Thursday, January 12, 2006

A funny telemarketing call

Here's a quick one. I get a call today from one of those telemarketing companies hawking the next big telephone yellow page service. I could tell right away that she was reading from a prepared script. How you ask? Well she goes like this, "We have been getting a lot of calls asking about Internet service providers in Chennai and we have been referring them to ABC Company in Adyar and XYZ Company in Anna Nagar". The least they could do was actually substitute ABC and XYZ with some real names of our competitors. :-) Oh well, we live in a mechanical world after all.