Phone Warrior Mugs

"I'm not trying to sell you anything, sir. I'm doing market research, and all I ask is two or three hours of your time to answer a few thousand questions."

'Thank you for holding.'

Assertiveness training - man answers phone; 'Can I get back to you? How about when I'm darned good and ready?'

"Dave's away from his desk, I'm afraid. Can I take a message, or read you his browser history."

'If this is the conflict resolution hotline, why are you ticking me off??!!

Call Center.

Strip: Call Centres

'Oh no - another blasted cold call!'

"Hello, Mr. Gottlieb of Acme Telemarketing? Oh, did I interrupt your dinner...?"

'My land line is always busy...that's my answering machine fending off robocalls.'

'Just once I'd like to hand up on a wrong number before they hang up on me!

'As a matter of fact, I am in the middle of something.'

"That was a telemarketer, not a robo call. It felt good to cuss out a real person."

'It's that automated heavy breathing again.'

Angry telephone call.

“Something’s wrong with my android.”

"Is 'disgusted with the whole lot of them' a choice?"

Ban on Free Speech

Spammatic blaster - gun to shoot pop-up ads.

"Dude, I'm losing you in this tunnel."

"If we gave them press freedom they'd only want democracy too..."

'I'm sick of answering the phone - half the time, it's about business!'

A Journalist's Weapons

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'I have the MRI scan of your brain. The right hemisphere is clogged with computer passwords.'

"Your call is important to us. Your estimated wait time is less than five hours."

Censorship is killing free society.

"We understand you're not happy with our privacy policy."

"He's joined a whatsapp group for fans of Matt Hancock's Whatsapp messages."

"When they said I'll get unlimited calls and texts with my new mobile contract, I didn't realise they would all be from PPI insurance companies....."

"We already changed our phone service to something or other last week, so we don't need whatever it is you have."

"We don't need a digital security guard. Hackers don't actually come to our house."

'I'm pleased to announce the newly-created 'Office of Homepage Security' - to protect against computer hackers.'

"Whatever the politicians might decide, I'm well prepared because I've got enough hate comments for the next five years!"

"Ms Hathaway, I need to test my mettle. Find someone on social media who thinks they can bully me."