Summer_Twilight wrote:
Hi:
I work as a telemarketer for a nice company and I have been doing so for a year. Anyway, for those of you who are telemarketers yourselves, you get all kinds of people and responses.]
In my case, some of these people I had to laugh at when I get off the phone because their responses can be anything from petty to ludacris.
In this case, I was doing my work and spoke to one person and I will call A. I went into my pitch and then I got a no. A then told me that they had to run because they were in the middle of something. I told them I too had to run and thanked him for his time since I had calls to make and chuckled quietly while hanging up.
A called back a little irritated and maybe insulted. "Miss, we just spoke on the phone while you were trying to sell me something. Do you view me as a joke or something?" Paraphrased.
I said I was sorry and hung up.
So, the next time someone tells me that they are busy and I want to let them know that I am as well, what is the best way to do so without causing so much as a stir to make the other person nasty.
The proper send off is what Fnord said "thankyou, bye."
But I have to ask you something.
Do you have a death wish?
YOU are calling them, and taking up THEIR time.
Not the other way around.
If you respond to them saying "Im busy" ( which fifty percent of the time is a lie to just to get you off the phone) dont EVER say "Im busy too".
Not only do you run the risk of sounding like you're mocking them.
Not only are you sounding dumb by informing them of the obvious (they know that you're on the clock doing a job).
But you come off as sounding like you're saying "my time is more valuable than yours, I can call you up and take up your time- but I only have limited time to spare to give you the great priviledge of wasting your time."
Last edited by naturalplastic on 02 Apr 2013, 6:54 pm, edited 1 time in total.
02 Apr 2013, 2:04 pm
