the.com/telemarketer

A stranger paid to interrupt your dinner and sell you regret.

means Someone whose job is to call strangers on the phone to sell products or services, usually unsolicited.

from A straightforward 20th-century blend of 'tele-' (Greek for 'far off,' the same root as television and telephone) and 'marketer.' It surfaced as telephone-based sales grew into their own industry, with 'telemarketing' entering wide use around the 1970s as a brisk, businesslike label for what was, from the start, a mixed blessing to whoever picked up the phone.

call timing
designed to hit dinner hour on purpose
script reliance
most read from scripts they didn't write
robocall truth
many are just algorithms wearing human voices
job turnover
one of the highest quit rates of any job
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