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mllaneza posted:And there's always tape if you don't. My workplace was on the Top 100 Places to Work in IT for like the 5th year running last year. Marketing had a bunch of swag printed up to hand out to everyone - mousepads, drink coasters, water bottles - and webcam covers. I think every laptop in the call center was sporting one of those covers by the end of the week. Then Covid and WFH happened, and Teams meetings became the norm. To my surprise, none of the meetings I have been involved in have required us to turn on our cameras, and in most cases, even the presenter has only shared their desktop, and not had their camera on.
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Our call center used to be all at the office and now it’s all work from home. The call center manager requires they all have cameras on from 8-4 every day.
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GreenNight posted:Our call center used to be all at the office and now it’s all work from home. The call center manager requires they all have cameras on from 8-4 every day. Whats morale?
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GreenNight posted:Our call center used to be all at the office and now it’s all work from home. The call center manager requires they all have cameras on from 8-4 every day. So long as he doesn't see the woman picking up her handbag in the background, they'll be golden.
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Sep 17, 2020 15:31
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RFC2324 posted:Whats morale? Nothing, what's morale with you? 
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RFC2324 posted:Whats morale?
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Arquinsiel posted:Like call centres care about that... Had in interview where my anxiety issues around phones came up, and one of the interviewers just nodded and commented that it was common call center PTSD. Call centers are pure evil
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RFC2324 posted:Had in interview where my anxiety issues around phones came up, and one of the interviewers just nodded and commented that it was common call center PTSD. 
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Arquinsiel posted:I now have "unexpected communication with boss" PTSD instead though  I have a (reasonably) good boss now, I still get that "oh poo poo" feeling every time he asks for a quick chat.
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Wibla posted:
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I don't thing fear of a quick chat is linked to a bad boss. I had a series of good to amazing bosses early in my career and I never stopped breaking out in a cold sweat
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RFC2324 posted:Had in interview where my anxiety issues around phones came up, and one of the interviewers just nodded and commented that it was common call center PTSD. It took me many years to get rid of feeling intense discomfort and anxiety whenever the phone rang.
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Collateral Damage posted:Not call center per se, but my first job in the 90s was as support/admin for a rickety web host. poo poo would constantly break and angry customers would call and scream at us. I've been diagnosed with complex PTSD in part because of my years doing front line support. poo poo really is that bad
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RFC2324 posted:I don't thing fear of a quick chat is linked to a bad boss. I had a series of good to amazing bosses early in my career and I never stopped breaking out in a cold sweat See also: getting a text from your mom that just says "please call me" with 0 other details. Has she been hit by the bus or does she want to chat about some funny photo she saw online that made her think of you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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RFC2324 posted:I don't thing fear of a quick chat is linked to a bad boss. I had a series of good to amazing bosses early in my career and I never stopped breaking out in a cold sweat My boss and I have a fantastic relationship - he hired me 5 years ago 2 employers ago and was basically the best manager i've ever had. I hired him to be my manager at my current employer, we're RL friends and get along amazingly. A request for a quick chat is fine since we basically never disagree on anything - it's always one of us going "help me unfuck something" Despite all this I got a request for a 1:1 out of the blue after a round of layoffs and started freaking out thinking that it was my turn. Nope, just wanted to check in with me.
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Fear of authority is p lovely, shame its so engrained in us
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RFC2324 posted:I don't thing fear of a quick chat is linked to a bad boss. I had a series of good to amazing bosses early in my career and I never stopped breaking out in a cold sweat
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Sirotan posted:See also: getting a text from your mom that just says "please call me" with 0 other details. Has she been hit by the bus or does she want to chat about some funny photo she saw online that made her think of you? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Yup, in these crazy COVID times there is plenty of cause for anxiety in almost any situation.
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RFC2324 posted:I've been diagnosed with complex PTSD in part because of my years doing front line support. poo poo really is that bad Phone tech support for 4 years at the start of my career has resulted in me having panic attacks when I need to answer a phone. If I don't know I have a call scheduled, I just don't answer. Placing phonecalls is something I have to force myself to do.
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chin up everything sucks posted:Phone tech support for 4 years at the start of my career has resulted in me having panic attacks when I need to answer a phone. If I don't know I have a call scheduled, I just don't answer. Placing phonecalls is something I have to force myself to do. If I can't let the call go to voicemail because I panicked, it's going to be a problem. As long as a callback is an acceptable option, its cool.
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RFC2324 posted:Fear of authority is p lovely, shame its so engrained in us IMO it's not a fear of authority, it's that we abstract various parts of our lives into constants so they can be put aside to focus on other things, and the precipitous possibility that it might be disturbed forces you to readdress your employment as a fluid and fragile thing whilst also trying to produce a survival strategy, all in about five seconds. It's like if you're stood on the same cliff that's been your home for years, staring out across the plains thinking about tomorrow's hunt, and suddenly the ground shifts below you.
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CollegeCop posted:My workplace was on the Top 100 Places to Work in IT for like the 5th year running last year. 12 years, currently in single digits  RFC2324 posted:I don't thing fear of a quick chat is linked to a bad boss. I had a series of good to amazing bosses early in my career and I never stopped breaking out in a cold sweat Mine is definitely from a bad boss. Four years working for someone who thinks "good cop/bad cop" is a management strategy and two years on, I'm still twitchy as hell when my current, awesome, boss wants a quick chat. For the first year "come on in and close the door" would cause an adrenaline spike.
