I work in an office five days a week, I know how frustrating it is to answer the phone and hear an automated reply on the other end telling you that you won some sort of free vacation or that you've got this amazing offer for a line of credit from some bank. But in all seriousness, who really believes that they won a free vacation? For a period of time when I was between jobs, I worked at an outbound call center, where we would have to call people and tell them that they won a vacation. When in actual fact they had not. We had to read through this entire spiel and then tell them we needed their credit card information which, by the time the words credit card came out of your mouth, people usually had hung up, no matter how good the offer was. I mean, most of the places that call you like this are scam lines, trust me. It just ticks me off that they try and force themselves on you. You tell them you aren't interested and they keep talking and talking. I mean... I know they have to, because it's part of the job, but they are people just like you and should have some consideration.

Then you have the phone companies and the cable companies who cold call you or if you are an existing customer, call you to offer you some exclusive deal only to very loyal customers. No offense, but if I wanted to switched providers or if I wanted a new cell phone, I would have gone looking myself. I'm not lazy about going after what I want, and the fact that you sit on the other end telling me how amazing it is after I've told you ten times that I want nothing to do with it, makes me want to spit in your face. Again, I know they are just doing their job; they need money just like me. But being forceful and pushing something on someone isn't going to make things any better for anyone involved. I personally like talking to people who are polite and kind and actually listen to me.

If you are going to cold call people at least be nice about it please? And not get pissed off when I tell you no. And don't keep going into your HUGE speech that's sitting in front of you on a piece of typed paper after I've tried to tell you before you started that I wasn't interested. I'm not only trying to save you time from sitting on the phone with someone who isn't interested when you could be calling the next person, but I"m also trying to save me time. I mean granted, I don't have a full calender of social events, but I do have things I need to get done and one of them is not listening to an offer that I'm certainly not interested in.

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