Do you insult telegarbage?

[joelnwil]

Well, I am on the no-call list, but it does not seem to matter to some, and I do not have caller id, largely because I am too cheap to get it.

Personally, I think that a job should serve a useful purpose, and I do not telemarketers qualify.

I remember a call I got from Life Alert. "Someone in you family has said that you need Life Alert." Not true, but it was a recorded call, so I just hung up.

[DanaC]

Originally Posted by joelnwil

Personally, I think that a job should serve a useful purpose, and I do not telemarketers qualify.

Well, clearly from the perspective of those companies who use telemarketing, it does serve a useful purpose. If you mean that a job should be useful to society then there's a damned long list of jobs which are of very questionable value. At the end of the day, though, whether or not you think someone's job serves a useful purpose, it is still their job.