Job Snob

[ImNotDancing]

Just wanted to get a feeler out there for other peoples opinions...

My DF just got a call from a telemarketer and reeled of a whole spiel about the telephone preference service but then ended with the words 'get a better job'.

I was fuming on the other persons behalf, DF may find the phone calls annoying but who is he to deem whether their job is good enough? I told him it's the equivelent of telling me working in retail that one day I'll get a real job. AIBU?

People often talk about the nuisance of beggars and councils do everything they can to get them out of city centres, but I have never been hassled by a beggar in the way I am by cold callers. If beggars did behave like cold callers, most people would call the police. Yet they are only trying to make a living...

I used to wait till they'd finished their opening gambit then say "thank you for calling, sorry I'm not interested, please take me off your list, I'm going to hang up now, have a nice day, goodbye" back in the day when everyone was fit and we'd get a call every so often. Now we get multiple calls per day and I don't have time for my polite little spiel - I need to get back to my newborn child, help my parents with meals and the family business (farming- so work from home) so I just cut across them with a cheery "goodbye" and plonk the phone down. I may start adding a sympathetic "good luck with the job hunt" as anyone on their right mind would hate doing a parasitic job like unsolicited telesales and be desperate for something else.
My mum- who had a severe, possibly stress related physical illness recently- can't help herself getting annoyed and stressed by these multiple calls and is sharp in tone with them quite often.
My dad- who is in the intermediate stage of dementia- fortunately recognises cold calls so doesn't get scammed. He hasn't enough awareness for social niceties to the cold caller though and just slams the phone down, which is OK but slightly annoying in that he will occasionally mistake a known caller for a cold caller. So if he gets to the phone first and slams it down we have to dial 1471. Which doesn't work if it was one if it's one of his or mum's HCPs. Mobile reception rubbish so no point giving HCPs mobile as first number.