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Comic and Rant for Thursday, April 11, 2002
Stop Telemarketing Now! |
Before I do anything else, I’d best relay this important message Jeff sent me: For those of you that care about seeing ALL of your films, Disney has decided that all of their “family” titles (including the Muppet movies they own, possibly even classic animation, they were very non-specific) are going to be Pan &Scan only.Now that that’s out of the way, I’d best apologize for the lateness of today’s installments. I have, at least, a partial excuse in that I was nearly out of the 9x12 157 Lb Bristol plate I draw the strip on. I actually had enough to do today’s, but I figured it was best to first go out and get more in case, by some miracle, I was inspired to draw more (it does sometimes happen!). And so, of course, I couldn’t find any 9x12 board of any surface type. All I could find was slightly too big (11x14, IIRC) and way too big (14x17). After much running around (and getting confused looks from people in office supply stores who had never the word “Bristol” in their lives), finally bought the 14x17 and cut it down to 8 1/2x12. That’s not the only reason everything’s late, but it’s the only one that’s not completely my fault. I hope to catch up by not doing a rant for Saturday. Regarding the strip: Yes, the device really does exist (well, not the modified version ...). It’s made by Zenith, retails for around $20 (IIRC), and its model number is ZEP100. I’d link to it, but I couldn’t find it on Zenith’s webpage, which is a bit of a mess (though it probably doesn’t help that I don’t remember the gadget’s name!). Actually, though, you don’t need a machine to deal with telemarketers. Having worked (past tense) as one, I can tell you that yelling, swearing, hanging up, and even saying you’re not interested aren’t going to stop the calls (where I worked, and very likely at other telemarketing places, the closest selection to “Not Interested” was “Other”). You need to politely tell them that you want to be removed from their calling list (“Please remove me from your calling list.” would seem the best phrase to use). That’s it. Of course my little toy does the same thing, but why spend money when you can just say seven simple words? Okay, so I bought three of them, but at the time I didn’t know any better. Nice to know I’ve learned something since that time! The T-shirts are based on a rather tenuous connection, namely that the sole unnamed client of the unnamed telemarketing firm I worked for was a coffee company (and it wasn’t Starbucks!). Click here for more info on Jeff’s shirt (no, he doesn’t reallyhave one AFAIK). That’s really all that’s relevant. Maybe Tuesday I can finally rant on an unrelated topic again. |
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