Comments on: Telephone surveys

By: Jolicoeur

Jolicoeur — Sat, 07 May 2005 19:46:27 +0000

I used to work for one of those telemarketing companies while I was a student. I hated it, but the money was allright so…

Somehow I always had to interrupt someone in the middle of a football game to ask him whether he prefers Pepsi Maxx or Coke Lite, or ask some angry customer why he recently left the insurance company that had been screwing him over for the last 25 years?

So now, as a principle, whenever I get called by some poor student interviewer, I always take five minutes to fill in the questionaire.

Always a good thing to consider both sides of the medal I guess…

Jolicoeur
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By: whacker

whacker — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 23:28:12 +0000

which 90% of the time ends up in you answering no to every single of their quadzillion million questions

By: jesus_

jesus_ — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 22:13:51 +0000

Hehe

It’s not that they are well trained, they just have a script they need to follow.

By: Kiwi

Kiwi — Mon, 25 Apr 2005 19:10:52 +0000

Good one, well, you should start asking some questions yourself too. Although, most of the time they are too well trained, and will never give you the chance to interfere with their scheme.

Anyhow, I love these kinds of phonecalls too, always fun:

either it’s interesting
either she has an exciting voice
either it’s some vender which i like to fool around a bit

Always fun!