A few job purrs too please?

Singh wrote:
It isn't even that I so dislike phone work. It's that, in a typical call
center environment, they come in so fast that something in my head literally
shorts out. It's like I need a surge protector for the brain. It is a part of
my learning disability, which the doctor who tested me refers to as
perceptual memory dysfunction. Too much at once, I get scrambled up and have
even gone into something resembling petit-mal seizure.

Purrs that you find a job that doesn't trigger this! You're certainly
fascinatingly complicated, and I hope that you'll find work that
meshes well with that.

It isn't even that I so dislike phone work. It's that, in a typical call
center environment, they come in so fast that something in my head literally
shorts out. It's like I need a surge protector for the brain. It is a part of
my learning disability, which the doctor who tested me refers to as
perceptual memory dysfunction. Too much at once, I get scrambled up and have
even gone into something resembling petit-mal seizure. That once happened in
what they call training bay, a facsimile phone bank where you take calls
under close, strict supervision. I'm told I blanked out with my hands
hovering over the keyboard as if ready to enter something. I'm now on
anticonvulsants, but it can still come up a time or two. I need to be the one
initiating the calls so that information does not fly into my face and I can
prioritize and control what I am doing. It helps me operate better. I think I
can handle a skip-tracing job if it's under the right conditions for me. But
how to bring that up...? "Yes I'm interested and need work last week, but it
has to be on my terms alone so let me tell you how to run your office?" Not
kosher!

Blessed be,
Baha

Takayuki wrote:

Singh wrote:
I have an interview Friday with some collections outfit not too far from
me. An agency set it up. The rep made a big point of telling me it's not
as a collector..."It's more, um, like skip-tracing." It's the LIKE that
makes me scratch my head. The UM doesn't sound too pretty either. Or am
I just getting paranoid with cabin fever?

Purrs for sucessful interviews. And better interviews. I'm a little
wary of this work. I don't have anything against skip tracing in
general - if you can trace someone who owes child support, or a
judgment in a wrongful death case or something like that, you're a
hero! And looking for people who just happen to be in debt is
perfectly legitimate too.

But you don't like phone work, and I would think that skip tracing
would involve having to call some leads like former employers,
relatives, etc., and not just looking up records.

Takayuki wrote:

But you don't like phone work, and I would think that skip tracing
would involve having to call some leads like former employers,
relatives, etc., and not just looking up records.

I got the feeling it was more about being the recipient of one call
after another, from people asking all kinds of questions, rather than
phone phobia per se. I would hate hate hate working in a call center.
I'm sure I wouldn't last very long in one, either, as I am far too
short-tempered under that type of stress.

When I was young I had a number of service-sector jobs - fast food
joint, clerk in discount department store, etc. I found out fast
that I have almost no patience for people's indecision, questions,
complaints and demands. It's not like people aren't entitled to ask
questions or have needs, it's just that I don't have a personality
suited to dealing with it. So I vowed that I would never again work
in a job that required I work with the public. I'm much better when
they stick me in an office and leave me alone.

Joyce

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When I was young I had a number of service-sector jobs - fast food
joint, clerk in discount department store, etc. I found out fast
that I have almost no patience for people's indecision, questions,
complaints and demands. It's not like people aren't entitled to ask
questions or have needs, it's just that I don't have a personality
suited to dealing with it. //////

I spent last summer working as a coffee barista in Starbucks as I needed
the job (any job) and the money. My word was *THAT* a wake up call.
Quite apart from the Jehovahs Witness like cult culture (All bow at the
altar that is starbucks) and the brainwashed employess (and those of us
who refused to sucumb to the brainwashing of the marvel that is
starbucks were ostracised by the others) the rudeness of customers was
quite mindshattering. I get frustrated if the service is slow or poor,
but these days I am very, very rarely rude to service industry staff and
always try to be polite even when I am seething with anger. I also
refuse point blank to buy Starbucks coffee unless I have absolutely no
choice in the matter. I have become quite the coniseur of small
independent coffee shops around Cardiff. ;o)

Helen M


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"Singh" wrote in message



Please spare me a few, for this one and the interviews I had... and that
the next guy who calls is NOT one of those schmucks trying to get me to
pimp insurance for him!

Blessed be,
Baha

Many good luck purrs.

Helen M



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Singh wrote:
I have an interview Friday with some collections outfit not too far from
me. An agency set it up. The rep made a big point of telling me it's not
as a collector..."It's more, um, like skip-tracing." It's the LIKE that
makes me scratch my head. The UM doesn't sound too pretty either. Or am
I just getting paranoid with cabin fever?

Please spare me a few, for this one and the interviews I had... and that
the next guy who calls is NOT one of those schmucks trying to get me to
pimp insurance for him!


Purring like crazy for you!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Helen Miles wrote:

Quite apart from the Jehovahs Witness like cult culture (All bow at the
altar that is starbucks) and the brainwashed employess (and those of us
who refused to sucumb to the brainwashing of the marvel that is
starbucks were ostracised by the others)

Ewww, I didn't know it was like that to work there!

I also
refuse point blank to buy Starbucks coffee unless I have absolutely no
choice in the matter. I have become quite the coniseur of small
independent coffee shops around Cardiff. ;o)

Glad to know you have them!

Joyce

Helen Miles wrote:
..
Quite apart from the Jehovahs Witness like cult culture (All bow at the
altar that is starbucks) and the brainwashed employess (and those of us
who refused to sucumb to the brainwashing of the marvel that is
starbucks were ostracised by the others)

Sounds a bit like MacDonald's. My neice worked for them when she was at
college and she told me that if you even slightly criticised the
company other workers would berate you. She did say sometimes it was
slightly creepy and almost cult like

This may explain the young couple who recently won the lottery and plan
to keep working at the Golden Arches because they love it so much, (I
was more scandalised to find that she was an area manager on £16K-
that is a pittance for any position but an area manager ? That's
usually the Golden job in retail)

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Lesley wrote:

Quite apart from the Jehovahs Witness like cult culture (All bow at the
altar that is starbucks) and the brainwashed employess (and those of us
who refused to sucumb to the brainwashing of the marvel that is
starbucks were ostracised by the others)

Sounds a bit like MacDonald's. My neice worked for them when she was at
college and she told me that if you even slightly criticised the
company other workers would berate you. She did say sometimes it was
slightly creepy and almost cult like

From what I've read, Mall-Wart is a lot like this, too.

Joyce

Cheryl Perkins wrote:

I am most definitely not suited to a position involving only customer
service, and I still try to be as polite as possible to any clerk serving
me.


I used to work in bookselling and I miss it terribly. I never found
people to be that bad- there's maybe 1% who could put "Annoying
assistants" down as a hobby but even most what appeared to be rude
customers were okay once they got the message that you were there to
help them and happy to do so.

But it's like a friend of mine says, people want things cheap so costs
have to be cut and a lot of people end up in shop jobs who haven't got
the temperament but are prepared to work long hours for bad wages.
Anyone who might be good at it either gets promoted into management
where they don't have customer contact or they soon get tired of
working for peanuts and get jobs in other industries (For example a
friend of mine is an assistant in an off-licence a job where he has to
work long hours, unsocial hours and runs the risk of being robbed,
stabbed or shot on a daily basis and he takes home less than half of
what I do)

A lot of the problem is also the perception of shop work as not for
intelligent people.I used to get annoyed when people said to me "But
you've got A levels. You're too good to work in a shop!" In fact I was
doing a highly skilled and immensly variable job, which I loved doing
and found a lot more challenging than what I'm doing now.

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs