I think I am actually going to turn down the first job offer I have had in 12 months

[Digit]

Although they "call" it a customer service position, it is nothing besides outbound sales calls which is actually telemarketing...DUH!
The pay is $10/hr plus commissions on what you sell.
Yes, I really need a job but I just don't think I would last long. I could MAYBE handle four hours of straight calling although I have never had to do that sort of thing for even THAT long.
Some other varied office work to break up the monotony or something!

Even my best friend told me I would get bored, and I know in my heart she is right.
It is pitiful money to be sure, but in these dire times I would take it if I thought I could hack it.

I told the mgr I would think on it and I plan on calling him back tomorrow to tell him my concerns.
If he has any solutions to keep me challenged or involved in other endeavors...then I may change my mind.

Ah well, something better will come along.....I hope.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. My dear Digit...

Go with your gut instincts! If you think it won't be good for you, then don't do it...

And by all means talk to the manager...

Maybe he has something else you could do more happily and more competently...

Good luck!

:hi:

[Digit]

2. Thanks for your kind reply

Oh, I would be very competent at it...up until the time it became so grueling I would rather lie down on a railroad track than make one more call. We are talking one call after the other all freaking day long.
It's funny, I was so thrilled to be "chosen", I was not thinking clearly.
Oh, and it's about 25% of what I used to make.
Then again, I am 58.
Maybe I should try street walker?
I clean up real good. ha

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. It's a tough place to be...

I hear you about being so thrilled to be chosen! It increases your self-esteem...

Keep looking! I think the economy is very slowly starting to improve...

:hug:

[raccoon]

8. I second that.

:hug: Best to you!

[Corey_Baker08]

4. My Mom Works Incredibly Hard at A Factory for $8.25 an Hour, I think You Should Give It A Shot!!!

Believe me thats good pay for an easy job, my mom bust her ass 40 hours a week making Honda Parts for cars worth more than she'll make in a year. A job is a job just look forward to opportunities for advancement at that job.

Good Luck!

[mdmc]

5. that sounds as bad as my job

man,, i do not want to go to work today..

[KG]

6. i'd rather live under a bridge than be a telemarketer.

[crispini]

7. I did telemarketing once.

They fired me in a week because I didn't sell enough. So you might give it a go and it'll be a little extra paycheck and you'll be done in a week or two, think of it that way! :D

[la_chupa]

9. prolly not worth it

My husband got tricked into working as a telemarketer once. He was supposed to be contacting people who had requested additional information on loans. Basically he was told he would be a loan processor. It turned out that by "requested additional information" they meant "had a listed telephone".

It was so bad that he didn't want to go to sleep at night because he knew he was going to have to get up and go to work.

I can't recall how long he lasted. We've both mentally blocked that period in our lives, two months maybe.

but you know a job is a job

[LynzM]

10. Telemarketing was the worst job I've ever had...

And I've done washed dishes, mucked horse stalls, planted tomatoes, thrown hay... I'd do any of those again before I'd get back on the phones. I lasted 6 weeks, and then got myself promoted off the phones (was that or quit!).

[Mojambo]

11. Telemarketing is some of the most soul crushing work out there.

I'd clean toilets before I did telemarketing.

[graywarrior]

12. I took a job like that coz I was desperate

The abuse from people on the other end of the line is not worth the shit money they pay. My co-workers were skin heads, racists, pedophiles and drunks (this was in FL). They listen in on your calls and take points off for not following protocol. Too many points and you get fired. If you don't learn the system, you end up either making or taking most of the calls because other employees disconnect difficult calls so that the eventually cue to your phone.

I lasted 3 months and left due to severe stomach problems brought on by stress.

If you take the job, consider it a joke until you find something better.

[NNadir]

13. I drove a cab once, because I HAD to.

It was in LA during a time when robbers were pouring flammable liquids on cab drivers to rob them, and lighting them whether they gave them money or not.

I finally got another job (and a wholly different life, in fact) but I drove the cab until I was working somewhere else.

My personal feeling is that a job is a job.

We all have to do things we don't like, but when I think of parts of my job that I hate, I reflect on my business trip to India. In India, they don't have many cement trucks because they have millions of people who will mix concrete in a bucket and carry up to treacherous places.

If someone dies because they fall off a girder, they get someone else. It is, of course, not right, but it is reality.

When I was in India, I had become a stupid jet setting executive and part of my job involved drinking all night like an adolescent fool with people who were parasites in order to be "charming."

It sucked, but I was making a lot of money and I rationalized it all by saying I had a wife and kids. For her part, my wife worried that I might die from it all and I said, "I used to drive a cab..." If nothing else - even if I didn't earn a lot of money - I earned perspective by driving a cab. Unlike my colleagues, I could see those people carrying concrete; I could feel them.

Part of the game is, I think, to suck it up and be active and doing something and doing it the best you can. If you fail at it, it's one thing, but if you don't do what you can, but may not want to do, that's another.

[Jkid]

14. Is this was the story you were talking about: robbers lighting up cab drivers?

http://articles.latimes.com/1986-09-26/local/me-9305_1

[Drunken Irishman]

15. I wouldn't do it.

Fuck telemarketing.

[undeterred]

16. I did it for 3 months once

and I was relieved when they cut me. We had to read a script and basically it was a lie. I wasn't a good enough liar to make many sales.

I can say you wouldn't be missing anything.