I live in Chicago and I moved to a part of the city abutting the suburbs. This is generally where police and firefighters live, as they have to live within the city limits. Within a week, I got a phone call from a telemarketer asking if I wanted to contribute to the Fraternal Order of Police. As I hate cold calling and I do give charitably to causes I think genuinely need the help, I told him I was not interested. What followed was 20 minutes of various forms of cajoling and abuse, as the marketer could not fathom why I, a white male in his late 20s, wouldn't want to donate to the FOP. Didn't I know I'd get a sticker for my rear window? "Why would I need that?" I asked. Dead silence on the other end. Why didn't I hang up? Because, honestly, I didn't get it. I was naive as hell, and I just didn't hear the dog whistle he was blowing in my ear.

>> ^JAPR:

>> ^Arkaium:
While I laugh, and while we're all in the right to feel a bit of a consumer victory against telemarketers in general thanks to a video like this, I can't help but feel bad for the girl (assuming this is real).

Why would you feel bad for her at all? From the way he's acting, the only impression one can assume she has is that she believes he has some sort of issue with his mental capacity, and DESPITE that, she is STILL trying to sell the paper to him. This is clearly the sort of bitch that would attempt to sell her shitty product to an older person with Alzheimer's who doesn't even want it. Fuck her.


Or perhaps another way to look at it:
Isn't sad that this person is in a desperate position that she is forced to take a job cold-calling people trying to sell a paper? Of course listening to how young she sounds, this sounds more like that first job that you have to take to put something down on your resume.

Of course, I tend to fail empathetic so my view might be skewed.

There are some BIG problem with this video: it either, 1) omits key aspects of the issue (e.g., pressure on brokers and banks to repeatedly cold call & pressure current renters [i.e. potential homeowners] with unrealistic mortgage offers, selling of sub-prime mortgages to prime borrowers [because investors get a higher rate of return for sub-prime loans], and - very importantly - Wall Street's lobby to congress to deregulate lending laws so that Wall Street could create new mortgage products for less-than-prime borrowers or, 2) flat out gets some information wrong (the portrayal of sub-prime borrowers as neglectful or bad people (too many kids & cigarette smoking? really???); especially without informing the audience that most subprime borrowers only defaulted at the 5 year mark on their mortgage, when the monthly interest payment ballooned from 3 or 4 percent each month to 10 to 12 percent each month (an aspect of the mortgage agreement that most brokers assured borrowers would never happen: that by the time the balloon payment was due, that the homeowner could then refinance to a fixed rate at 6-7 percent -- that is if the broker explained that the balloon payment at all (many brokers covered that fact up).

These are key deceptive maneuvers conducted by banks, investors, lenders, brokers -- all in the name of making quick money. THEY were the ones lending, it was their job to properly discern who to and not to lend to; to specifically target people more likely to default and put families already struggling to make ends meet at risk of bankruptcy and homeless just to get a higher rate of return is criminal.

I'm not sure what the problem is with a company calling their own client's. This doesn't even fall in the category of cold calling. If it were cold calling, then yeah, it's annoying. Being annoying does not mean their life should be threatened.

This is just typical of most people, including myself. We feel passionate about a problem, but do nothing that would do any good to fix it. He got all worked up to tell the telemarketer off, and in the end, it did nothing.

Personally, I think BT should just cut off all his services for making such threats to their employees. Who needs to deal with people like that?

This video still amused me.

WHY DOOR TO DOOR?

The reason the watchtower corporation orders their Jehovah's witnesses members to intrude door to door is because in the beginning their leader Joseph Rutherford (who himself never went door to door) knew that this cold-calling tactic would get them recognition and "persecution" as pesky.
If they can get "persecuted" by picking fights then he can say they are 'persecuted for Jesus'.

It's all a Watchtower cult SCAM -Danny Haszard http://www.freeminds.org

The level of Ron Paul online has reached saturation. If you really want him to be the Republican nominees you'd better start cold-calling old people in the Republican primary states, dumping money into his campaign, driving to primary states and helping out, etc.

Otherwise he's on the path to being the Howard Dean of this election. Looks good online, but the blue collars and the old people don't follow him.