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what was wrong with the kitty litter? dusty?
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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. I worked in a call centre a decade ago for 2 weeks. We had to get to work at 2am to phone australians and convince them to go to a seminar to buy timeshare holidays. I got let go when they caught on I wasn't dialling, just doing the pitch to a dialling tone because Aussies are some properly brutal bastards.
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Oct 5, 2015 04:50
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i dont understand the appeal of these jobs. I see them constantly. you make less than you do working at like a Target.
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Oct 5, 2015 04:52
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:i dont understand the appeal of these jobs. I see them constantly. you make less than you do working at like a Target. bc capitalism is evil
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Oct 5, 2015 04:56
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TheReverend posted:what was wrong with the kitty litter? dusty? It was like spending 8 hours a day in a raging sandstorm. Those fine particulates got everywhere. The most unbelievable thing was that there were several guys who had worked there for years. 
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Oct 5, 2015 05:05
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One time I whistled into the receiver and it really pissed off the teledude on the other side. Sorry dude. Never do that.
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Oct 5, 2015 05:09
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ghlbtsk posted:It was like spending 8 hours a day in a raging sandstorm. Did you have to palletize those drat heavy bags or was it robotic.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:43
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I work at the chocolate and sex factory, where we make chocolate and sex all day
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Oct 5, 2015 19:46
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wide stance posted:Did you have to palletize those drat heavy bags or was it robotic. The facility was straight out of the 19th century. Everything was wood and metal and nothing was computerized.
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Oct 5, 2015 19:58
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ghlbtsk posted:The most unbelievable thing was that there were several guys who had worked there for years. They must have some pretty decent lung cancers and poo poo now
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Oct 5, 2015 20:18
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if you work in a call center make sure you get a daily tetanus shot
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Oct 5, 2015 20:26
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If I had fallen to my lowest depths I could maybe see myself working in a support call center to pay bills. But gently caress telemarketing. I'll be homeless/dead before I subject myself to that.
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Oct 5, 2015 20:32
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Libelous Slander posted:Id rather go to prison than work in a call center again Guess what they do in prison! http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/01/12/10140493-inside-the-secret-industry-of-inmate-staffed-call-centers?lite
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Oct 5, 2015 20:37
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THE DOG HOUSE posted:i dont understand the appeal of these jobs. I see them constantly. you make less than you do working at like a Target. They'll hire anybody, it's physically easy to do, and some money is better than no money
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Oct 5, 2015 20:38
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i actually got recommended for a promotion at my call center job but immediately said no and walked out of the room when they told me i would be on call 24 hours a day with a straight face half of the office applies for it whenever the current person gets burned out after a month and quits. i dont understand why they do it to themselves.
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Oct 6, 2015 03:45
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This is the biggest first world problem. You aren't fighting someone else's war while your buddies kill themselves after getting home. You don't have to leave the ergonomic air conditioned office and you don't have to even think about work after punching your time card.
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Oct 6, 2015 04:01
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lampey posted:This is the biggest first world problem. You aren't fighting someone else's war while your buddies kill themselves after getting home. You don't have to leave the ergonomic air conditioned office and you don't have to even think about work after punching your time card. Awful jobs that offer poo poo pay to desperate people are not First World Problems. They are universal. Just because you have air conditioning doesn't mean it's not a horrible stressful job.
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Oct 6, 2015 04:05
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How is telemarketing even a valid business model? Who is buying poo poo from twenty-something goons calling them up at home?
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Oct 6, 2015 04:10
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lampey posted:This is the biggest first world problem. You aren't fighting someone else's war while your buddies kill themselves after getting home. You don't have to leave the ergonomic air conditioned office and you don't have to even think about work after punching your time card. Sounds like someone hasn't taken 10-15 minute doses of pure hate coming through a telephone for 9 hours a day. And it's all very well documented and recorded by big brother so if you aren't a chipper little gently caress you get the axe next time budget cuts come around.
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Oct 6, 2015 04:26
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I've only done political phonebanking, which is pretty poo poo. But not nearly as poo poo as telemarketing, no doubt. That is a job designed to make you kill yourself and everyone around you. How does the pay structure usually work, anyway? If I want to share the fruit of my kind heart, should I kill a couple minutes to engage in friendly conversation without buying poo poo, or just politely let them get back to phoning up people who want them to drown in piss?
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Oct 6, 2015 04:32
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ROFLburger posted:here try this http://www.costco.com/jobs.html You probably shouldn't apply for jobs where there aren't gonna be thousands of applicants for each vacant position unless you're really qualified
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Oct 6, 2015 04:48
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i started a business recently and as such i had to print my name and phone number in the paper, etc. motherfuckers have been calling me nonstop. i got a call from a dude that i thought was a buddy loving with me but it was sincere  Hello, is TheReverend there?  yeah that's me. yeah im from company x. I wanted to tell you about our new pens. but first i'll tell you a joke. you don't get offended by jokes do you? no what do you call a lesbian dinosaur? a lick-a-lot-a-pus! Now TheRev, we can print your company name on 100 aluminum pens for only 39.99. How many would you like?
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Oct 6, 2015 04:52
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an adult beverage posted:Who is buying poo poo from twenty-something goons calling them up at home? old people and goons. remember, every goon fundraiser has been for an unworthy cause, see d00bie et al.
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Oct 6, 2015 04:55
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TheReverend posted:i started a business recently and as such i had to print my name and phone number in the paper, etc. How many did you order?
