The Fool wrote:
> Recruiters are up-front about their plans to use school lists to
> aggressively pursue students through mailings, phone calls, and personal
> visits -- even if parents object. "The only thing that will get us to
> stop contacting the family is if they call their congressman," says Major
> Johannes Paraan, head U.S. Army recruiter for Vermont and northeastern
> New York. "Or maybe if the kid died, we'll take them off our list."
"Or maybe if the kid died"?
Sheesh!
If my kid had died and I got a call from a recruiter, depending on how
recently it had been, I'd either lay a massive guilt trip on the caller
(more recent) or inform the recruiter of the "new address" (and just
give the street address for the cemetary) (less recent and not the first
call from that branch of the service since the death) and tell the
recruiter to just stop by the new address sometime.
(I doubt that individual recruiters would be so tasteless as to call
repeatedly when told of a death, though.)
One trick of stopping repeated calls by recruiters I've heard of that
worked in at least one case and might work again is:
* tell the Air Force recruiter that you're going to Annapolis
* tell the Navy recruiter you're going to West Point
* tell the Army recruiter you're going to the Air Force academy
In the mid-1980s, they weren't checking with each other....
Julia
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