A lot of places do mixed calling, both inbound and outbound. So if for some reason there isn't any inbound (often customer service or sales) calls in queue, they'll be given an outbound sales lead.
Of course, this isn't the case here since the number Dave Barry gave wasn't for a company doing sales but for the association itself.
That's absolutely ridiculous. The point of the job isn't to annoy a few hundred people a day, its to sell a product to people. The annoyance is merely a side effect of the whole thing.
"They'd probably be out raping grandmothers if they could figure out a way for it to pay the bills." I don't see how you drew this conclusion. I work in a call center (IT department, not sales) and I can vouch that most of the sales people are, in fact, not rapists.
And somehow I don't think being a beggar pays the bills like a steady telemarketting job does. Geez... I don't think even one part of your post had any truth to it.
They will fork out the dough for long distance calling. I work in IT at a large Canadian call center and all of our clients are US companies, calling US residents. I suppose when one of the clients is a major telecom, that cuts down the long distance bill a little, though. I've worked at a few similiar places in Canada and its the same deal everywhere.
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A lot of places do mixed calling, both inbound and outbound. So if for some reason there isn't any inbound (often customer service or sales) calls in queue, they'll be given an outbound sales lead. Of course, this isn't the case here since the number Dave Barry gave wasn't for a company doing sales but for the association itself.
That's absolutely ridiculous. The point of the job isn't to annoy a few hundred people a day, its to sell a product to people. The annoyance is merely a side effect of the whole thing.
"They'd probably be out raping grandmothers if they could figure out a way for it to pay the bills." I don't see how you drew this conclusion. I work in a call center (IT department, not sales) and I can vouch that most of the sales people are, in fact, not rapists.
And somehow I don't think being a beggar pays the bills like a steady telemarketting job does. Geez... I don't think even one part of your post had any truth to it.
They will fork out the dough for long distance calling. I work in IT at a large Canadian call center and all of our clients are US companies, calling US residents. I suppose when one of the clients is a major telecom, that cuts down the long distance bill a little, though. I've worked at a few similiar places in Canada and its the same deal everywhere.