Cold callers part 2

[R1Geezer]

Has anyone actually done this job? What are your experiences? how do you deal with being tild to sod off 100 times a night? It must be totally soul destroying. I mean it's all very amusing on Wizards Q below but in a moment of Geezer touchy feelyness I just thought we should examine the other side of the coin.

[ChuckFickens]

It's a horrible job to have to do, and it is very disheartening to basically be told to f ***off time and time again. it is a bit easier in the summer rather than the winter as at least people are a bit more willing to stand on a doorstep and chat when the weathers nice.

I didn't have to do it often but was expected to do canvasing a couple of times a month in my last job and hated it!!

[SKA]

I have quite a few friends who worked in a call centre like that because they needed the money. It seemed like a fun job sometimes but most of them hated it because they needed to get a certain amount of people to say yes to them.

[Octavius]

I would suspect they put all the names and numbers of people who tell them to �eff off�, onto a general national register for further random cold calling.

It�s a sort of poetic justice. To tell someone trying to make a few bob to eff off is to be hoist by one's own petard.

[jake-the-peg]

If you have done the job - what do you say to people who call you up to sell you solar panels when you're just putting the kids to bed?

[Octavius]

I haven't done the job but I would ask them for their name, home number or personal mobile and then tell them I will ring them back at 11pm when I have more time for an in-depth discussion.

[pastafreak]

When she was 18-19, my daughter worked both in a call centre, and then doing cold-calling. I think she actually thrived in it......it certainly gave her a lot of confidence! It definitely is not a job for the faint-hearted...I know I could never do it-nor would I want to.

[weggiewabbit]

It�s not a job I�d care to do. I get quite a few calls, mostly from companies I know (my bank and credit cards). This is annoying, because I�m ex-directory but they ask for your number when you set up an account.

I suppose I need a phone which shows you the caller�s number, then I could decide whether to pick it up or not.

I got a call the other day and I knew at once that it was spam ... I just put the phone down straight away without saying a word, which is what I'll do from now on..

[jake-the-peg]

Mind you if everbody was really obnoxious to cold callers maybe the companies would find it harder and harder to find people willing to do the job.

I'm always nice to call center staff I call up to complain about whatever it may be, after all they didn't personally mess up my standing order or what ever.

But don't ask me to be sympathetic to cold callers especially ones who ignore the TPS database and ring me anyway.

Next thing you'll be tellling us what a rough job drug pushers have with all the restrictions around schools

[Octavius]

What a ridiculous notion. If people refused to do jobs because it meant dealing with obnoxious people then we wouldn�t have traffic wardens or a police force.

Jumping from call centre workers to drug dealers? Sounds like you are clutching at straws to corroborate your frolicsome point.

[Octavius]

Fair enough Wazzard, no need to swear at them though, even if they are Indian or JW, eh?

[weggiewabbit]

You should invite them in and discuss the Bible with them ... it�ll stop them bothering anyone else for an hour or two.

[Octavius]

I wasn't referring to you swearing, as we all know you don't do that sort of thing!

It was germane to the original Q.

[LAW_DROP-OUT]

some people put up sma;; sighns near theier front door "no canvassers2 , not such a bad idea ,,,