Do you request to "hold?"

[AlphaFrog]

Telemarketers do, quite a bit. Most of them are instructed never to leave messages, and to get ahold of whoever their lead is, no matter what it takes. I usually answer the phone at my office, and unless the person has informed that they are a contractor, I assume, if they ask to be put on hold, that they are a telemarketer...so they get left on hold until I feel like dealing with them.