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WCDT Strips 3511 to 3515 (26 June to 30 June 2017)
Gyrre:
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Jun 2017, 19:20 ---Compared to working in a call center?
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That depends on which region you're calling. Lots of colorful language and ignorance of the exemptions to the NDNCL combined with "I no speak English" with a fake accent when calling California. It's easier to complete surveys when calling New York City!
EDIT: Not sure how I forgot to mention National Do Not Call List exemptions ignorance.
Penquin47:
--- Quote from: Thrillho on 29 Jun 2017, 06:11 ---
--- Quote from: emsilly on 28 Jun 2017, 16:38 ---Is everyone here a physicist? :-P
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Christ, no. My degree is a wet liberal arts subject and I'm a teacher in my day job.
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I'm a biology major, but I teach high school physics, is that close enough?
(I learned more physics my first year teaching it than I did in my high school and college classes...)
Zog:
--- Quote from: Gyrre on 29 Jun 2017, 23:14 ---
--- Quote from: Method of Madness on 29 Jun 2017, 19:20 ---Compared to working in a call center?
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That depends on which region you're calling. Lots of colorful language combined with "I no speak English" with a fake accent when calling California. It's easier to complete surveys when calling New York City!
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I called people in southern California for about 15 months, then they switched me to calling nationally. I was astonished at how much easier it was.
Thrillho:
Ah, call centre jobs. They are the fucking worst. I've worked in several, and one of them was comfortably the worst job I've ever had in my life.
--- Quote from: sitnspin on 29 Jun 2017, 20:57 ---I used to date an astrophysicist, but that's just vicarious physics.
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My degree is in vicarious physics!
JimC:
--- Quote from: BenRG on 29 Jun 2017, 23:09 --- You haven't been at work if you haven't stopped at least one fight from breaking out or forcibly ejected at least one increasingly antagonistic drunk!
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Hopefully if you're good enough and have a reasonable clientele you can head it off before it gets to that stage. However it may be that the choice is between unreasonable clientele and no clientele.
The physical side was never my task (or ability) but I do recall one time telling someone to sit down, shut up and behave and being conscious of less than the usual level of support from my colleagues. Anyway, the chap did what he was asked, so no problem, then my colleagues said, "err, Jim, you do know he's just come back from 5 years in the French Foreign legion don't you..."
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