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Transcript: Commentary: Depriving telemarketers of what might be their worst job ever
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- NPR All Things Considered
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- September 17, 2003
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Commentary: Depriving telemarketers of what might be their worst job
ever
Host: MICHELE NORRIS
Time: 8:00-9:00 PM
ANNABELLE GURWITCH:
Last week, I gleefully punched in my phone number at the Do Not Call
Government Registry Web site.
MICHELE NORRIS, host:
Commentator Annabelle Gurwitch.
GURWITCH: I haven't clicked on to the link that ensures your registration
yet because I have a confession to make. In the late '80s, I worked
for a week in phone sales.
I was one in a group of underemployed 20-something actor-musician-
novelist types who were just broke enough to be tempted by a cash
job with flexible hours. We were seated in rows of ...