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Most fast food workers and most telemarketers make about the same amount of money - Telemarketers can be annoying - no doubt - And no doubt fast food workers are for the most part peddling unhealthy - cardiac disease causing and carcinogenic poison masquerading as food. Both groups are clearly people who made the wrong life choices to end up at the bottom of the barrel.
Since there have been a number of suggestions of how to torment one group of people at the very bottom of the social economic spectrum - perhaps people have some suggestions about how to go on the offensive against this other group of harmful parasites.
I hope I don't need the icon
CBGLuthier
(12,723 posts)but as it is, useless analogy.
And to be honest, I do not eat Fast food so technically, hell no i do not support FF workers.
Actually your analogy is very apt. Both industries do MORE HARM than GOOD and should go the FUCK away.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)I imagine it's rather convenient to be so disposed as to rationalize vulgarity and ugliness towards those who merely show up at one's door.
One may even believe it advertises more of your own character than that of those "beating" at your door (we are bemused though, by the use of the melodramatic as to better validate your actions... maybe a grim soundtrack by Hans Zimmer to really force the fiction)
shraby
(21,946 posts)B Calm
(28,762 posts)Whisp
(24,096 posts)who'd a thought so much of DU would be for it - to torment the poor.
Apparently just hanging up isn't fun or degrading enough.
Egalitarian Thug
(12,448 posts)starts using my phone minutes, or ignores the No Solicitors signs on the gate and the door in order to wake me up to tell me about a once-in-a-lifetime deal on having my car detailed, I'll be just as pissed at them.
Besides, these are those great jobs the President keeps saying are turning this economy around.
Demo_Chris
(6,234 posts)Don't.
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)No matter what you may think of the product fast food workers deliver to their customers, the fact remains that their customers ASK for it. Telemarketers are paid to harass people against their will. How on Earth do you view these situations as even remotely similar?
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)can find - Work that no one actually wants to do
tkmorris
(11,138 posts)Doesn't change anything though. I don't care HOW broke I get there is only one of those two occupations I would consider. Telemarketing of the sort we have been discussing is unethical to my mind and I would not do it.
It doesn't matter to me HOW much they sold their souls for, the fact that they have is what counts.
angstlessk
(11,862 posts)in fact no one where I worked harassed anyone....we simply asked people if they wanted what we were selling...I was not very good at it...the woman next to me was very good...and I felt ashamed...and SHE did not harass..she just had the voice that made people want to purchase from her...cause we both followed the same script...so voice had to make a difference...
I think I sounded condescending...people have accused me of being a snob..but it's my mother's fault..she taught us big words and proper English...
liberal N proud
(60,300 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)Initech
(99,914 posts)redqueen
(115,096 posts)I was told to offer fries to people if they didn't order them.
One old man decided he had the right to yell abuse at me for offering something he hadn't asked for.
People who enjoy being nasty and shitty to others whom they consider to be beneath them will find an excuse to be nasty and shitty.
MattBaggins
(7,894 posts)Do fast food workers come to my house knocking on my door all hour of the day?
Well this fails.
liberal_at_heart
(12,081 posts)the telemarketers themselves. They are just trying to earn a paycheck to feed their family. Tormenting someone over their job only makes the world a worse place, not a better place.