Any of you guys have any funny experiences with them? I just got a job as one selling Bank Of America credit cards. If ya get a call about one it just might be me. I'll keep a running tally of how many hangups and how many tell me to fuck off, it should be fun.

i usually just hang up on them. no offense. i think it would be pretty funny for you to keep a running tally on the responses you get and post them here.

and dont call me, i already have a bank of america card

Do you still have a soul?

yeah i sold credit cards too when i was a telemarketer. i was pretty good at it too, but its incredibly boring

i usually do 1 of 3 things ~
1. i say hello & hang up
2. i say hello & start speaking in spanish
3. i say hello & let them start talking & then BLAST the phone w/ some loud ass music....Lukin works well....

when I was little I'd tell telemarketers that my parents were tied up down in the basement and i'd ask them to wait while i went to untie them.

nowadays I just pretend like i don't understand english or something.

i worked as one, but not credit cards or anything, but people who wanted to hear about guardian home security. so it wasnt as bad as it could have been, but i freaked the hell out of my boss one day.

as im sure any of you know, you have a script you have to read from.

Hi ________ my name is ________ and i would like to tell you about the wonderful insurance advantages you will get with the guardian home..blah blah blah

well, before i could even start my script, the guy answers the phone, and my boss is standing right next to me. he says, hey baby, i missed you today. i said to him, i missed you too...what are you wearing?

he cracked up when he realised i wasnt who he thought i was, and my boss literally dropped a kitten from her ass.

I hate telamarketers, but at the same time I feel sorry for them. That would have to be one of the shitiest jobs out there!

how do you get a job doing this?

If I get a number on my caller id that I don't know, usually I'll either

A) Just let it be, or
B) Answer it and say "BUMBLEBEE TUNA".

i used to tell telemarketers that my parents were dead. this may make me a bad person. oh well.

If I had a phone and you called my house, I'd be sure to make you want to quit telemarketing.

I just argue with them. I tell them they've failed to convince me that I am in need of their product in any way. When they say "free trial" or something like that, I say I still have to go to the mailbox and whatnot, so they've got to come up with a reason it benefits me personally. I guess the reason it's fun to do is because they think they are getting somewhere with the sale, but I'm really just wasting their time.

i always wondered this too..i see ads in the paper sometimes, but how do they evaluate you for the job?

I don't think they have high qualifications, just some previous work experience desired (at least fast food or something), and they'll interview you to make sure you wouldn't be ridiculously awful with the phone.

There is actaully a whole training process you have to go through, I havent been on the phones yet. We have just been learning about the product and started to learn today how to pitch the credit card to the customer. Everything is all on computers the entire script we have to say and everything. Boring or not I need some cash in my pocket so I really dont care.

i'm getting so sick of telemarketers. they keep ringing saying they're going to reduce my phone bill (which i don't pay anyway) or to tell me that my number has been selected to win a phone. horseshit. i've reached the point where i just want to mess with them. any suggestions?

Pretend you're a terrorist expecting a call from your bomb dealer.

i'll totally do that in the hope that the federal police knock on my door. really