Subject: Re: Free SNOW From: jsn@concentric.net (John S. Novak, III) Organization: Cynics Central Reply-To: jsn@concentric.net Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.written.robert-jordan NNTP-Posting-Host: ts028d26.chi-il.concentric.net (206.173.190.134) On 7 Sep 2000 15:23:13 GMT, Kate Nepveu wrote: >I'm always polite, because it's a shitty job and I see no need to add to >the general suckiness of the world if I can accomplish the same thing >politely (cf. _Good Omens_, Crowley taking down the phone systems at >lunchtime...). I take the diametrically opposite view. I see no particular reason to be in the slightest bit polite to these people. It's a shitty job? Good! Of _course_ it's a shitty job-- it involves sitting down at a telephone and disturbing people who do not want to be disturbed, at times they do not want to be disturbed, to try and sell them shit they do not need, do not want, and do not even want to spend the time to _tell_ you that, no, of course they don't fucking want that. It's a pushy, obnoxious job for pushy, obnoxious people, and everyone on board knows this. I regard every telemarketer I leave broken, bloody, wimpering on the floor reaching for the letter opener to slit their wrists not as a karmic debt, but a karmic victory. Every telemarketer that I can drive sivelling right out of the business (feet first in suicide, if need be) is another nickel shaved off the profitability of these pernicious enterprises, and perhaps-- just perhaps-- another hour closer to the glorious day in which these things become too unprofitable to maintain. Every telemarketter I send into therapy is another marketter closer to the day when the droids themselves rise up and kill their master with the same teflon-coated sporks they've been trying to hock all these years. Everything I can do to make their jobs more obnoxious and unbearable is a public service, says I. -- John S. Novak, III jsn@concentric.net The Humblest Man on the Net