Quote Originally Posted by badger View Post
I was talking to my friend one day about telemarketers and she admitted she was one while going to school. She said it was AWFUL, that people were really rude, so she would tell them that she was a student trying to make a living and to put herself to school. It's a job for her and there's no reason for them to be rude to her.
Who knew that my remarks about telemarketers would generate so many responses?

Without defending bad behaviour (and I admit that some might say that my toying with telemarketers is bad behaviour), I would like to say this about telemarketing: People wouldn't be rude to telemarketers if the practice of telemarketing wasn't so damn annoying, time-wasting and intrusive. People generally aren't rude by default. They get that way by virtue of being needled into it. Here is a post by someone who's received one too many telemarketer calls (warning: contains not-so-nice language).

Anyway. Another pet peeve: Co-workers who stand outside my office door and have a shouted conversation with someone down the hall. For god's sake, just walk five metres to that person and have a spoken conversation with them!!!! I don't need to hear you blathering on! Nobody else needs to hear it either! Just give me some peace and quiet!!!!!

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