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Call me maybe: The trouble with telemarketers

By Denise Wong TELEMARKETER CALLING We’ve all gotten unwelcome calls from telemarketers, even cursed them or hung up on them. “About 30 per cent would just hang up [on me],” confirms Dana, who used to work as a telemarketer. “Reading that script over and over all day made you sound like a recording after a while. I . . . had one man get angry and say that we’re robots.” Last winter, I was on the receiving end of a negative telemarketer experience: a telemarketer called me, telling me about a new telephone add-on service, which I politely declined. I…

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