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What the fuck are telemarketers doing calling at 4:30am?
Wake us up thinking that some emergency had happened to a family member or friend by calling at 4:30am then barely explain what the fuck you’ve called about to our soggy, sleep-ridden brains on a terrible connection.
Fuck. —I Want My Sleep Back
This article appears in Jul 8-14, 2010.
9 Comments
The cast of “Slumdog Millionaire” were under the mistaken impression that our brief infatuation with Indian culture was going to be a permanent thing. Now they are older, no longer cute and working in a Mumbai boiler room. Be nice OP, they are just loney and want to be friends.
LOL. They’ll be on the next boat to Vancouver.
yeah it sucks, but remember o.p., it’s 9 a.m. somewhere in the world.
Airhorn the bastards! I detest telemarketers. At 4AM they deserve a proper blast!!! Survey takers are annoying too. Ditto charitable donation seekers when you start getting weekly calls for a share of the pie.
Anyone using my telephone service for their commercial purposes should have to pay ME for the privaledge of using my phone to do so. I pay a monthly bill so that I can use my phone for my purposes, not for the convenience of some company that I have no interest in to increase their profits. I tell them all the same thing. If I wanted their service they would not have to call me as I would have already called them, at my convenience not when they want thus interrupting my day, or sleep, as is the case of the OP.
But it’s 4:30pm in India.
It’s illegal for them to call before 9am local time. If you got the name of the telemarketing agency, you can actually make a complaint.
An indian telemarketer called me once and I asked him point blank if he was a telemarketer and it was like I could hear his eyes shifting back and forth and after a few seconds of silence he choked out “yeeeeeeeesssssss” all sly-like.
It was hilarious.
I love it when they try to tell me their name is Scott or David or some other name you’d never heard over there. Ask them to spell the alias, usually stumps them.
Oceanlady…Right on sister!