I hang up on telemarketers as soon as they start their schpiel. I've worked in telemarketing, and I know the kind of shit they're getting for every sale they don't make -- being hung up on before you can get three words out looks much better to your boss than if you'd actually been able to talk to the potential customer. (If you didn't get to talk to anyone, you didn't lose the sale.)
I happen to be very biteable, pal. I'm moist and delicious.
Xander ,'Bring On The Night'
Spike's Bitches 31: We're Motivated Go-getters.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jessica - Jun 29, 2006 8:32:13 am PDT #2392 of 10001
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
JZ - Jun 29, 2006 8:34:15 am PDT #2393 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Also, she got me a gift certificate for an hour long massage
Nuh-uh! Ninety minutes, my love!
Why did none of you people ever mention it?!?
Aside from our big fat Paul Gross's Bitches love, incessant pimpage of the show and the DVD sets to anyone who would listen, and relentless cramming of all our TiVo'd episodes down the throats of anyone foolish enough to walk in the front door, I have no idea. We have so let down the team, with our S&A love that dare not speak its name.
Isn't it just like crack with the wanting more more more now now now?
brenda m - Jun 29, 2006 8:36:19 am PDT #2394 of 10001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
being hung up on before you can get three words out looks much better to your boss than if you'd actually been able to talk to the potential customer.
Plus they're not allowed to take no for an answer without keeping on with the spiel several times. So getting them out of the call fast at least means they're not wasting all that time on you.
Glamcookie - Jun 29, 2006 8:36:47 am PDT #2395 of 10001
I know my own heart and understand my fellow man. But I am made unlike anyone I have ever met. I dare to say I am like no one in the whole world. - Anne Lister
Am I alone in my anti-massage-ness? I don't want any stranger touching my bod. It would make me uncomfortable and tense, which is so not the point. Living in CA, this makes me feel like a freak sometimes (so many peeps get massages here, it's nuts).
Vortex - Jun 29, 2006 8:36:58 am PDT #2396 of 10001
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
I just wait for the pause, and say thank you , i'm not interested, please take me off of your list and hang up.
juliana - Jun 29, 2006 8:40:51 am PDT #2397 of 10001
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
OMFG I just watched the first episode of Slings and Arrows and I am so freaking in love with this show already! Why did none of you people ever mention it?!?
OMGWTFBBQ!!!!! I squeed about it back in February!!!
Aside from our big fat Paul Gross's Bitches love, incessant pimpage of the show and the DVD sets to anyone who would listen, and relentless cramming of all our TiVo'd episodes down the throats of anyone foolish enough to walk in the front door, I have no idea. We have so let down the team, with our S&A love that dare not speak its name.
Isn't it just like crack with the wanting more more more now now now?
Or, you know, what JZ said.
(Hec! JZ! Will I see you on Sunday???)
JZ - Jun 29, 2006 8:46:41 am PDT #2398 of 10001
See? I gave everybody here an opportunity to tell me what a bad person I am and nobody did, because I fuckin' rule.
Hec! JZ! Will I see you on Sunday???
Looks like no -- Emmett has a weekend-long tournament in Livermore.
My boss is on sabbatical for all of July, though, so I'm available for weekday lunches as of Monday.
eta: The DVD set's official release date was my birthday, yay!
Polter-Cow - Jun 29, 2006 8:47:52 am PDT #2399 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Aside from our big fat Paul Gross's Bitches love, incessant pimpage of the show and the DVD sets to anyone who would listen, and relentless cramming of all our TiVo'd episodes down the throats of anyone foolish enough to walk in the front door, I have no idea. We have so let down the team, with our S&A love that dare not speak its name.
I had never heard of it until everyone started talking about it around F2F time. But someone on my flist just pimped it yesterday, too. I checked it out, and why did no one mention Rachel McAdams was in it? Come on! That is an incentive right there! Plus, it does sound funny with the theatre mayhem.
sj - Jun 29, 2006 8:51:39 am PDT #2400 of 10001
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
Teacup Guy just left for his interview! He looked so handsome in his suit. Why am I more nervous than he is?
Nora Deirdre - Jun 29, 2006 8:52:36 am PDT #2401 of 10001
I’m responsible for my own happiness? I can’t even be responsible for my own breakfast! (Bojack Horseman)
because you wuv him.
(sj likes a boy! sj likes a boy!)