Do you find telemarketing calls exceptionally annoying?

There are a few things in the world that get on my nerves. Telemarketers are one of them. From 10 calls I receive on my home phone a good half is from various telemarketers. For a few months it was constant "duct cleaning" calls. Now after several Toronto area duct cleaning companies fined, their place is taken by "a special offer from Marriott Hotel". I am still sufficiently rational thinking that I will continue staying at Marriott Hotel on occasion, but I already have doubts.

So this is my black list:

• Companies and people who either trade our phone numbers for a fee, or fail to keep them safe.
• Companies who believe that an aggressive marketing would instantly bring them more business.
• Engineers and software developers willing to work for telemarketers.
• Companies who believe that cheap overseas telemarketers would bring them more business.
• Overseas telemarketers who first do not care about our regulations, and second hire staff with no manners and poor English (well, for that paycheck who can they hire anyway?).
• Inefficient regulation, slow response from CRTC, and lack of initiative from phone companies (just you wait guys, people will be ditching their land lines en masse).

Questions to telemarketing business owners and reps:

• Do you have fun getting people annoyed?
• Aren't you afraid of bad Karma?
• Do you still think that this your occupation is a temporary one, and soon you will move to doing something real?
• When you receive telemarketing calls yourself, do you always like them?

On YouTube
How to handle a telemarketer call

My next rant will probably be about guys testing their car's sub-woofers on driveways. ARRRGH!!!