People often ask me how come I don’t post telemarketer theater plays that much anymore. It’s not that I don’t want to. I haven’t gotten bored with doing them or anything like that. The problem is that I just haven’t gotten any in a long time. At least not from a live person that I…
You know what’s sad? Push-pollers. Push pollers just don’t have the right kind of sticktoitness to be really effective. They need to take lessons from the phone scammers who normally call me. They have to work harder and really dig in there and try to convince me. Because this just went poorly. INT. PITTSBURGH HOME…
I’ve been wondering if the Telemarketing Scammers have been on to me. I haven’t gotten as many calls lately. And when I have they’ve been pretty quick to hang up on me. Here’s the one that happened today. INT. PITTBSBURGH HOME – DAY STEPH is watching TV and eating breakfast as the phone rings. MAV happens…
I know it’s cliche, but I write a lot of things in the shower. Somehow, it’s just a good place to get a lot of ideas sorted out. I don’t necessarily know what I am going to be writing in the shower, but I do have a lot of ideas there. Today, I was planning…
I was working on my computer when I heard line ring in the other room. I yelled for Steph to pick it up, since usually the landline is her mother calling. But Steph looked at the CallerID and said “yeah, I’m not getting that.” I ran in to double check. The Call is from 1-800-000-0000…
Oh Hell Yeah it is!!! That’s right. At long last, It’s the one you’ve been waiting for. The Phone Sex Edition of Telemarketer Theater! Our hero, MAV is sitting in his office reading literary journals, because that’s just the kind of wild man he is. The phone rings in the other room. Mav goes to answer…
The problem with running a telephone scam out of India is that anyone with half decent English grammar can get a job in a legitimate call center. Remember that 1 scene play I wrote about my experience with a caller a few weeks back? I now present the sequel. MAV is finishing up his lunch…