Remember that summer job??

Mansfield
Wed, 08 Sep 2010 17:05:40 +0000

I worked one summer as a telemarketer for Muscular Dystrophy. We had to cold call people, using a reverse directory, and ask them to solicit their neighbors for donations. If they agreed to do it, we would then send them a kit. We had to fill out “call sheets”, which listed our calls and what the response was. I was so bad at this job. I took it personally when people slammed the phone down on me. Once it got close to the end of the summer, I just put down anyone’s name on my call sheet, especially if they were mean to me. I’m sure in the mid 70s, there were lots of people who wondered why they were being sent Muscular Dystrophy solicitation kits. I didn’t care because by that time, I had quit.