'working for a tech company' is meaningless if you just answer the phones

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HollywoodDialysis: Jan 19, 2005; not doing nothing; Grimey Drawer

Sorry to pop a bubble yo but working for Google in SF is a waste of time because the city eats your rent and the first chance they get you're offered an exciting opportunity to move to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and waste the rest of your life giving birth to people who, like you, will live and die in a call center.

https://backchannel.com/those-entry-level-startup-jobs-they-re-now-mostly-dead-ends-in-the-boondocks-af3b4066f5dd#.absfvt735%5C

My favorite part is when Lyfy/Google/Uber/Yelp open a call center in hoo-balley-NoWhere the local mayor can't help but crow that 'Silicon Valley is coming to save us from our own mediocrity with an exciting phone banking opportunity'

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And there are constant ~~reminders~~ writings on the wall that they were the company�s bottom-of-the-barrel staffers, priority-wise, even beyond their low salaries. At Lyft, entry-level customer service reps didn�t get stock options. On weekends, the company sometimes forgot to refill snacks until a manager made a fuss about it. There was no catered lunch on weekends or Thanksgiving, when a manager went to buy pies at Whole Foods as a consolation prize. To promote team cohesion, engineers would get treated to an all-day trip to the go-kart track. Bonding on the customer support team meant ordering pizza after hours in a nearby park. They know this isn�t exactly boohoo territory � this isn�t Talia eating only rice � but relative to the other employees, �You�re like scraping by doing the shittiest job at this company and constantly being marginalized,� says one of the former reps. �There was a lot of stratification with regards to compensation.�

An MBA would tell you that only makes sense. Customer service mostly requires an ever-cheery personality, a good work ethic, and basic computer skills � not a CS degree, and really, not even college, though startups are certainly selecting places with eager college grads. A manager at Salesforce�s San Francisco office sizes up the tech industry�s attitude towards customer service: ��How do we make this cost less?� Every support case can cost up to $30 for them. You cost them a lot of money and don�t bring in a lot of revenue.� Still, �They can�t run the company without you.�

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Hogge Wild: Aug 21, 2012; by FactsAreUseless; Pillbug

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# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:29

Nooner: Mar 26, 2011; AN A+ OPSTER (:

im reading this on webTV

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:32

Dial-a-Dog: May 22, 2001

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this isn�t Talia eating only rice

lol, talia wasn't talia eating only rice either. Also lol at customer support people whining about their jobs. If you don't want to kill yourself by the end of your shift it's probably in the top 10% of customer service jobs

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:34

The Revenant: Feb 2, 2016; by Lowtax

gently caress tech companies gently caress millennials gently caress you

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:34

Nooner: Mar 26, 2011; AN A+ OPSTER (:

can you faX ME A copy of ThiS ThrEAD?

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:35

doctorfrog: Mar 14, 2007; Great.

The Revenant posted:

gently caress tech companies gently caress millennials gently caress you

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:37

A ILL BREAKFAST: Jun 9, 2007; *unsheathes katana*

id rather lay pavers for the rest of my life than work in a call center again. dadburn kids unwilling to get their hands dirty

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:39

Falun Bong Refugee: Dec 14, 2015; by FactsAreUseless

You expect me to read an awful lot to understand your retarded op.

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:41

Ride The Gravitron: May 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Lol at jobs that ask for a bachelor's for a job answering phones

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:43

The Brown Menace: Dec 24, 2010; Now comes in all colors.

who the gently caress cares about working for tech companies, that poo poo is for people who poo poo on the streets

# ? Mar 26, 2016 18:43

Horniest Manticore: Nov 23, 2013; Hello, you!; Lipstick Apathy

The Brown Menace posted:

who the gently caress cares about working for tech companies, that poo poo is for people who poo poo on the streets

you mean indians?

# ? Mar 26, 2016 19:13

Horniest Manticore: Nov 23, 2013; Hello, you!; Lipstick Apathy

"Thank you sir I would be more than happy to assist you with your street making GBS threads in the most timely possible manner."

# ? Mar 26, 2016 19:15

nomadologique: Mar 9, 2011; DUNK A DILL PICKLE REALDO

thanks i finally know what to call my life's work

# ? Mar 26, 2016 20:06

MiracleWhale: Jun 30, 2015

smh. if you work where the *real* decisions are made, phones aren't even allowed

you gotta strip naked at the entrance and they check your anus and tear ducts for microfilm cameras

you think the one world government is gonna let you sneak out a copy of their plans for the global thought control quantum antennas by tattooing them on the inside of your eyelids with a sharpened fingernail and the ink tube from a bic pen?! I can tell you from experience: THINK AGAIN, BOY-O!

# ? Mar 26, 2016 21:41

Darkman Fanpage: Jul 4, 2012

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way to channel the spirit of yospos

# ? Mar 26, 2016 21:42

rakovsky maybe: Nov 4, 2008

no catered lunch on weekends???

gently caress this poo poo im out!

# ? Mar 26, 2016 21:59

The Revenant: Feb 2, 2016; by Lowtax

You're bitchmade if you work on weekends at a loving office job lmao.

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:08

Sizone: Sep 13, 2007; by LadyAmbien

I invented a new greeting gesture. I call it a "low two" it consists of pulling your nuts out of your pants and slapping them against another set of nuts. sadly, it can only be performed by two men and only in warmer temperatures. I guess it is most suitable as a replacement for the fist bump.

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:24

My Rhythmic Crotch: Jan 13, 2011

that article is long and stupid

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:35

Dr Cheeto: Mar 2, 2013; Wretched Harp

My Rhythmic Crotch posted:

that article is long and stupid

Sounds like my last boyfriend heyooooo

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:38

Ride The Gravitron: May 2, 2008; by FactsAreUseless

Dr Cheeto posted:

Sounds like my last boyfriend heyooooo

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:39

Mumpy Puffinz: Aug 11, 2008; Nap Ghost

HollywoodDialysis posted:

Sorry to pop a bubble yo but working for Google in SF is a waste of time because the city eats your rent and the first chance they get you're offered an exciting opportunity to move to Sioux Falls, South Dakota and waste the rest of your life giving birth to people who, like you, will live and die in a call center.

https://backchannel.com/those-entry-level-startup-jobs-they-re-now-mostly-dead-ends-in-the-boondocks-af3b4066f5dd#.absfvt735%5C

My favorite part is when Lyfy/Google/Uber/Yelp open a call center in hoo-balley-NoWhere the local mayor can't help but crow that 'Silicon Valley is coming to save us from our own mediocrity with an exciting phone banking opportunity'

sorry you work in a call center. That must be horrible

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:41

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a shiny rock: Nov 13, 2009

Mumpy Puffinz posted:

sorry you work in a call center. That must be horrible

# ? Mar 26, 2016 22:44

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