{"id":174,"date":"2004-07-21T21:59:55","date_gmt":"2004-07-21T20:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=174"},"modified":"2004-07-21T21:59:55","modified_gmt":"2004-07-21T20:59:55","slug":"torture-the-salesperson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=174","title":{"rendered":"Torture the salesperson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today a sales droid called work trying to flog us &#8216;a 30% reduction in our landline to mobile calls&#8217;, and took no notice of the &#8216;We are not interested, thankyou&#8217;. After I eventually got rid of the bloodsucking time parasite, we were talking about what to do with sales calls at home:<\/p>\n<ul>Approach 1<\/ul>\n<p>Say nothing but &#8216;Yes&#8217;.<\/p>\n<ul>Approach 2<\/ul>\n<p>When asked if Mr [name] is in, say &#8216;Hang on, I&#8217;ll get him&#8217;, then return to whatever you were doing, leaving the phone off the hook.<\/p>\n<ul>Approach 3<\/ul>\n<p>As approach 1, but first repeat the last two words the droid said. (This makes you sound like an old person, by the way.)<\/p>\n<ul>Approach4<\/ul>\n<p>As approach 2, but play some hideous &#8216;music on hold&#8217; too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today a sales droid called work trying to flog us &#8216;a 30% reduction in our landline to mobile calls&#8217;, and took no notice of the &#8216;We are not interested, thankyou&#8217;. After I eventually got rid of the bloodsucking time parasite, we were talking about what to do with sales calls at home: Approach 1 Say &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=174\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Torture the salesperson<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}