How do you treat telemarketers/phone surveyors when they call?

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I’d like to pull a Seinfeld on them, but I usually just say I don’t have time, and please not to call. I treat them like waitstaff – as long as they aren’t pushy. They are, after all, just people doing their jobs.

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