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Fending off insurance surveys

May 5th, 2008 by lynnylchan under Comments

My phone just rang, and I thought it was one of my friends so I answered without looking at the screen.

A chirpy voice asked, “Hello, may I speak to Lynn Chang?” Yes, there was definitely a ‘g’ hovering around the end of my name. I asked the caller to identify herself, and she said she was from Prudential, and could I spare 3 minutes to take a survey.

What the hell, it’s past 9pm at night and I have nothing to do, so let’s help out someone who’s getting paid by the hour.

Her first question: “Are you Singaporean or PR?”

I answered, “Neither.” Which is perfectly true.

“Okay, thank you, bye bye!” And she hangs up.

Well! That was fun and painless! Now I know what to answer to these surveys.

Mind you, this might only work for surveys, and not for hardcore cold-calling salespeople, who couldn’t care less if you were a deposed dictator of some tiny country somewhere who now spends half the year fishing the Arctic sea for crabs, as long as they make a sale.