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- Path: sparky!uunet!think.com!ames!olivea!gossip.pyramid.com!pyramid!lstowell
- From: lstowell@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Newsgroups: misc.consumers
- Subject: Re: The other side of the coin (Re: Revenge on a Telemarketer - the Sequel (Long Post))
- Message-ID: <184162@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 6 Nov 92 20:53:26 GMT
- Sender: daemon@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: lstowell@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Lon Stowell)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 61
-
- In article <l^#@byu.edu> $stephan@sasb (Stephan Fassmann, Software) writes:
- >
- >I just found this group and went through some of the messages about the
- >telemarketers at random and I saw none stating the telemarketers side. Maybe
- >this will be an interesting side to look at. My wife is a telemarketer, and
- >I will warn her about some the the things people plan to do. But more to the
- >point, she has graduated with an elementary education degree and can't get a
- >job at the moment. She isn't dumb and neither are the people she works
- >with but bills must be paid. After 4 months she lowered her standards to get
- >one of the plentiful telemarketing jobs mainly because we needed the income.
-
- [The rest of this tale of woe which attempts to justify
- harassing innocent victims has been deleted...]
-
- Sorry, but if your wife is rude enough to invade my privacy
- and bother me, then I really have a hard time with your
- attitude that YOUR problems are automatically MY problems just
- because that's all she educated herself for.
-
- I have seen similar tales of woe used to justify a life of
- prostitution, drug dealing, AMWAY selling, burglary, etc. I could
- care less if someone chooses these professions, JUST AS LONG
- AS THEY DON"T GET THE MISTAKEN ASSUMPTION that this gives them
- any right to bother ME with solicitations, burglaries, etc.
-
-
- >In the univercity newspaper there are about 12 advertizements for
- >telemarketing jobs, they are plentiful and even if they pay minimum wage it
- >is certainly better then nothing.
-
- Do the crime, pay the time. Your wife chose a highly
- unpopular profession. Did either of you ever stop to think
- about the innocent victims either of you are harassing with
- this profession?
-
- Basically you better expect that I will show you all the
- courtesy you have just shown me when you've awoken me after a
- nights work, interrupted my dinner, etc. etc. etc.
-
- >Please remember telemarketers aren't evil,
-
- Maybe not, but they sure are annoying.
-
- >Most have orders to wait for the third no,
-
- "Befehl ist befehl" huh?
-
-
- Hurting them will never stop
-
- >stopped sue the companies, hurting someone who is trying to survive is mean,
- >and un-Christian. Maybe this will cause you to think about the other side of
- >the coin before you do something uncharitible.
- >
- Hey, I don't harass or otherwise try to bother pavement
- princesses, but at least they have the decency to NOT harass
- me either. Your self-pitying telemarketer lacks the decency of
- a hooker.
-
- Why don't YOU look at the other side of the coin before you
- pick up the !@#$!@#$ phone and bother me?
-