang up and call back a day or two later...just sayin'  x |
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By *976scottMan
over a year ago
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I hate cold calling and before anyone says they are just trying to make a living I am fully aware of that!
But as anyone who works shifts and anti social hours will testify too there is nothing worse than getting woken up by someone selling solar panels in winter or PPI! It's hard to be nice to them at this point however I try to be polite!
Feck off rather than Fu**! Joking
It's the recorded ones that really piss me off! Rant over! |
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Sometimes they are just trying to help . I call people when they already have a policy with us so its technically not cold calling lol .... Hate rude people , a polite " im not interested " .... But after theyve actually fucking listened would be nice lol |
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".... Anyone get the urge to start talking dirty or make sexual remarks when a call centre phones you , see how they react ??
Well, I know that I don't - and I'm hoping that no-one else does. Both the Telecommunications Act - and how your Mum brought you up should tell you that kind of behaviour isn't acceptable.
As to the presentation of the question - Two question marks - unacceptable. Corrupted punctuation marks to make pictorial smiley face - unacceptable. Notion - unacceptable.
PS - Not at all welcoming / accepting of cold calls - but no need to violate callers.
??????????
But I'm nice to cold callers....go on, do a smiley! You know you want to! "
Had a look for the, 'I'd rather eat my own intestines', emoticon, but couldn't find it! |
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You do know that a lot of call centre staff are actually quite dirty, I used to work in one and the disabled bogs were a hot spot .... And there wasn't that many disabled people employed in the call centre  |
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"I used to work in a call centre and we used to play the game of see who can throw the naughtiest phrase in to the call lol "
.....and is that why you used to work there lol sorry could not resist it. |
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Like many others we receive and detest these cold calls.
We received one last week from a company for the 6th time offering everything from a boiler to insulation. I decided fuck it and let them make an appointment for 6.30pm. A man arrived in the pissing rain to whom I said we weren't interested. He said I was a "fuckin timewasters" to which I agreed and said he might now realise how much of our time his company had wasted.
Surprisingly we've never had another call from them.
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"Like many others we receive and detest these cold calls.
We received one last week from a company for the 6th time offering everything from a boiler to insulation. I decided fuck it and let them make an appointment for 6.30pm. A man arrived in the pissing rain to whom I said we weren't interested. He said I was a "fuckin timewasters" to which I agreed and said he might now realise how much of our time his company had wasted.
Surprisingly we've never had another call from them.
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