A robot which wastes telemarketers time
The Jolly Roger Telephone Company has designed a robot which will waste telemarketers’ time when they call your number.
“The Jolly Roger Telephone Co. provides a friendly, agreeable, patient robot that talks to these rude telemarketers for you,” the company explained.
“It is happy to chat, and will typically keep an unwary salesperson engaged for several minutes.”
The man behind the project, Roger Anderson, said telemarketing companies have technology on their side with robotic auto-dialers, robotic soundboards, and an array of other tools.
“Their weak spot is that they need human agents to talk to you when you answer. So the only way to stop this intrusive industry is to waste their precious human resource,” he said.
Examples of the robot talking to telemarketers
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