No sales job ever paid per time spent on phone
Anon is trying to be wholesome but has to forge reality in this fucked up world
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Very interesting keep going
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I used to do some operator work for a major UK telecoms firm.
Because it was free, you had all sorts of people phoning it. A good chunk of them were just old folk who were lonely and just wanted someone to speak to.
It was nice. Some of us had additional roles too and we were generally left alone if there was nothing else to do, so it was nice talking about people's families and interests, and hearing their voices brighten over the course of five or ten minutes.
Growing old alone must suck.
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If there's no pressure to go onto the next call that's actually not a bad gig! I've never worked at a call center like that, though. Call centers are really hard places to work that pay terrible.
I did tech support back in 2000 for dial-up and DSL. We were outsourced (though still in the US) for a major telco. We would get punished if we took too long on any call. It was always painful when clearly lonely old folks would want to keep talking.
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Yeah at least 75% of sales, advertising, and marketing is a barely measurable metric that exists to look useful while burning money. Like those advertising mailers? They're just employing people to do nothing but kill trees to prop up the postal service. Big brand ads? They just want to remind you that Coca-Cola exists in case you forgot since the last time they told you 10 minutes ago.
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Surprisingly wholesome.
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Reminds me of a story where apparently phone-sex workers had to be trained to give emotional support and suicide prevention stuff because most of their customers were just that broken
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This is as cute as it is sad.
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