Call centre work is excellent
- Spinning in your chair making people around you piss themselves laughing whilst talking seriously, dealing with a complaint

- Putting people into the longest queue in the company (whether or not they need to be there) because they've just given you verbal abuse

- Pretending to be each others' supervisors. Perfectly fine if you don't say 'I'm x's supervisor'.

- Locking each others screens whilst they're in a call

- Fag breaks off the clock when you're doing outbound calls

- Playing Tetris online whilst giving people professional advice; you mention this stuff 100 times a day, it's all in the head now

- Trying not to laugh when somebody has just called you whilst you're in the middle of talking about the filth you did last night

- Having the manager call that awkward customer a tosser when they release the call

- Laughing at funny names

God help me when I get a real job.
( Methylene Blue - electrohead, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 23:11, 3 replies)

or how bout...
seeing how many joints you can smoke on your lunch break and still read the script. ah, memories (foggy though they may be)...
(tuqueboy has been in a medically -induced coma since, Mon 12 Jan 2009, 23:53, closed)

I can sympathise
Although my last call-centre manager was a spineless cretin. Not in my current company mind, I'm quite happy here. But, we're still as relaxed as ever. I reckon you'll do fine.
( jim_bob can herd cats., Tue 13 Jan 2009, 8:41, closed)

:-)
You make call centres sound fun again.. I'm tempted to go back..
(Beer Elf Thought this was like a campfire, anyhow, on, Tue 13 Jan 2009, 11:30, closed)