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Customer services I'm quite simply toooooooooo impatient to be honest.
Exactly this.
Plus almost all of the time, you do not get paid enough to Justify dealing with some of the miserable S-O-B's you encounter and putting up with their abuse.
Plus almost all of the time, you do not get paid enough to Justify dealing with some of the miserable S-O-B's you encounter and putting up with their abuse.
Also want to add " customer " care anything to that list, I absolutely REFUSE to deal with " customers. " Most of them are whiny, over indulged cry babies and I just do not have the patience for grown adults throwing hissy fits, I was at a K-Mart the other day buying something for my daughter, and there was this lady on the verge of having a mental breakdown because something was not marked down for her, she was frothing at the mouth and just being an overall ****, and the poor cashier was just taking it and you could tell she was on the verge of tears, I would have reached over that counter and rang her up!
My Grandfather was right, the older you get, the more your tolerance for BS goes away.
My wife used to work retail. Thank god she went back to school and as soon as our youngest starts school, she's going back to work. But the last retail job she had, she literally threw up her hands and said F*** this and walked out. A customer was throwing a temper tantrum because she wanted her money back instead of store credit and then started belittling my wife right there on the floor in front of other customers. My wife had just had enough and I dont blame her...thankfully, fortunately it wasn't a job she really needed at that time so it was easy to just leave. I truly feel for the folk out there who have to deal with a-holes on a day to day basis.
I see a trend here....lots and lots are saying customer service is on the "no way" list of jobs. Is this because you worked with customers before, or have learned, over time, that being the customer is enough for you to realize and know that you wouldn't want to be on the other side of the counter/table?
As a plumber/fitter I've done most of the jobs listed in this thread most people would never do, obviously gross situations, extreme heights, danger situations, and dealing with customers has never bothered me but I have to say never, ever, again, would I wash dishes. I'd rather shovel crap, clean porta potties, do autopsies, etc, just no dishwashing.
I washed dishes for 3 years as a 2nd job and nothing even comes close to that nightmare, when I worked in refineries and had to have a scuba tank and mask on my face because breathing the air would kill me, that was a pleasure compared to watching dishes, I was in a basket lifted by a crane 157ft in the air while the crane broke down in 25mph winds, so I was stuck 157ft up for 3.5 hours and the guy I was with in the basket was freaking out, not me though, cause I wasn't washing dishes....
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Castrating farm animals.
Construction work at a mosque, especially at the former World Trade Center.
Executioner, especially beheading people in Saudi Arabia.
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Originally Posted by War Beagle
Social worker. I don't think you are supposed to tell your clients that their lives suck primarily because of their poor decisions.
That would suck for you, but not for the reason you think. It would upset you because you'd see that the recipients hadn't gotten there because of any obvious poor decision, but more by lack of foresight (which many people, especially borderline retarded, simply don't have) and many times because of physical or mental disability that was NOT their fault.
You would find out that they don't get some extravagant amount of benefits as conservatives tell you on Fox News. They're not living the high life, but are miserable in their poverty.
This would cause pain from cognitive dissonance. It would suck for you.
Construction work at a mosque, especially at the former World Trade Center.
Executioner, especially beheading people in Saudi Arabia.
That would suck for you, but not for the reason you think. It would upset you because you'd see that the recipients hadn't gotten there because of any obvious poor decision, but more by lack of foresight (which many people, especially borderline retarded, simply don't have) and many times because of physical or mental disability that was NOT their fault.
You would find out that they don't get some extravagant amount of benefits as conservatives tell you on Fox News. They're not living the high life, but are miserable in their poverty.
This would cause pain from cognitive dissonance. It would suck for you.
Amazing post, I wish I could rep you more than once.
There are some segments of the population that are CONVINCED that folks on any kind of benefit are Limousine riding jet setters living a life of leisure, and that hud-housing and disability assistance are comparable to the Ritz Carlton and a lottery lump sum payment, respectively.
The sad reality is, most people on assistance are living a hellish existence, and the ones who take " advantage " of the system hurt the tens of thousands of others who desperately need the assistance.
A couple of you said you would not want to be a butcher. I agree. Neither would I. I would hate it. I would also hate to do autopsies, too. But injection molding sounds much more pleasant though I have never do such work before. I would rather wash dishes than to deal with angry and impatient customers.
I see a trend here....lots and lots are saying customer service is on the "no way" list of jobs. Is this because you worked with customers before, or have learned, over time, that being the customer is enough for you to realize and know that you wouldn't want to be on the other side of the counter/table?
Its not only both of those, but also the simple fact that most customer care jobs pay peanuts, hell, they pay less than peanuts, and you are required to put up with nonsense that most adults realistically should not have too.
Personal example:
I worked a call center for a cable company when I was younger, and it was the absolute worst job Ive ever had, thankfully im thick skinned, but there were people in that center under the kind of stress that knocks years off your lifespan, imagine sitting there, handcuffed by policies that you can not change, and being yelled at/berated/insulted by miserable hags and whiny man-children over something as stupid as " My TV guide isnt updating fast enough. " Or other things that you personally have no control over.
I had to quit because I could not deal with such trivial nonsense, these people are a representation of what the modern consumer-media has turned folks into, mindless TV and Internet addicted morons who actually CRY when their cable goes out, or who would have coronary-events regarding TV channels pixelating, I can not do a job I do not take serious, its unfair to the company, and to myself.
No amount of money is going to make me care about some over-indulged irrational whiner crying about silly, non issues.
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