[Sca-cooks] Re: Lands (OT)

[Ruth Frey]

	Magdalena wrote:
> Ooh, that's a fun one.  Do you know they're legally obligated to call no
> earlier than 8 or 9 am?  (I can't remember which.)  If it were me, I'd
> very carefully take down their name and the name of the company, note
> the time, note the time in their office just for reference, and then
> carefully explain to them that they will be hearing from your lawyer.  I
> probably wouldn't go that far unless I knew a laywer who'd do it for me
> gratis just for fun (which I do,) but you could still get the company
> shaking in it's boots.

	Actually, that has been used as a threat by a
friend of mine who was attmepting to deal with a particularly
rude and agressive saleslady.  Apparently, the word "lawyer"
got her to shut right up.

> I don't promote abusing phone soliciters.  They're generally poorly paid
> schmucks in a crappy job.  But, this isn't abusing the soliciter - it's
> passing the abuse on to her company, who deserves it for not passing on
> the correct information to her.  Actually, they deserve to be abused
> just for being a telemarketing company, but that's another story...

 	Oh, I'm usually very polite to the phone soliciters
I get -- several of my friends had had to work for various
phone solicitation or phone survey companies (this is a
college town, and such jobs are pretty popular because the
hours are flexible).  The companies really do treat their
employees poorly, not to mention the abuse from phonees.
	Still, when I get someone on the line who refuses to
believe that I know where I *live*, then I'm inclined to get
rude back (not all of them do that, though -- most are very
apologetic).

		-- Ruth