Do You Hang Up On People?

@Rozie37 (15499)
Turkmenistan
July 3, 2007 3:19pm CST
When people call you and you don't want to talk, do you ever just flat out hang up in their faces? If a bill collector, telemarketer, enemy, wrong number, friend that you are mad at, or an ex boyfriend or girlfriend calls, do you ever hang up in their faces?
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• United States
3 Jul 07
Oh, definitely. Except I would never just hang up on a friend not without them knowing why. We would probably have to already be in an argument that caused me to hang up on them.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
3 Jul 07
So, is that it. No forgiveness or nothing, when you are done, you are done, right?
• United States
4 Jul 07
Forgiveness of who... the telemarketer? I mean the way I see it if I am on the phone with someone like that then I am doing both of us a favor by ending the conversation. I only hang up if it is someone who won't listen to me having tried telling them that I can't talk to them now. And as far as friends or anyone that matters- like I said I wouldn't hang up on them unless we were in the middle of an argument and that ended up being the response I felt necessary at that time.
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@Flight84 (3048)
• United States
3 Jul 07
I have done that in the past, but now if it's someone I don't want to talk to, I just don't answer. Ah...the power of Caller ID.:) It also helps with telemarketers that I am on North Carolina's DO NOT CALL registry list for troublesome calls. I still get a few, but not nearly as many as I was getting.
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
3 Jul 07
Yes, I am on California's DO NOT Call registry also and I believe that it has helped me, now that you mention it. I do not have Caller I.D., I use to have it, but my family gets an attitude when I ignore them. I can't change families, so I just decided to accommodate them. I do my best to answer the phone when I am in.
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@magnet (2087)
• United States
10 Jul 07
I only hang up on telemarketers. First I tell them that I'm not interested then if they keep talking I just hang up on them.
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
10 Jul 07
This is one of those times when you really have no choice. They invade your private time, talking about things that you are not interested in, but when you tell them that you aren't interested, they act like they don't hear you or don't care. Sometimes, I think that maybe when we interupt the sales pitch that they have worked so hard to memorize, it throws them way off. The other day I was talking to one and she got and attitude with me because I kept asking questions before she could get to that part. She was saying, wait, I will get to that in a minute. Finally, I hung up and put her out of her misery.
• United States
4 Jul 07
I hang up on people who call to sell something after you tell them that you aren't interested. I also hang up if someone calls me and and within 30 seconds put me on hold because they have a call on another line. I can't stand that being left on hold. Lloyd
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@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
4 Jul 07
I know what you mean about being put on hold. We have to deal with that all day long with businesses. What I do is if I have to wait, I will play solitaire on my computer to pass the time. It helps some.
• Canada
13 Jul 07
I don't hang up on people. With telemarketers, I try to cut them short, politely, and just explain that I'm not interested in their offer. Most of the time, I do listen to telemarketers, unless I truly am not interested in whatever they're phoning about. I realize that telemarketers are doing a job and they need to get paid and just do their job, too. I used to work in a call centre, telemarketing, so I know it's not the greatest job for most people...but it pulls in a paycheque, and that is important. I try not to hang up on anyone. If I am having a disagreement with someone, I do let them know that I think the argument is going nowhere but I am going to hang up now and talk to them at a better time. I usually ask them if they heard me and then hang up. I rarely just hang up on someone. I think that it's better to let them know, first, why I am going to stop talking to them for a while. I have better results this way than when I USED TO HANG UP on people haha They usually just phone back right away to continue the disagreement. If I tell someone that I am hanging up - just to break from the argument for a while - they usually don't call me back again, knowing that I didn't 'end' the issue - I just took a pause!
@Rozie37 (15499)
• Turkmenistan
13 Jul 07
Well, I am proud of you. You must be an extremely patient person. I would like to be that mature in handling annoying bill collectors and such, one day. But as of now, I just don't know how to keep my cool, but I need to work on that. I think the main thing with me is that I have this almost obsession with not wasting time. When I feel that I am wasting time, I become impatient, but I will have to work on that.
• Canada
18 Jul 07
No, I'm not very patient at all - but I force myself to be patient with telemarketers whenever I can. I remember how awful that job was at certain times of day. I know how discouraging it used to be for me to have people talk to me like it was my sole purpose in life to phone them while they were having supper and ruin their supper haha. Really, I was just trying to 'work' like most other people. As for not hanging up in other situations...well, I finally learned that the more I hang up - without CALMLY explaining why I want to leave the phone conversation - the more people would call me back up to tell me "How DARE How DARE - You hung up on me!" :)
• United States
5 Jul 07
Yes, at times I have been known to hang up on people. Sales people I give them the opportunity ot hear me say "I am not interested" then I hang up. I have hung up on my mom when we have gotten into a argument.
@marciascott (25529)
• United States
3 Jul 07
My Husband does this all the time, especially if he is mad. he does it to me all the time.
@Shaun72 (15959)
• Palatka, Florida
4 Jul 07
Yeah if I was fighting with them on the phone I have hung up on them. Like friends or ex. boyfriends. I have also hung up on bill collecters. I don't like paying bills through a check over the phone I tell them it's in the mail.
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@sigma77 (5383)
• United States
4 Jul 07
No, I don't directly hang up. I tell them I don't want to talk and try to be polite as possible, that is usually. It depends on who it is and what they are selling.
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@freak369 (5113)
• United States
4 Jul 07
I try to avoid that by not answering numbers that I don't recognize. That's the greatest thing about Caller ID, you can choose to answer it or let it go to voice mail. It is annoying to get those wrong number calls at three in the morning though, especially when they argue that they dialed the right number when you know they didn't.
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@Michele21 (3093)
• United States
4 Jul 07
Yes I have hung up on many people!! If telemarketers don't take no for an answer and keep trying to talk to me I will hang up. And I have hung up on some ex's when we were fighting or whatever =)
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• United States
12 Jul 07
I do all the time specially when you tell them that you are not interested and they call back in five minutes. Those are the people I get mad at.
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@SmokePiff (436)
• United States
3 Jul 07
i have to admit that i do hang up on people. i haven't done it in a while cuz that person hasn't called me in a while. but now im just into ignoring phone calls if its someone i really don't care to talk to i just send them straight to my voice mail
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• United States
9 Jul 07
heck yes. grr i hate people trying to sell you stuff on the phone. but anyway. yes i hang up in their faces all the time. although most time if like a telemarketer called you. its a machine so i don't really hang up in their faces. but anyway anyway. i think those people deserve to get hang up. yes.
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• Canada
3 Jul 07
I never hang up on people. When I know they won't give up their poor behaviour, I just sit back and watch them make a fool of themselves, or wait for them to eventually hang up on me. That way I never lose.
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