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Mar 3, 2010 6:34 pm

when i was interning as a cold caller before i got licensed i was qualifying a prospect while setting an appointment.  I asked him about assets and he hung up on me.  I was pretty shocked because he was a really nice guy, so i called back and got his vm.  I decided to send him an email with the information that we had discussed, and in a response he told me he hung up on me because if he needed so many assets to have “a cup of coffee and a donut” with the advisor i set it up for, (in bold capital letters) screw me.  he said to never call or email him again and he hopes i had to keep my suckd*** job until my wife collected the life insurance.  This was when i was a senior in college.

Mar 4, 2010 8:32 pm

I was cold calling one evening and got and man in 50s who just moved into town and he started asking me questions.  I’m thinking he’s got a 401k to rollover but it turned out he was a Merrill Lynch manager brought in to clean up a local office.  The best part of our conversation, and I swear this is the truth, is he had a porno film going in the background and never bothered to mute it…not even when…well, you get the idea.  I heard every last word and every sound from whatever film he was watching.

Mar 4, 2010 9:40 pm

Are you sure it was a film?

Mar 4, 2010 9:46 pm

That’s funny…but he was way too calm for that to be happening live, in front of him.  That was 10 years ago and I still laugh about it.