The telemarketers have resorted to using IVRS to initiate the call, deliver the initial script, & get the answers they need before handing it off to a live Human.
You can't just swear at them & hang up in the first few seconds any longer, the computer won't care & just adds your number to the active list for another call later.
You have to wait for the IVRS to finish & hand you off before you can really start to f4 with them, and by that time I'm already bored.
For a live Human to start the call was already cutting through all the BS, and I decided to take advantage of it as quickly as possible.
*Sighs, shrugs, smiles*
The other end of the telemarketer idiocy scale is when it IS a live Human that starts the call & they get everything wrong.
"Hello. I'm looking to speak to Mister Zickowski. Is this him?"
(Me, fake Grandmother voice) Nope.
"Well then perhaps I can speak to you about adding solar to your home!"
Nope.
"Do you already have solar on your roof?"
Nope.
"Would you LIKE to install solar on your roof?"
This is the pay phone outside a 7-11. I live in a cardboard box between the phone & a dumster.
"Oh, then would you like to add solar to your dumster?"
Persistant yes, intelligent no.
I even doubt the "Live Human" part.
Live maybe, Human doubtful.
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