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- Path: sparky!uunet!olivea!sun-barr!ames!ads.com!henry
- From: henry@ADS.COM (Henry Mensch)
- Newsgroups: ba.general
- Subject: Re: Phone Solicitation (was Re: San Jose Mercury News and San Francisco Chronicle)
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.184817.19915@ads.com>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 18:48:17 GMT
- References: <qhdmw1q.shannah@netcom.com> <1992Jul21.171455.27663@news.arc.nasa.gov> <1992Jul21.192515.10699@kpc.com>
- Sender: usenet@ads.com (USENET News)
- Distribution: ba
- Organization: Advanced Decision Systems; a div of Booz, Allen & Hamilton
- Lines: 23
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- hollasch@kpc.com (Steve Hollasch) wrote:
- ->| for whatever reason, I say very politely, "no thanks",
- ->| and hang up. Do not even pause to listen to there response to
- ->| your "no thanks".
- ->
- -> No! The sooner you terminate the call, the sooner they go right on to
- ->the next person. Remember that one of their primary goals is to reach as
- ->many people as possible, and remember that they are the *enemy*.
-
- bzzt!
-
- you've presumed that my time and resources are not best spent
- elsewhere.
-
- you've presumed wrong.
-
- -> My main purpose when dealing with phone solicitation is to take as
- ->much of their time as possible.
-
- which, in turn, requires my time. bad idea.
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- # henry mensch / booz, allen & hamilton, inc. / <henry@ads.com>
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