I worked doing telephone surveys for a summer. It could really wear on you when people weren&#x27;t polite. (And simply saying &quot;No thanks&quot; and hanging up was polite enough.)<p>People who hung up right off, workers tended to say (to the disconnected line), &quot;I&#x27;m sorry, I believe the call got cut off. I&#x27;ll set you up for auto-reply every five minutes...&quot;