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Schadenboner posted:Nothing, what's morale with you? When the boss needs your cam, Cause he thinks you're a scam, that's a-morale
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Super Soaker Party! posted:When the boss needs your cam, 
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Well that doesn't fit the meter AT ALL. 
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All unknown calls go to voicemail immediately, and most known calls also go to voicemail. If a business doesn't have an online or email ordering system, I will probably shop elsewhere. There's a moment in a Jhonen Vasquez comic where one character finally coaxes her agoraphobic friend outside by saying, "I found a Chinese restaurant! There's no people. It's just robots and conveyor belts. I know you love that poo poo." And I'm like, "drat, that's me." Call center PTSD is real.
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Super Soaker Party! posted:Well that doesn't fit the meter AT ALL. This is also why we don't use them in  !
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:All unknown calls go to voicemail immediately, and most known calls also go to voicemail. If a business doesn't have an online or email ordering system, I will probably shop elsewhere. I have fond memories of a local place called Sushi Train. You went in. You sat down anywhere you wanted. A waiter got your drink order. Sushi went around the restaurant on little, labeled colored plates riding on a model train. Plates were color-coded and had a fixed price (like blue plates were $3/each and black were $5, or whatever). When you were done, you paid. Grand total of two interactions. More if you wanted a drink refill. It was great.
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ConfusedUs posted:I have fond memories of a local place called Sushi Train. This was called "Yo! Sushi" here.
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ConfusedUs posted:I have fond memories of a local place called Sushi Train. those places are getting more and more popular I think. I know people were super excited when one opened in DFW a few years back E: I just checked and we have an actual Sushi Train. I may have to try it. Otoh self serve in Covid times seems dangerous
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:All unknown calls go to voicemail immediately, and most known calls also go to voicemail. If a business doesn't have an online or email ordering system, I will probably shop elsewhere. I remember eating at a restaurant in Japan and they had booths with a 3 section panel door. When you got in, the panels were in the center so you could slide into the booth, and then during the meal, they'd open the center door to deliver the food. There was a little button you could press if you needed service, but otherwise it was a quiet little room with no interruptions.
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Dr. Arbitrary posted:I remember eating at a restaurant in Japan and they had booths with a 3 section panel door. When you got in, the panels were in the center so you could slide into the booth, and then during the meal, they'd open the center door to deliver the food. There's a ramen chain in NYC, originally from Japan I think, that's like this. You're in a little carrel, wood wall in front of you with a chest high door and wood dividers on either side. You write your order on a slip of paper and hit a button. The door opens and a hand reaches in and takes your order. A few minutes later the door opens again and a bowl of ramen comes forth. Was fun, but two-three bucks more per bowl than most places, and the black garlic oil at Hide-Chan was just better.
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ConfusedUs posted:I have fond memories of a local place called Sushi Train. There is a great kaitenzushi ("conveyor belt sushi") restaurant in Kyoto station that I really miss going to, it had all of the above but also little spigots of hot water in between every other seat and a container with green tea bags next to the soy sauce. You'd only have to interact with a person as you were leaving to pay, and the sushi was delicious and dirt cheap. Sushi no Musashi, on the lovely side of the station across from the McDonalds, on the off chance anyone reading this is ever there.
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RFC2324 posted:Otoh self serve in Covid times seems dangerous Yeah. It'll probably be next year before I do an actual sit-in restaurant again, and maybe longer for self-serve. I'm paranoid as gently caress about Covid.
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JohnCompany posted:There's a ramen chain in NYC, originally from Japan I think, that's like this. You're in a little carrel, wood wall in front of you with a chest high door and wood dividers on either side. You write your order on a slip of paper and hit a button. The door opens and a hand reaches in and takes your order. A few minutes later the door opens again and a bowl of ramen comes forth. Was fun, but two-three bucks more per bowl than most places, and the black garlic oil at Hide-Chan was just better. its sad that my first thought was "wonder how over the hand grabs a dick" ConfusedUs posted:Yeah. It'll probably be next year before I do an actual sit-in restaurant again, and maybe longer for self-serve. I'm paranoid as gently caress about Covid. won't be that long for me. between anxiety from being alone too long and a general feeling that all we could hope for is flattening the curve, I figure I'm going to get it eventually and I am just postponing it as long as possible
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ConfusedUs posted:I have fond memories of a local place called Sushi Train. I'm pretty sure that is the name of a category on Pornhub.
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My favorite conveyor belt sushi place is in downtown Portland, near most of the good music venues, and their conveyor belt is an actual model train. They swap out the engines sometimes, and they all have replica liveries. I'm not a railfan, but a friend of mine is, so I send her photos when I go there. (Used to, anyway.) The good news is that a friend of mine drove by, and despite being in the midst of the protest war zone, their train is still chugging along 
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:My favorite conveyor belt sushi place is in downtown Portland, near most of the good music venues, and their conveyor belt is an actual model train. They swap out the engines sometimes, and they all have replica liveries. I'm not a railfan, but a friend of mine is, so I send her photos when I go there. (Used to, anyway.) The whole...what, like two blocks of it?
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Super Soaker Party! posted:When the boss needs your cam, lmao
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Dirt Road Junglist posted:There's a moment in a Jhonen Vasquez comic where one character finally coaxes her agoraphobic friend outside by saying, "I found a Chinese restaurant! There's no people. It's just robots and conveyor belts. I know you love that poo poo." And I'm like, "drat, that's me." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6e2iINIPTlo I'm the same, pretty much. I also hate that my order notes always say "text - i cannot receive calls" and they will still call.
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