{"id":89,"date":"2006-06-30T15:06:05","date_gmt":"2006-06-30T15:06:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.bananasplit.info\/?p=89"},"modified":"2006-06-30T15:06:34","modified_gmt":"2006-06-30T15:06:34","slug":"telemarketing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=89","title":{"rendered":"Telemarketing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today my phone has rung a few times and stopped before I could pick it up.  The calling number was 0800 0641081 so I thought I&#8217;d ring it and find out who the idiot is who calls and instantly hangs up.  Turns out the number belongs to a company called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbm.co.uk\/\">LBM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>LBM is a results driven marketing company that designs and delivers unique marketing and planning strategies for businesses throughout the UK. Established in 1996, we now employ approaching 2000 staff across seven sites.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And from their Recruitment page:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If your personality rings true on the telephone, you have every chance of making it as an LBM Telesales Agent!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In other words, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbm.co.uk\/\">LBM<\/a> are a telesales company who phone peoples&#8217; mobiles and hassle the shit out them to buy something they don&#8217;t want.  Wow, and if my personality rings true, I can get a job in telesales.  Lucky me!  No doubt they have found loopholes in the minimum wage so they can pay 2000 immigrants a paltry salary that wouldn&#8217;t keep a cat alive, whilst making them work 12 hour days phoning soon to be angry people.<\/p>\n<p>Well done <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbm.co.uk\/\">LBM<\/a>, you make us all proud to be British.    Perhaps I&#8217;m doing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lbm.co.uk\/\">LBM<\/a> an injustice, but I doubt it.  If I can pick up the phone fast enough, perhaps I&#8217;ll find out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today my phone has rung a few times and stopped before I could pick it up. The calling number was 0800 0641081 so I thought I&#8217;d ring it and find out who the idiot is who calls and instantly hangs up. Turns out the number belongs to a company called LBM. From their website: LBM&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/?p=89\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Telemarketing<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rants","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=89"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=89"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=89"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.stmellion.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=89"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}