Ray Evans Harrell wrote:
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> Just a thought,
>
> Cousin REH
>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2002 7:54 PM
> Subject: Three Little Words
>
> > THREE LITTLE WORDS.. I suppose some degree of commerce
> >
> > would grind to a halt if telephone solicitors weren't able to call
> >
> > people at home during dinner hour. But that doesn't make it any more
> >
> > pleasant.
> >
> >
> >
> > Now Steve Rubenstein, a writer for the San Francisco Chronicle,
> >
> > has proposed "Three Little Words" based on his brief experience
> >
> > in a telemarketing operation that would stop the nuisance for all
> > time.
> >
> >
> > The three little words are "Hold On, Please."
> >
> >
> >
> > Saying this while putting down your phone and walking off instead
> >
> > of hanging up immediately would make each telemarketing call so
> >
> > time-consuming that boiler rooms would grind to a halt.
[snip]
How about, instead, engaging the telemarketer in a conversation --
OK, maybe a monologue -- about alienated labor, how capitalism requires
persons to do stupid things like being telemarketers in order
to reproduce their individual and species life, etc.?
Tell the person you genuinely empathize with his or her
plight. Don't you? How would *you* like to be
in that person's shoes?
Always remember: There is no such thing as an uninteresting
person or a boring situation -- but there *are* persons
whose "background" is too impoverished for them to be able to
find anything interesting in a person or situation.
Maybe these people are *our* Jesus on the cross?
\brad mccormick
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Let your light so shine before men,
that they may see your good works.... (Matt 5:16)
Prove all things; hold fast that which is good. (1 Thes 5:21)
<![%THINK;[SGML+APL]]> Brad McCormick, Ed.D. / [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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