[Gllug] Just had an interesting call from Microsoft

[Matt Blissett]

Marcus Taylor wrote:

> Andy Farnsworth wrote:
> 
>> Telemarketers make money by making huge numbers of phone calls and
>> selling to a very small percentage of these people.  If you hang up on
>> them immediately, there is no incentive for them to go find other work.
>> On the other hand, if you waste 10 minutes of their time, that hour is
>> completely shot for them and they won't make any money.  If enough of us
>> do this, then they should quit and go find honest work.
> 
> Reminds me of an asterisk dialplan script which I saw which just keeps
> people in loop - press 1 for x department , 2 regarding x, please hold -
> etc... :)

Role reversal -- start asking the telemarketer questions!
    http://www.xs4all.nl/~egbg/english/counters.pdf

-- 
Matt


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