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how not to have to do what they've asked
Yeah, here's the thing. I'm not a huge fan of making cold calls, but I'm not bad at it -- when I know what I'm talking about. In this case, where you want me to call Random Businesses and get contact names and whatnot, I'm likely to freeze up and stammer and there's a very real possibility that I'll get something wrong and misrepresent your organization, all because I don't really work here and I'm not a hundred percent sure what's going on.
Fortunately, after a couple of hours' worth of hemming and hawing and doing a project for someone else, I went back to the person who had given me the assignment whose next task was going to involve the cold calls, and I said listen, [above stuff about not really knowing the details], so is there something else I can do for her that would give her the time to make whatever calls she needed made, and she said Sure, she completely understood. So I'm off that particular hook. Thank god.
Fortunately, after a couple of hours' worth of hemming and hawing and doing a project for someone else, I went back to the person who had given me the assignment whose next task was going to involve the cold calls, and I said listen, [above stuff about not really knowing the details], so is there something else I can do for her that would give her the time to make whatever calls she needed made, and she said Sure, she completely understood. So I'm off that particular hook. Thank god.