That was the delightfully friendly (fiendly?) way a telemarketer opened what turned out to be a delightfully short conversation with whoever delightfully answered our phone.
Telemarketing seems to have spiraled a long way downward from its warm, fuzzy origins. At one time telemarketing was aspiring to be the marketing media monarch. Now it’s an ancillary, victim of both prejudice and abuse.
The days of starting a call by self-identification, or even with the boilerplate
