I’m cooking red peppers when the phone rings :
– 喂，你好，黄先生系唔系屋企?
I hate bloody telemarketing, especially in Cantonese.
– 对不起，不会说广东话。
(“Sorry, I don’t speak Cantonese…” in Cantonese)
– 喂， 你好，你是不是…
– 对不起，不会说汉语。
(“Sorry, I don’t speak Mandarin…” in Mandarin)
– English okay?
– Sorry, I only speak French.
– 拜拜!
Yeah, bye-bye…
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Humm… I speak French too… wish you wont hang up… 😉
I’ve only had English speaking telemarketers. I usually just hang up on them while they are in the middle of their spiel.
The reason why we have Chinese telemarketer is the phone is under my partner’s name – Chinese name obviously 😉
Otherwise I don’t hang up on people, no matter which language they speak !
I do not really have any of these phone calls.
In fact i don’t get phone calls at all.
hehehe that’s classic! I must try that next time!
In other news, you were a runner up in the joke competition, yayyyyy!
Chinese telemarketing, hmm, I haven’t had that yet! Telemarketers ALWAYS call during dinner, I dunno why, it’s a sixth sense of theirs I guess… Initially I’m annoyed, but I never hang up, I try and be nice and tell them I’m not interested, I feel bad, what an annoying job for them…
Yeah, it’s a shitty job. I’m never rude, but don’t call me after a long day at work or worse – early morning. Basically, don’t call me. In Cantonese. Or aything else.
I Love the look of your blog, as well as what you are saying. However, I have not come across Chinese telemarketers. I have a technique that I use; if I answer the phone and say hello twice with no response, then I am sure that I have been hot by a predictive dialer and I simply hang up.
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