Jensenman wrote: We get one here at work that's aggravating as hell. It's a robodialer, so the phone rings, you pick it up and there's a roughly two second silence (robodialer seeing the completed call and then connecting), then a ship's horn sound, then 'This is your captain speaking. Are you ready to embark on the cruise of a lifetime?' I have never gotten past that point because it always happens when the service lane is full of people and I just don't have time to listen any further.
I've got this same call at my shop, too! I've never heard sound effects in a telemarketing call (stay on the line and you get to hear seagulls), so points for creativity.
I get at least five sales calls a day at the shop, some from solicitors, some from telemarketers. The evil part of me finds some sick satisfaction in the fact that it's somebody's job to interrupt other people while they're trying to work. But not in a big way, just a minor annoyance. Nefarious!
