Gibberings CIX: Faulty 'y' key? Or just high?

[parttime crackhead]

I feel the same. I don't want to say NEVER because who know's, desperate times call for desperate measure but if I have a choice I'll never go back to one. Horrible places to work.

Desperate times would call for robbing pensioners before answering phones for me.

My mate works for Tesco Bank (or insurance or some bit of Tesco that isn't a shop). He said they've been hitting them with "Every time you make a sale, you take a car & put it up on the big road on the wall, that way you'll be able to see how your work is driving the business on" haha (he said this in the voice of someone speaking to a 4 year old). He said he basically told them to fuck right off, not a chance was he doing that.

It was like some rocket of a team leader at HSBC trying to get us to do star jumps in the morning, then acting like I could get the sack when I refused. Told her to ram it, I was here to answer phones & be pissed off, not to do fucking star jumps.

At least the tax office kept the primary school shit that you get in most call centres to a minimum.

 

[pinkpapaver]

Celeb haunt curry house found crawling with cockroaches

^^ you ever had the misfortune of eating there Pink? ... sounds delish

no, but i have had food from dixy chicken next door, but a different dixy chicken

 

[badandwicked]

Desperate times would call for robbing pensioners before answering phones for me.

I'd hurl myself out of a closed window within about an hour I reckon.

 

[TheSpade]

tho spade i think they're after call centre staff in vietnam...you could work n travel there?

How would that be any better? A call centre just in Vietnam. I'm not Vietnams biggest fan anyway, it's too busy and noisy pretty much everywhere. People are rude too.

 

[eclipsedesign]

no, but i have had food from dixy chicken next door, but a different dixy chicken

Haha, errr dixies :D

 

[LastClimb]

Desperate times would call for robbing pensioners before answering phones for me.

haha, I worked in one once. It actually wasnt THAT bad. Used to work for PayZone if anyone's heard of it, just answering calls from the retailers. Lot of calls, but meh wasn't too bad for the money.

 

[Marmalade]

no, but i have had food from dixy chicken next door, but a different dixy chicken

you have a 2112 postcount!

for some reason I always notice this with posters. tis such a great album

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also Mugz has disappeared since the wave of 'self-centered' accusations yesterday. I wonder where he is?

 

[TheSpade]

haha, I worked in one once. It actually wasnt THAT bad. Used to work for PayZone if anyone's heard of it, just answering calls from the retailers. Lot of calls, but meh wasn't too bad for the money.

The first call centre I worked for the money was alright and I only worked there like 10hrs a week because I was at uni but the last one where I worked full time paid min wage and was shite. It's such a shitty and mentally exhausting job and then to get £6 per hour for it is a joke.

 

[pinkpapaver]

you have a 2112 postcount!

for some reason I always notice this with posters. tis such a great album

i'll have to post delete post delete all the way till dec21st i think

 

[pinkpapaver]

Desperate times would call for robbing pensioners before answering phones for me.

My mate works for Tesco Bank (or insurance or some bit of Tesco that isn't a shop). He said they've been hitting them with "Every time you make a sale, you take a car & put it up on the big road on the wall, that way you'll be able to see how your work is driving the business on" haha (he said this in the voice of someone speaking to a 4 year old). He said he basically told them to fuck right off, not a chance was he doing that.

It was like some rocket of a team leader at HSBC trying to get us to do star jumps in the morning, then acting like I could get the sack when I refused. Told her to ram it, I was here to answer phones & be pissed off, not to do fucking star jumps.

At least the tax office kept the primary school shit that you get in most call centres to a minimum.

do they treat people like that in call centres? no wonder calls don't get answered...what the excuse at the tax office if they're not putting cars on the wall?

 

[mattnotrik]

The first call centre I worked for the money was alright and I only worked there like 10hrs a week because I was at uni but the last one where I worked full time paid min wage and was shite. It's such a shitty and mentally exhausting job and then to get £6 per hour for it is a joke.

I lasted a few weeks in a call centre, think im too nice I just cant be a sales cunt. Got dropped because of getting 1 sale in about 2 weeks it was fucking horrible anyway just constant, I got a call the other day though from someone trying to get me a claim "so sir I can get .. yo do i know you?" turned out to be my mate who works there, so annoying how all these companys have got my number though, especially my mobile.. im sure the provider must sell it on otherwise how the fuck would they know?

I do fucking slate people who cold call my house phone though, probally get around 6-8 a day now and its just annoying they just talk for 3 minutes without me letting a word in.. Usually I answer now and dont speak for 5 seconds and usually the phone just goes dead

 

[parttime crackhead]

also Mugz has disappeared since the wave of 'self-centered' accusations yesterday. I wonder where he is?

Last I heard he in possession of unknown quantities of mephedrone & phenazepam. I doubt he knows where he is.

do they treat people like that in call centres? no wonder calls don't get answered...what the excuse at the tax office if they're not putting cars on the wall?

