Dealing with cold callers

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Dealing with cold callers

Pebble — 3/15/2022 3:23:27 PM (archived)

A relative of mine does telephone support for people in mental health crisis, when she gets cold callers she talks to them as if they were a client explaining their difficulties. The calls are invariably cut short.

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God, I just want to leave this planet.... - RL - 3/14/2022 11:51:44 PM
- To be fair, I bet this is actually some 1st rate tongue-in-cheek satire. - ER - 3/15/2022 1:33:23 AM
  - No it will be real - Pebble - 3/15/2022 12:29:43 PM
    - C'mon Pebble. Lighten up. This is just too good to pass up. - ER - 3/16/2022 5:22:35 AM
- Eventually, - podrock - 3/14/2022 11:54:13 PM
  - Yo, Pod. - ER - 3/15/2022 1:29:01 AM
    - Sometime, maybe. - podrock - 3/15/2022 2:41:41 AM
      - Dr. Henrickson's memoirs would likely sell quite well... - RL - 3/15/2022 3:25:50 PM
        
        The guy walked away from three different helicopter crashes in Alaska! - podrock - 3/15/2022 4:34:41 PM
        
        Props to him for that - RL - 3/15/2022 5:07:14 PM
        
        LOL - podrock - 3/15/2022 5:31:31 PM
        
        You have no idea! - podrock - 3/15/2022 3:42:17 PM
        
        I remember he was dating one at the time... - RL - 3/15/2022 3:46:18 PM
        
        same one - podrock - 3/15/2022 3:53:49 PM
        
        I can't condone it, but I am impressed... - RL - 3/15/2022 4:02:23 PM
        
        Yes, he was. - podrock - 3/15/2022 4:26:06 PM
        
        With his money? - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:58:38 PM
        
        Don't know about that - podrock - 3/15/2022 4:21:31 PM
      - I am imagining geology centered romances now... - RL - 3/15/2022 3:16:05 PM
        
        LOL - podrock - 3/15/2022 3:39:39 PM
        
        Excellent. - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:24:28 PM
  - You know, I am not entirely sure what a bodice is- but I am certain I have never ripped one... - RL - 3/15/2022 12:28:31 AM
    - When you find out what one is spare me the description - Pebble - 3/15/2022 12:31:26 PM
      - I am tempted to write up the procedure in the same way I would write the procedure for one of the technical tasks at work... - RL - 3/15/2022 1:57:20 PM
        
        Dealing with cold callers - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:23:27 PM
        
        :) - RL - 3/15/2022 3:44:43 PM
        
        Yep, you got it. - Pebble - 3/15/2022 3:59:15 PM
    - LOL - podrock - 3/15/2022 12:46:21 AM
      - Porn for girls. - ER - 3/15/2022 1:24:30 AM
        
        Sod that for a game of soldiers - Pebble - 3/15/2022 12:28:25 PM
        
        Another idiom I had to look up... - RL - 3/15/2022 5:13:15 PM
        
        I have no idea of the origin… - Pebble - 3/15/2022 5:16:58 PM

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