Tuesday, June 23, 2009

telemarketer guilt

"I'm sorry Miss Telemarketer Lady. You were doing a great job. It wasn't you, it was me. Please don't blame yourself." 
Feeling so guilty for the way I treated a telemarketer. The lady called while I was teaching L&L last night, and I was cold and rude. For the rest of the night I felt so guilty! She has feelings, she didn't deserve it, she was calling for a good cause...

I am currently wishing she would call back, and I could handle the situation differently. Maybe I could take more of a "Mitch approach." He calls them by their name, asks questions to throw them off their original game/routine, and sometimes goes in for personal questions. It's like he's just talking to one of his friends.  

7 happy thoughts:

Cathy said...

Mitch has to be careful like that because more than not it is one of his friends!!

Anonymous said...

I am glad I am not the only one who feels guilty if I am rude to them! So Burke's dad is hysterical when they call. When we were there, one called to tell him he had won a trip to California (all he had to do was attend a seminar....you know those ones) He asked her if they had accomidations for quadrapledgics...She had to ask him what that was...she thought it was a place. lol. She hung up on him as soon as he told her! So as I was typing this--at 8:45 am no less--I had a telemarketer call! lol.

Nelson said...

Joidee~
Love how Burke's Dad responded. Even funnier that she didn't know what it was!

swensen squeeze said...

I am not a fan of them as well...in fact I was quite rude one time and Dan also said that they are just doing their job. I then felt bad as well...sorry about that!

Marcae said...

I was a telemarketer once, you know, Cedar Woods Financial?? Great memories, rude customers, memories of Jamie calling back a "rude" customer begging to be BFF's! Good times.

Kim said...

Ok Katie, when I read that I decided that this week I'm going to try to be more like Katie Nelson. It is "Be nice to soliciters week" for me!!

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