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06/12/2012 01:08:57 PM · #26
The ones who insist on calling again a few days later are just begging for abuse. "No, noooo... you're with THEM aren't you?!? I knew they were watching me but nobody would listen. They said I was crazy, but I knew. Stay away! Doctor Weinstein, come quick! They're on the phone right now! No, pleeeease, no more pills! I'm holding the phone real tight so they don't get away!" Then scream into the phone and hang up.
06/12/2012 01:20:48 PM · #27
Originally posted by scalvert:

The ones who insist on calling again a few days later are just begging for abuse. "No, noooo... you're with THEM aren't you?!? I knew they were watching me but nobody would listen. They said I was crazy, but I knew. Stay away! Doctor Weinstein, come quick! They're on the phone right now! No, pleeeease, no more pills! I'm holding the phone real tight so they don't get away!" Then scream into the phone and hang up.


oh I gotta try that
06/12/2012 01:30:48 PM · #28
I find a creepy voiced, "so... What are you wearing? ...". Pretty much ends the conversation.
06/12/2012 03:05:19 PM · #29
i make a habit of accepting the phone call and then being as miserable of a SoB as i can to the person on the phone. You know you've mastered this when THEY hang up on YOU (and yes, i've made them do that - even made one girl cry).
06/12/2012 03:14:36 PM · #30
they really annoy me as well as sales calls to my mobile, i run my own comapny so always answer incase its a new client and in our line of work we are either filthy in a hole with gloves on or machines reving away so its machine off, gloves off to be met with some idiot trying to sell you somehting you dont want. i give them short shrift and a lot of abuse but it doesnt seem to work.
06/12/2012 03:32:27 PM · #31
Originally posted by ambaker:

I find a creepy voiced, "so... What are you wearing? ...". Pretty much ends the conversation.

And if it doesn't, the caller has your phone number.
06/12/2012 04:41:35 PM · #32
Bearing in mind they have your info, still you can turn an annoying experience into a bit of improv theatre & have a little fun. I've played the role of the maid, the house sitter, the baby sitter, the deaf wife, the senile grandma, & the wrong number. All fun. Now I have a cellphone & a contact list, so now if I don't like caller ID I ignore.
06/12/2012 06:29:46 PM · #33
Originally posted by vawendy:

It's fun wasting their time, though.

As Marbo said, one way to do it is to ask them to hold for a moment, and just never come back.

Many years ago Jon Carroll of the SF Chronicle ran a series on dealing with telemarketers ... the "Could you please hold on for a moment?" tactic was his favorite as well, since as long as they were waiting for you, the less time they had left to harass other potential customers. He said he never felt guilty about lying to them, since "a 'moment' is a Zen kind of thing," different under differing circumstances ...

In a more generic form of phone "humor" an old friend of mine used to answer the phone "Hello, is John there?" -- a good percentage of the time the caller (not John) would reply in the negative and hang up, before remembering that it was they themselves who had placed the call.
06/12/2012 07:31:04 PM · #34
We've found that handing the phone to our 3 year old granddaughter, and telling her it is Santa, does the trick.

ETA: Darn you autocorrect!

Message edited by author 2012-06-12 19:31:48.
06/12/2012 07:38:31 PM · #35
Originally posted by ambaker:

We've found that handing the phone to our 3 year old granddaughter, and telling her it is Santa, does the trick.

What will it do to her psyche to have Santa keep hanging up on her?
06/12/2012 09:55:30 PM · #36
Ah, yes. Another approach? When "Mr. Big" of "Most Important" Company announces himself, I offer my congratulations and hang up. Unfortunately, the robot doesn't get the message. He just pops up again as "Mr. Bigger." I've tried never saying the 2nd hello, and eventually "...if you'd like to make a call, hang up and..." greets me. And as reported, I once destroyed a phone. But the robots continue on their inexorable way.

The stories here today have been fun and I've had my own fun with live callers.

"I'm with XYZ Research, and I'd like to ask you some questions."

You are! What does X Y Z stand for? Say again? Wait a minute, let me write that down. What kind of research do you do? Where are you located? Why did you say you were calling? ...and on, until it gets tiresome and then I tell them to go away. Occasionally, politely.
06/12/2012 10:13:53 PM · #37
Originally posted by GeneralE:

Originally posted by ambaker:

We've found that handing the phone to our 3 year old granddaughter, and telling her it is Santa, does the trick.

What will it do to her psyche to have Santa keep hanging up on her?


She doesn't appear to notice, or they listen for a very long time...
06/12/2012 10:15:32 PM · #38
I have had a rash of Google.com calls on my business line, I keep asking them to take me off their list but they are too stupid to do it which is what i tell each of their operators, it is a pane to get their calls but i love to tell them what idiots they are, so basically I take the call and try to be a pain in their arses. last guy told me they were a 5.4 billion dollar business like I was supposed to be impressed, I just told him that was special but had nothing to do with anything, just take me off your f...ing list.
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