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Oct 6, 2015 05:19
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Worked customer service at a call center for a horrible satellite TV company. During slow moments I'd look up celebrity names and their issues. Scorcese had much trouble with his DVR but I think it's worked out now. Any such job is : headset on; eyes rolled up.
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Oct 6, 2015 05:23
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The telemarketing company that I worked at shut down and vanished with everyone's paychecks about two weeks after I quit. lol those guys were running the same scam over and over again, they set up a fly-by-night company, gave local businesses free leads until they sign a contract and then vanish with the money. And by "vanish" I mean relocate upstate one weekend.
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Oct 6, 2015 06:45
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I think someone that had my old home phone number was really bad with their bills, because I get 5-10 calls a week always asking for the same group of similar but not the same female names. Like, Stephanie Bellows, then Stephanie Burrows, then Stephanie Barons. Then there's this one who always calls, lets it ring twice, then hang up. I always call back and the sassy lady on the line always says "your number's in our database but we haven't called you in 8 months" then hangs up. I know it's not telemarketing, but it's in the same vein and it's very annoying.
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Oct 6, 2015 07:01
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i worked with a guy who previously had a job in a call center that lost it's contract or something, so it was just a building full of people sitting at empty cubicles, doing nothing. managers were basically chosen by lottery, given a $5/hr raise, and told to roam the aisles and write up anyone who looked at their cell phone.
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Oct 6, 2015 07:58
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Anime is great! posted:I gotta get a dancing avatar
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Oct 6, 2015 08:02
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Not much hate for over the phone surveying here. The people who write those things and then expect it to be read should burn in hell . Double points for unnecessary bureaucratese that old people will struggle to understand despite being the main group of people who answer the drat things.
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Oct 6, 2015 08:26
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i used to write software for call centers so when your lovely software messed up and you got blamed, that was actually my bad
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Oct 6, 2015 09:53
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when I was a teenager I once helped spread salmon carcasses from a salmon hatchery around a riverbank (salmon carcasses are part of the natural nutrient cycle here). They had been sitting out in the back of a truck for a week or so in the sun and were pretty ripe. We took billhooks and would spear them, then chuck them overhand onto the banks. More than a few would just disintegrate at that point and cover you in rotten guts. Anyway I'd rather do that for my whole life than go back to working for a cell phone company's customer service.
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Oct 6, 2015 10:34
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LOVE LOVE SKELETON posted:i worked with a guy who previously had a job in a call center that lost it's contract or something, so it was just a building full of people sitting at empty cubicles, doing nothing. managers were basically chosen by lottery, given a $5/hr raise, and told to roam the aisles and write up anyone who looked at their cell phone. getting paid to show up and play pretend prison sounds cool, I hope the managers looked the other way so people could shank the retards that explode their lunch in the microwave
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Oct 6, 2015 10:39
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I did it as a summer job and it was great. No one worked before 10am. So if showed up at 7:30am I can clock in and go home all day. I'd work from like 4-7pm. My bosses were drug addicts that would go on "smoke breaks." I'd win more money playing them in poker when they got back. We played a lot of frisbee too for some reason.
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Oct 6, 2015 10:39
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degutting fish seems like a pretty routine job. You get a knife, it goes in the fish, the guts come out, move onto the next fish. As opposed to dealing with assholes all day over the phone I think that's a better job for sure. I mean plus you get a big knife and if someone is an rear end in a top hat, you got a big knife. Poor customer service phone people I can only imagine. I generally try to be nice to them when I call up tho. Cause I know whatever is wrong isn't this person's direct fault. I have female friends who worked call centers and tell me they get guys who call up and masturbate to them on the phone. That shits weird. But I might try it next time a telemarketer calls me. Cause gently caress telemarketers.
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Oct 6, 2015 10:42
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Al Borland posted:degutting fish seems like a pretty routine job. many years ago i applied for a call center job selling some bullshit. who cares apparently only the women made any sales. i wonder hwy
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Oct 6, 2015 10:46
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i would rather live under a bridge than work in a call center
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Oct 6, 2015 10:47
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an adult beverage posted:How is telemarketing even a valid business model? Who is buying poo poo from twenty-something goons calling them up at home? How the hell is door-to-door sales a valid business model? Who the gently caress buys something from some stranger who has the balls to show up at their goddamn house? I just had some Terminex salesman try to sell me a termite-killing package. Even if I just so happened to at that moment have home-destroying ants, I'm not giving money to a loving guy at the door of my home. Telemarketers infuriate me beyond belief and it has gotten so bad I never answer my house phone, and cell phones I can block numbers fortunately But door to door salespeople? Holy poo poo they are a special kind of trash. I have a napping infant in my house that some retard ringing my bell 4 times and knocking loudly just woke up. And opening the door and telling them they're scum doesn't work because a) this jerkoff knows where you live and b) some other dickweed is going to be bothering you the next day anyway. I swear to Christ you can't even get tranquility in your own loving home without some shitbag trying to force a product in your face. In the one goddamn place you should be able to. Basically what I am saying is full communism now jenny jones fan fucked around with this message at 11:47 on Oct 6, 2015 |
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Oct 6, 2015 11:33
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Melmac posted:I swear to Christ you can't even get tranquility in your own loving home without some shitbag trying to force a product in your face. In the one goddamn place you should be able to. People still do this? Like I thought mostly it was crackheads trying to sell magazines. Aka figure out if you're home so they can rob you.
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Melmac posted:
the guy rings but he takes something from the house instead
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