I worked briefly for
a very well-known mobile phone mail order company, in a call centre (read 'battery farm'). My job was to con people into crappy mobile contracts, with the aid of sly advertising, and a very cleverly written script on a computer screen. The penny started to drop when I heard the guy next door to me bollocking an elderly woman for 'wasting his time', after she changed her mind about wanting a phone mid-pitch. How DARE she!

The penny dropped further, when 4 of us newbies were called into an office for a pep talk from some fuckwit 'sales guru'. To get us 'under his spell', he asked us our names, and wrote them down of a piece of paper. Then, he looked at them, and while talking to us, very slowly and deliberately screwed up the piece of paper and threw it in the bin - obviously trying to imply 'you lot are nothing to me' or something. I just sat there and laughed, and he got annoyed.

Then, when I was 4 minutes late for work, as punishment, they made me sit infront of a blank computer screen, doing nothing, for an hour.

I finally knew it was over, however, when they told me that if I wanted to go for a piss, I had to put my hand up and ask the supervisor. I was 32 at the time.

Bye, then.

Aaah fuckit. Dial-A-Phone, if you're interested.

edit - Wascally Weasel - Quality! I'm cleaning coffee off my monitor.
(8-Ball, Thu 21 Jul 2005, 11:49, Reply)