I don't mean to be rude about this, I really don't.
MY telephone is in MY house for MY convenience. I am not paying for a telephone for the convenience of telemarketers or anyone else that calls me that I don't know. The fact that you are placing an unwanted call is rude and ill-mannered. If you can't find another way to sell, or survey or whatever then that's too bad. I have already placed my phone number on the national "Do Not Call" list for telemarketers. Before that, when they called, I simply said "I do not do business on the telephone so please do not call here again"....and promptly hung up. A telemarketing call is an invasion of privacy.
I don’t mean to be rude either, I’m just trying to get people to understand the other end of the spectrum. It’s unfair to have a one-sided view on anything.
Okay, let’s say that someone calling is rude and ill-mannered. Is being rude and ill-mannered right back any better? Aren’t you just perpetuating the cycle of people being angry? Not to say that you don‘t have a right to be angry, but I think the better person is the one who can keep their cool. I can understand people being upset with telemarketers, I just don’t think it’s necessary to be rude (not to say that you were being rude.)
I’ve always thought of it like this, as far as surveys go. We need to gather information about a certain topic, what is the most effective way to do this? Through the phone. It’s quick and doesn’t require travel. As for gathering information, I think this is the best way. I think most Americans are apathetic towards a lot of issues, so calling them, rather than sending them something through the mail where it would automatically get thrown away, is the best way. Because then they are actually dealing with a person. And I said before, being on the "Do Not Call" list does not exempt you from telephone surveyors. So you more than likely will get one, and it’s not their fault. They don’t know you’re on the list. That’s why you let them know not to call anymore, but you don’t have to be mean about it.
You wrote a long, detailed answer to me involving U.S. law without bothering to check whether your references would have any relevance. I said that because the assumption that they would, reflects others that prompted you to start the thread — that posters likely would agree or sympathize with your belief that it is wrong for people to express strongly and rudely that they begrudge the calls.
Well, my post about the “Do Not Call” list had to do with the fact that people expect to be exempt from telephone surveyors, when the government explicitly tells you that you won’t be. I’m not sure what you’re talking about after the first sentence.
[F Sans MS]I'm sure that's not the only job available. I don't think you have the right to think anyone should be nice to you when you're invading their privacy, it's not realistic and it's never going to happen, get over it, and if you don't like getting yelled out for invading someones privacy quit, like I said, there are other jobs.
Oh by the way, Kirby kicks ass 
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You’re right, this isn’t the only job. But I applied to 10 different places, and this was the only one to call me back, and I needed money BADLY. If I can find another job nearby, then I’ll take it. But it would have to pay more, and be really close on campus, since my truck is a piece of crap. The odds of finding a good paying job close on campus, unfortunately, is not very likely, so I take what I can. And the people I work with are great. Everything about the job is great. It’s the rude people that make the job a downer.
And yes, Kirby is great.
- outwitted once again!
Besides being rude to telemarketers is the only way (albeit feeble) to let them know that what they do is not acceptable.