Harrumph

[liadnan]

I have had enough of tits of salesmen ringing me up and addressing me by my first name, as though we were friends or I had invited them to do so, before bothering to introduce themselves, and then eventually winding their way around to trying to sell me something. Particularly when it is the FIFTH FUCKING TIME in a couple of months. This time I tried to be polite while asking why they were calling me by my first name. Next time they get told to stick their new mobile phone contract up their arse. Or an invoice for my extremely expensive wasted time.

This is probably terribly pompous of me. But where do these fuckers get the idea they are entitled to address me as a friend?

Comments

[uitlander]

It's called 'sales technique', and yes it is offensive. I usually inform them that my name is Dr uitlander and that is how they are to address me if they wish to continue any conversation. If they splutter or make any false move after that I put the phone down on them.

[kake]

It's really annoying. There is absolutely no chance at all that I'm going to buy the thing they're selling, but they won't let me just tell them that and save us both time — they want to go through all the "hello, how are you today?" stuff first.

[chrysaphi.livejournal.com]

where do these fuckers get the idea they are entitled to address me as a friend?

America. *duck*

[deililly.livejournal.com]

You are less likely to slam the phone down on someone you are being made to think of as a friend? :P I am at the stage now of just cutting across the bilge and saying 'No I am sorry I am not interested. Please don't call me again' as fast as possible.

I heard somewhere that if you tell them not to call again they legally have to comply. Though I don't know if it is that or that I am registered with the TPS. I figure both can't hurt though.

The ones that really annoy me though are the recordings. When it isn't even a human bothering you and some machine it just really makes me grrry.

[ankaret.livejournal.com]

The ones that really annoy me though are the recordings. When it isn't even a human bothering you and some machine it just really makes me grrry.

Me too. Especially the ones that go 'please hold for an important message from - ' which just make me hang straight up again - if it's anyone I actually need to hear from, like my bank or whoever, they can damn well write to me.

[deililly.livejournal.com]

Damn straight.

The call I got today was a machine blaring some form of cheesy elevator music at me before there was even any speech. Why they think that would keep me on the line I have no idea.

Someone needs to invent a button on the phone to press that will shoot down the line and fry the circuits of these machines. And then the creators. Mind you if they did my phone would never survive as I would have punched the button all the way through it and into the table in a matter of minutes!

[lizw.livejournal.com]

TPS FTW. I get maybe one or two calls like this a year since signing up with them (usually from overseas call centres - perhaps there's some kind of loophole in the system there).

[rosamicula.livejournal.com]

Try:

'Other than my friends the only people I permit to call me by my firstname are my clients. I work in the sex industry, so unless you are prepared to pay me to shit into your open mouth and flog you senseless, please call me Miss Liadnan.'

Or

'Have we met? You sound just like the *insert twat's name* with the tiny cock and erectile problems I shagged at party a couple of years ago... That wasn't you?... We'll unless I HAVE laughed at your naked cock in the past please call me Miss Liadnan'.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_hypatia_/]

I just don't bother - I resent even the time that takes. Junk phone calls annoy me even more than junk mail so anyone calling me gets the stock response: 'I'm registered with the telephone preference thingy because I don't take marketing calls, I'll pass the name of your company back to TP thingy thank you. click'

I'm never rude but I absolutely won't engage with them. If it is a company I use for something else they get one warning, to allow for error. The second time I complain and I have quit services on account of junk calls.

I just lost patience with them when I totted up the cost of receiving those junk calls after coming back from France one year.

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

Oh lovey. Would you like me to call you Mr Liadnan to make up for it? Or maybe My Lord?

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

I vote for m'Lord! =)

[pashazade.livejournal.com]

So do I! I shall report back on the experiment.

[sobelle.livejournal.com]

One of my pricey pleasures (for a pensioner) is caller ID.

If I don't know who is calling? I don't pick up. Is wonderful!!!

[caulkhead.livejournal.com]

My brother claims 'You have ten seconds to convince me to buy whatever crap you are selling. Starting now....' followed by ten seconds of spluttering, then 'Sorry, not good enough' is both effective and amusing.