[drowntoge]

I hang up the moment I realize it’s a sales call. If I’m in a particularly great mood that day, I might mutter a quick “No thank you I’m not interested.”

The way I vindicate myself morally is by knowing I’m not wasting their time this way. People like me are dead ends —— I know that I’m never going to be convinced to buy whatever they’re selling in a million years. By ending the call quickly, I feel like I’m doing them a favor. They can move on to someone who might actually be interested.

[flkiwi]

I try to do that, and if I get the robodialer pause I do hang up without any preamble. But some of the sales scripts are unnervingly similar to normal work conversations I have any day of the week. Those folks? They get the “no thank you” first, but sometimes they call back, and it’s open season after that.