Comments on: Why you shouldn’t call me for a phone survey on a Saturday morning

By: Warlach

Warlach — Thu, 18 Feb 2010 00:55:24 +0000

Hey, just for the record, I used to do this exact job – hours on end conducting surveys with people.

All I ask is that you give the person on the other end a bit of slack – they’re ussually students or those who due to their weight (so many fatties), life choices (like the courier who ran over a kid and couldn’t get work) or education level don’t have other options.

Refuse the survey, by all means, but don’t jerk the person around or abuse them. The fastest way off the line is polite refusal anyway. Besides, anything else would be akin treating someone like less of a human being just because they were in a despised industry, like advertising…

By: Annik

Annik — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 04:17:58 +0000

@SL – I feel so validated! Thank you for breaking your vow of silence

By: kahlee

kahlee — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 05:47:40 +0000

I always give them 10s so that I don’t have to justify my damn answer.

By: Jessica

Jessica — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 23:43:48 +0000

We get so many of those junk calls during the week its ridiculous! My Dad just yells at them and hangs up straight away. Once, the lady called back just to tell him how rude he was!

By: SL

SL — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:51:39 +0000

Why wouldn’t I have a spelling mistake in my first comment? How lovely.

I, of course, meant stupidly, not whatever rendering of it I achieved just now.

By: SL

SL — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 22:49:24 +0000

So, I’m breaking my blog-long streak of lurking cause I work for Vodafone, and let me tell you, the map programme for coverage is so stuiply hard to actually use that most of the time, they’ll just be bullshitting you based on how angry you are.

I mean, um, customer service of the highest standard, all the time. XD

Also, we get judged on surveys just like that, like properly disciplined and shit, which, let me tell you, is somewhat frustrating. The company doesn’t seem to get that, as you’ve handily demonstrated thar, when you’re hassling someone to give you information they don’t give a shit about, they’re not going to reccommend your service to friends.

[lurk]

By: Annik

Annik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:51:28 +0000

@Natalie – oh I held back… next time, they won’t be so lucky.

By: Natalie

Natalie — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 04:42:22 +0000

Thought that was actually exceedingly polite phone survey discourse for anytime of day or week. Can you be more disrespectful in the future?

By: Annik

Annik — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:36:18 +0000

@franksting – just go to gravatar and upload your very own finger.

By: franksting

franksting — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 03:30:03 +0000

Damn, I missed the dick jokes. How come I alwasy seem to be giving the finger here, I want a picture too