Originally Posted by phogirl69

I had two horrible jobs. First was telelemarketing. There is nothing more humiliating than calling strangers up and having to sell something. Plus they have quotas to meet and if you don't meet them you get fired.

Second was as a customer service rep over the phone. I really HATE talking to people, any job that consists of dealing with the general public is STRESSFUL. Plus as with all jobs, they have strict quotas of how much work you have to process (calls), and how accurate your work is, and if you do anything wrong at all you get written up. Same shit everyday 8 hours a day, at times I felt like I could't breathe and wondered what the point of life was since most of it consisted of going to work.

Plus customer service was rough for me because sometimes people would get REALLY irate, and I got yelled at a lot and sometimes people would just give me a hard time and keep me on the phone for a LONG time and screw up my productivity and quotas . You aren't supposed to take it pesonally, and it's lame but there were numerous times where I actually went to my car during break and I would used to CRY because someone gave me too much of a hard time and I felt like I couldn't take it anymore. And other times I would go to the bathroom and cry, it was a horrible job!! You get yelled and cussed out all the time, and some people are like attorneys, they ask you thousands of very hard to answer questions and it's just very stressful. Other people just talk to you condescendingly or they are in a bad mood and just take it out on you.

Another horrible job was with the same co but in a different department. I felt as if my boss didn't like me and I would get written up by QC all the time for clerical work. It wasn't that I was necessarily wrong, it was stuff that wasn't black or white but could be interpreted differently, and i felt as if I couldn't argue for my actions because my boss wasn't on my side.

Working 9-5 mostly sucks and I used to pray and pray that I could get out of the cycle, which I finally did.