Re: Bag or sack


Father Ignatius wrote:
In news:jtb9a2p6bk6cmn0jnlbts7up4lb228j1s6@xxxxxxx,
Oleg Lego <rat@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> typed:

I tend to just hang up, though occasionally, I will tell them I don't
respond to cold calls, and to just stop calling me. Then I hang up. At
no time am I polite to them. They do not deserve politeness.

The politeness is not for them, but for one's own sense of self.

And spare a thought for the kids at the call centre: they're generally
doing it for the shortest possible time until they can get another job.
They're enjoying it even less than their victims are (WeirdSalBrE: "are
doing").

ObAUE: SAfrE [at least] has this interesting use of "not to be", e.g. "Not
to be[1] rude, or anything, but I don't respond to cold calls. Good-bye.
[click]"


[1] BrE: "I'm not trying to be funny, but..."

That "Not to be..." is OtherE, too. Also "Not being..." as truncated
form of "I'm not being..." I once saw a fly-on-the-wall job in which a
Brit boss in a fraught meeting said something abrupt to his secretary,
heard himself, and said "I'm not being rude", heard himself, and said
"Yes, I am. Sorry. Pay no attention to me."

--
Mike.

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