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les fleurs du mall posted:my best day at a callcentre was when between calls i listneed to the guy i sat next to. Hearing only half of the conversation as he said "you're right sir, i am an idiot. Now on a scale of 1 to 5...." I worked by the collections dept. and they had more leeway to say interesting things. One guy with an effeminate voice was always saying variations of "Sorry, you'll have to look elsewhere for a date." It seemed to amuse him but I doubt it encouraged people to pay their debts. Then again I suppose somebody who's swearing at a collector isn't likely to pay anyway. e: This thread seems more cheerful now. \/ \/ \/ \/ \/ Phobic Nest fucked around with this message at 16:22 on Oct 4, 2015 |
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the job i have noiw my boss is a ghost which is awkward
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Oct 4, 2015 16:22
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a carnival of friendly delights
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Oct 4, 2015 16:23
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why is it bad? people are mean to you on the phone and you can't hang up or something? legit curious goons I never worked in a call center.
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Oct 4, 2015 16:40
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Sinking Ship posted:why is it bad? people are mean to you on the phone and you can't hang up or something? legit curious goons I never worked in a call center. OP posted:My "boss" was a loving idiot. The pay was poo poo, the people were poo poo, everything was poo poo. OP posted:My "boss" was a loving idiot. The pay was poo poo, the people were poo poo, everything was poo poo. OP posted:My "boss" was a loving idiot. The pay was poo poo, the people were poo poo, everything was poo poo. these are universal constants in any telemarketing job. i didn't even get annoyed by people hanging up/being mean, because i would've done the same in their boots.
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Oct 4, 2015 16:45
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I worked at a telemarketing job for a week then I quit going. most of the chairs and mice were broken so this led to a couple girls getting into a physical fight over a desk. they were escorted outside for about 20 minutes then they came back inside to work. we had pizza on Friday because we scammed enough elderly for them to shell out for papa johns, nice. all the people who worked there more than a month were missing a significant amount of teeth so I guess selling sex wasn't lucrative enough. or it was their night job already.
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Oct 4, 2015 17:13
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Sinking Ship posted:why is it bad? people are mean to you on the phone and you can't hang up or something? legit curious goons I never worked in a call center. Never worked telemarketing but I have done call center work. When I started you could hang up on aggressive customers for swearing/insulting/threatening violence after warning then twice but by the time I left you were not allowed to hang up for any reason. Word of advice... Never work in a call center. Never been closer to suicide in my life. 
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Oct 4, 2015 17:23
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I work in retail, guess it could be worse.
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Oct 4, 2015 17:27
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rocket_man38 posted:I work in retail, guess it could be worse. no it couldnt u suck
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The Ghoul posted:Word of advice... took a train to work at a call center the amount of times I thought about just walking in-front of that train instead, or getting on and never coming back
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Oct 4, 2015 17:29
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Sinking Ship posted:why is it bad? people are mean to you on the phone and you can't hang up or something? legit curious goons I never worked in a call center. Worked at a call center doing ISP support like a decade ago. You couldn't fix anything and were basically there as a grief counselor/pressure release valve. People were upset that their service was crappy but felt better after yelling at someone for a while.
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Oct 4, 2015 17:31
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may i suggest not working in a call center?
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I don't work in a telemarketing place but I work at a call center for home security systems. I basically get paid to do my homework, except for last night. Last night I couldn't bother with homework so I played pokemon for 3 hours on my phone Someone had a meltdown because someone else stole about $6 worth of red bull from the fridge and management owes me like $100 in back pay, but I told them I'm not working any OT until they pay me. They're actively intimidated by me because they know I know I have a case if they fire me. It's pretty cool to be going to college and working at a place where just being in school puts you in the top 95% of employees, op
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moller posted:Worked at a call center doing ISP support like a decade ago. You couldn't fix anything and were basically there as a grief counselor/pressure release valve. People were upset that their service was crappy but felt better after yelling at someone for a while. Yeah same. Call center phone lines are prima facie evidence of why the USA needs an actual, functioning mental healthcare system.
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Oct 4, 2015 17:34
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Ratjaculation posted:no it couldnt u suck Ya.
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Oct 4, 2015 17:50
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have you guys considered looking elsewhere for employment?
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Oct 4, 2015 17:51
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here try this http://www.costco.com/jobs.html
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ROFLburger posted:have you guys considered looking elsewhere for employment? thank you for this advice
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Oct 4, 2015 18:06
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ROFLburger posted:have you guys considered looking elsewhere for employment? i'm going to download a job
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I love call center work but I'm not loving going to a call center. Remote from home or nothin'. Mostly because while I'm being the most painfully perky sugary person in the world I can be mspainting "gently caress you cocksucker" all over my screen.