The excuse for what? That call centre was more like a large open plan office, just that everyone happened to be on the phone all day. Other call centres are like fucking day-care for spazzies, making you play stupid games or ring a bell when you sell something & get cunts to cheer etc. Some of the dicks buy right into it as well, I just continued to sit at my desk looking raging when any of that shite was going on, which meant I "wasn't a team player" to which I replied "I don't want to be part of a team of 6 year olds, thanks".

Edit - Ahh, do you mean the excuse for it taking 20 minutes to get through? Simple - nowhere near enough staff to handle the volume of calls, major fuck-ups that affect hundreds of thousands of people all at once etc. Sheer fucking incompetence from half the staff & particularly from the people in charge.

Also, people have to call about 5 times to actually get a letter they need sent out. Once you realise that you can tell that person you're sending it, then just sit there for 5 minutes reading the news or something & never send the letter (with no possible way of anyone checking if you did or not) then you tend to very rarely send letters that people ask for lol.

 

[brimz]

Mad init Mugz doesn't post for 24hours n were already thinking the worst 8(

 

[ColtDan]

Mugz has disappeared since the wave of 'self-centered' accusations yesterday. I wonder where he is?

Casino, shagging one of his entities or in the wardrobe with a pizza and doritos

 

[TheSpade]

I lasted a few weeks in a call centre, think im too nice I just cant be a sales cunt. Got dropped because of getting 1 sale in about 2 weeks it was fucking horrible anyway just constant, I got a call the other day though from someone trying to get me a claim "so sir I can get .. yo do i know you?" turned out to be my mate who works there, so annoying how all these companys have got my number though, especially my mobile.. im sure the provider must sell it on otherwise how the fuck would they know?

I do fucking slate people who cold call my house phone though, probally get around 6-8 a day now and its just annoying they just talk for 3 minutes without me letting a word in.. Usually I answer now and dont speak for 5 seconds and usually the phone just goes dead

I've never done a straight up sales job but in the last one you did have to try for some sales and it was part of your weekly 'stats' to get so many leads even if they didn't convert so you could make them up really if you didn't like selling. I got into it near the end and racked up a few hundred quid but when I left they bumped me and I never saw the money.

My mate works for Tesco Bank (or insurance or some bit of Tesco that isn't a shop). He said they've been hitting them with "Every time you make a sale, you take a car & put it up on the big road on the wall, that way you'll be able to see how your work is driving the business on" haha (he said this in the voice of someone speaking to a 4 year old). He said he basically told them to fuck right off, not a chance was he doing that.

It was like some rocket of a team leader at HSBC trying to get us to do star jumps in the morning, then acting like I could get the sack when I refused. Told her to ram it, I was here to answer phones & be pissed off, not to do fucking star jumps.

It's shit like this that pisses me off about call centres. Used to do daft team building meetings and 'incentives' to try and get you motivated but it was always such pish that just made you cringe and want to tell them to fuck off. I once won a bottle of wine and tanned it at lunch time, that was the best incentive there was. Used to be other shit like donuts to eat on a Friday or putting stars on the wall when a customer gave you good feedback or getting together and talking about our feelings one day, who thinks the shit up? It doesn't make working there any less shit and you always get some muppet taking it really seriously.

Also, people have to call about 5 times to actually get a letter they need sent out. Once you realise that you can tell that person you're sending it, then just sit there for 5 minutes reading the news or something & never send the letter (with no possible way of anyone checking if you did or not) then you tend to very rarely send letters that people ask for lol.

Aye was the same in my place. There was so many things no one could really check whether you did or not...so I often didn't bother and just skived about for ages pretending to be doing it. Like customer complaints, yeah of course I'll pass that complaint on to the management / complaint department (there wasn't even one). Sit around for 20 minutes doing nothing.

 

[Arnold]

His village must have called him saying they want him back.

 

[pinkpapaver]

i just can't believe that call centres make people play stupid games when there meant to be at work...i don't think i could do it

 

[Mailmonkey]

It doesn't make working there any less shit and you always get some muppet taking it really seriously.

Urbain?

 

[Marmalade]

Did anyone watch tonight's
Panorama on this:

Fixed-odds betting machines have doubled the number of addicts to half a million

About this programme
Sophie Raworth explores the booming British gambling industry, which recorded a profit of £5.6 billion in 2011. She reports on its darker side, hearing from those whose lives have spiralled out of control and insiders who believe that fast-paced, high-stake gaming machines are contributing to an increase in violence and frustration in the nation's high-street betting shops.

 

[parttime crackhead]

i just can't believe that call centres make people play stupid games when there meant to be at work...i don't think i could do it

Neither could I. I worked for a major international bank, although you could wear whatever the fuck you wanted I assumed it was going to be serious business, not like fucking playschool. I couldn't do it. I was at work, I was pissed off at the fact I was at work, why the fuck would I want to play some shite game that a 10 year old would consider immature? I just straight up refused, they'd threaten me till the point where they knew that I wasn't going to back down & then just leave me alone because they knew that they couldn't sack me because I didn't want to play Hungry Hippos or something rather than just getting on with my job.