Inside the desperate world of high-pressure phone sales

"People don't buy out of need or desire; they buy because they've been sold," writes Franklin Schneider in a 2024 essay in Slate about his experience as "the No. 1 telemarketer in the United States."

The environment was depressing — "low-ceilinged, fluorescent-lit office building at the edge of town, the empty liquor bottles piled up in the men's room, a time capsule of a world that came and went nearly unnoticed." — Read the rest

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