Reply #13: Its not just programming [View All]

[thefool_wa]

I have identical complaints (minus the missed work and with less of a chance of getting fired Monday - but there is ALWAYS a chance) about my job in a Call Center and I don't even take calls.

I am always either slammed or pulling my hair out, constantly looking over my shoulder wondering when someone is going to take offense at the color of my hair, the way I'm sitting in my chair, or nothing at all really.

Corporate america may not be the kind of slavery this country used to have, but paying one barely enough to get by on, keeping them in constant fear of loosing their job with or without reason, and not offering any kind of opportunity because they KNOW there is nothing better in my area for me (and the vast majority of my co-workers on the support staff) certainly does FEEL like slavery.

I wish we could make it all go away.