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moller posted:Worked at a call center doing ISP support like a decade ago. You couldn't fix anything and were basically there as a grief counselor/pressure release valve. People were upset that their service was crappy but felt better after yelling at someone for a while. Same, for 8.50 an hour  I asked for a day off so I could go to my high school graduation ceremony, and they denied my time off request. I put in my notice, best decision I have ever made.
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Oct 4, 2015 18:56
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Ardemia posted:
jfc I think telemarking is one of the few rare jobs that if I was nearly homeless, I still would not be able to bring myself to do it. Not because it's a hard job, but for moral reasons mostly. I wonder how having 95% of your workforce quitting within 6 months is not completely abysmal for productivity and cost management?
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I gotta get a dancing avatar
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Most soul-crushing poo poo I ever did was hook people for future calls from seedy non-accredited "colleges" all but promising them jobs. I've since repressed/forgotten the names of the colleges and the names of the sites that were used to pool numbers for us to call, but it was some sad poo poo talking to people all across the US and me asking "why not" repeatedly and them eventually caving in and giving a very real response. But you have to keep pushing or else loving Tony or Roger is going to be up your rear end why you're letting these people off the hook. You're NEVER supposed to terminate the call, or let up in the inquisition. The call centre itself was hidden in a building advertising a non-existent business that would not attract attention. The administration office across the street was conveniently located just down the street from the city's main police station, as if the people who chose the site knew full well that disgruntled former employees would want to gently caress with it, as many I spoke to did. The nature of the work was second only to the abuse suffered at the hands of supervisors. I lasted less than 3 weeks. Couldn't wait to get the gently caress out of there and start pouring coffee. Cleaning cages at the zoo is a better job.
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I sold insurance over the phone for a total of 1 day. If you can call it that. The only saving grace was that my dial area had a lot of dead numbers and I got like $5 for making the most dials that day. Then I left no call/no show.
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~ hello this is microsoft support calling we have a problem with your computer~ "uhmm, ok" ~your microsoft computer is not registered and you may be gacing a crime~ "go on" ~to be sure your microsoft computer is valid we need you to visit this website, also we need the last four digits of your social security number~ "ok, one second" 5 minutes pass "you still there?" ~hello sir we are the support of microsoft do you have the numbers?~ "213 4730 476 uninteliginae;" ~ok, no i need you to go to this website https://www. and download the microsoft verification tool~ "give me a minute" 15 minutes later with a lame rear end computer i built to amuse me "you still there?" ~yes sir go to https://www. and download the microsoft verification tool~ "ok now it says i need java to install?" ~that is correct sir, download the java at ************.js.in~ "ok now its saying its looking at the files" ~if you don't pay us 5000 us dollars in the next 15 minutes all your data is deleted~ "thats not nice, how can you slap"
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Melmac posted:I wonder how having 95% of your workforce quitting within 6 months is not completely abysmal for productivity and cost management? The place I worked at had a 90 day "training period" (as if training took more than an hour lol) where if you quit they'd only pay you minimum wage. It's probably temporarily profitable to try making your employees ragequit though I'd imagine replacements would get scarce after a while.
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Hooded Reptile posted:~ hello this is microsoft support calling we have a problem with your computer~ While I didn't get any info I could use to report them to law enforcement the amount of time I wasted probably resulted in at least one of them getting docked or beaten.
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evening shift at sprint for 2 years in like 2003 & used all my vacation constantly & signed up to go home early everyday & drank a lot
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karma_coma posted:evening shift at sprint for 2 years in like 2003 & used all my vacation constantly & signed up to go home early everyday & drank a lot Hell yea, my buddy
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one time at the call center I worked at, it was so dead we decided to all play UT99 over LAN it lasted until the slavic dude on our team yelled HEAD SHOT at the top of his lungs management put a stop to it after that
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Melmac posted:I wonder how having 95% of your workforce quitting within 6 months is not completely abysmal for productivity and cost management? You pay them peanuts and ride the occasional idiot that thinks they can advance into the company into the ground as hard as you can before they wise up and leave
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Oct 5, 2015 03:24
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i would like a job where i don't talk with idiots on the phone. it's been so long.
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During a particularly lean period, I had to temp until I could find a real job. I thought working on the floor of a cat litter factory for a week was the worst job I would ever have. Then I went to a high-pressure call center and had to adjust that assessment.
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