{"id":553,"date":"2004-09-30T13:56:53","date_gmt":"2004-09-30T21:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chriscorrigan.com\/blogs\/?p=553"},"modified":"2004-09-30T13:56:53","modified_gmt":"2004-09-30T21:56:53","slug":"be-gone-telemarketers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/be-gone-telemarketers\/","title":{"rendered":"Be gone telemarketers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have received phone calls from CIBC Visa, TD Canada Trust, Telus, and a few smaller companies asking me to buy things.  (I&#8217;m not providing links to these companies.  They can generate their own markets.)<\/p>\n<p>I would like you to know, if you are a telemarketer, that I don&#8217;t like cold calls.  I consider it phone spam.  If I&#8217;m looking for a line of credit, or a cheaper long distance plan or a VISA card with 5000 bonus airmiles, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.com\/search?hl=en&amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;q=CIBC+VISA+card+with+5000+bonus+airmiles&amp;btnG=Google+Search\">Google<\/a> and I are perfectly capable of finding it.  <\/p>\n<p>So if you do call please be aware that I will subject you to one of the following treatments:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The phone will be put on my desk while you prattle on and I continue working (the world record for this treatment is a full two minutes from someone soliciting funds from a police benevolent society).<\/li>\n<li>You will be passed to my three year old and be invited to try selling to him (let&#8217;s see how good you REALLY are).<\/li>\n<li>You will be subjected to an uncontrollable fit of laughing, coughing, sneezing or   worse.<\/li>\n<li>You and I will have a conversation about spam.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;m not a mean person, trust me. But if you phone me looking to sell me something I don&#8217;t need, I will respond to you with the same courtesy.  If your company&#8217;s products and marketing are so shabby that you have to resort to phone spam, then you are not a step above the emailers who get trapped in my mail filters.  The difference between them and you, is that you are on the end of my phone line and I&#8217;ll have a word with you before I delete you.<\/p>\n<p>Argh.  It drives me crazy how people always figure out the basest uses for the best technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I have received phone calls from CIBC Visa, TD Canada Trust, Telus, and a few smaller companies asking me to buy things. (I&#8217;m not providing links to these companies. They can generate their own markets.) I would like you to know, if you are a telemarketer, that I don&#8217;t like cold calls. I consider it phone spam. If I&#8217;m looking for a line of credit, or a cheaper long distance plan or a VISA card with 5000 bonus airmiles, Google and I are perfectly capable of finding it. So if you do call please be aware that I will &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/piBp1-8V","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chriscorrigan.com\/parkinglot\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}