I used to work as a telemarketer because there was a recession on and that was the only job I could find after months of looking. I was literally a couple weeks away from being homeless, so I wasn&#x27;t much inclined to care if I was causing hassle. It&#x27;s legal, there&#x27;s a market for it, and I need to eat.<p>If it makes you feel better about yourself to shit on your economic inferiors, you go right ahead. But if you think you&#x27;re teaching that telemarketer a lesson or somehow punishing them, you&#x27;re not. They won&#x27;t even remember you at the end of the day. You are one of 100+ calls that telemarketer has to make every day. And if you don&#x27;t say the magic words &quot;please take my name off your list&quot;, they will call you again next week. So you&#x27;re really just wasting your own time.