TO STAB SOMEONE IN THE FACE!
There are few things that make me crazier and more prepared to shove bamboo chutes under someone's fingernails, or gouge their eyes out with a sharp stick than an AUTOMATED TELEMARKETING CALL! (I'm pretty sure that someone else, probably Idle, wrote about this recently, but I don't really care, it's a topic that merits attention from multiple sources!)
As if the standard telemarketers were not bad enough, now we have to contend with them being computerized. In addition to the fact that they annoyingly don't immediately respond the first time you answer the phone, thus creating the irritating phenomenon known as "Greeting-Repeating" because you have to repeat your standard phone greeting two or three times before the computer realizes that they have a live person on the phone, anxiously awaiting their auditory assault.
Then when it sinks in that the companies that employ these devilish tactics have your number, and will continually call you back, you sometimes force yourself to listen to the schpiel only long enough to get a real person so that you can tell them that you want to be put on their do-not-call list, and then hang up on them... Because there are few things as instantly gratifying as hanging up on a human telemarketer... (The computerized telemarketers definitely lack this appeal, because you know that computer doesn't give a fuck.)
Yeah, so as you can tell, I hate these folks, largely because if you're going to disturb me while I'm working, at least have the decency to send in a real person to do it, because this automated nonsense is BULLSHIT!
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