Commentary: Telemarketers

Is it just me, or are the telemarketers getting really lazy? Lately, nearly every time I get a sales call, it is a recorded message asking me to hold for an important message! Yeah, right. Um, you called me, dude.

I hate being put on hold, no matter what, but I am certainly not going to sit around and wait to be harassed by an automated message or, possibly worse, some poor sap who barely speaks English to read off a scripted message. I hate being rude to people, but I’ve about had it. And before you say it, yes, we’ve had our numbers on the do not call list for years and I’ve renewed it recently. And I’m aware of all the exceptions. We’ve gotten some at home, but mostly we get these obnoxious calls at work.

The first couple of times this happened, I tried to politely blow them off. Explained that we are just one little office in a very large organization. I insinuated that if they were a legitimate company, they should have better contact information than to call the library. One guy was really persistent and wanted me to find out who to contact. So, being a dope I wrote down his information. After I got him off the phone I realized, hey, I don’t have to do this. Toss the note.