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If you can find it! Like I said in my earlier post, a call center job is the type of job one goes after if there are no other jobs out there. You make it sound easy when you say manual labor, but in some parts of the country, especially right now, it is hard to get even manual labor jobs. Seriously!
Yes, it's hard getting manual labor jobs because there's too many experienced laborers applying. There's nearly no hope for inexperienced people to get those jobs. Same thing for factory/warehouse positions.
After I left the call center, I found it VERY difficult to find any other job. I'm currently working part-time and hopefully will be able to start college.
Hey Michelle, I just started a call job been there 2 weeks and from day one I havent felt at ease. Have a post on here as well. Should I stick it out like you did or jump ship? My old job is offering my job back.
Call centers like to keep churning their employee pool. Some stay long-term, but IMO they deliberately nit-pick and find reasons to fire before one becomes eligible for benefits, such as health insurance, etc. Call centers typically don't pay well, but they attract employees by offering benefits, then they ********* out of them. Oh, and typically they get rid of you before you qualify for unemployment. Why don't they just say they want temporary, part-time workers?
That's quite an assumption. One job lasted 2 years and the other lasted 6 years...which is what I left to try to pursue a position with more opportunities. I've been planning to quit for a while until I received my internship which is next week but since my job coach decided to bring this upon me I figured I might as well quit like I wanted to. It had been on my mind for a while after I decided to just give it a chance. But like I said even though I didn't really like the job, I still put a lot of effort into my customers.
My guess is that supervisor didn't like you and was just looking for a way to make you quit.
My first job was cold calling for Gold's Gym, lousy job. I still remember them having all the blacks blocked out of our call list. We were not helping people, we were to sell them on our service and had a pat answer to any objection they may have. I don't like pushing people into something they don't want.
You sound like a nice, responsible person - you'll find something better. Don't look back.
Hey Michelle, I just started a call job been there 2 weeks and from day one I havent felt at ease. Have a post on here as well. Should I stick it out like you did or jump ship? My old job is offering my job back.
Thank you for the reply. Everything that Michelle said in the OP is true I've seen it in just two weeks. Favoritism is blatant, micromanaging in rampant. I wish I knew what it was like beforehand. My old job was a great place but paid little which is why I took this job for more pay and more hours. Maybe sometimes there are more important things than money like your sanity.
Thank you for the reply. Everything that Michelle said in the OP is true I've seen it in just two weeks. Favoritism is blatant, micromanaging in rampant. I wish I knew what it was like beforehand. My old job was a great place but paid little which is why I took this job for more pay and more hours. Maybe sometimes there are more important things than money like your sanity.
Oh my gosh, a job that you like is five hundred percent better than what most people have. Money isn't worth it, it's really not. Perhaps if you stay with it, you can move up or somebody will spot you and offer you something better. Just be grateful for a job that you don't dread going to.
It's rough out there, very competitive and people are going to be mean to you because that's the kind of people they are - don't let it get you down. The job where I thought I had finally arrived at my destination, turned out to be the worst job I ever had. Pay was great, but the people and atmosphere was awful. I lasted a couple months and quit. I think it looks better on your resume if you say you quit, with an explanation - rather than have to say you were fired. Be careful with the explanation, don't bad mouth anyone or any company. Just say it wasn't a good fit or you saw no growth potential.
Good luck to all you young people - you have more challanges than any generation in the past.
It's a very effective tactic used by Call Center Upper Management. Simply put, the longer you stay, the more pressure there is to give you a raise. So they make the standards ridiculous so that you'll leave within a year or two and they in turn can hire fresh (innocent) meat that's willing to take the abuse at 10/hr.
I did IT Call Center for several years, they looked at me like I'd sprouted a second head when I asked for an annual review and raise! So glad I got out of there.
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