Let me help you parse that there. When you told him your boss was gone he figured you might be giving him false information so he kept bugging you in the hope that you would give up and put him through. He had absolutely nothing to lose by doing this, since if you were telling the truth he had no hope of getting through anyway. Telemarketers are like cops: they deal almost exclusively with the worst side of humanity for a living, so they don’t trust words, only actions.
