… Next Monday will start my last week of training at this place – my new employment. After that week we’ll be thrown onto the floor, and out of the safety of ‘training’ and being with each other, us ‘trainees’. Out of the 25 that started this with me, only 15 of us are left. I’m sure that by Monday we’ll see another if not 2 more people gone. *sigh*
I’m hoping to be one of these lucky ones who found something better. I am sending out resumes almost daily. Almost.
Wish me luck.
I don’t want to hate what I do for a living.
I’ve done something similar to this for 8.5 years at Hell Canada. Wearing that stupid headset, sucking up to ‘customers’, feeling nervous all the time … but worst of all, enduring that hell that is The Call Centre environment.
~ feeling locked in
~ eating lunch when I’m told that I have to as opposed to when I’m hungry, ’cause we need to ‘meet the needs of the business’
~ being 1 minute late and having that docked from my pay
~ looking around and realizing that I’m a minority. I realize that I live in Canada, the country of multiculturalism, but I hate that I’m hearing languages that I don’t understand.
~ knowing that advancing here will be hard. There are another 800 people ahead of me in seniority who want the same positions that I do.
~ being stressed out all the time
~ … and the list goes on. Ugh.
If you haven’t worked in this environment yet, count yourself lucky. I read somewhere, a while ago, that 1 in every 7 people have at one point in their lives worked in a Call Centre.
March 28, 2007 at 6:13 pm
Zita! How are things going? Are you surviving???
March 30, 2007 at 5:54 am
Ya, I’m good, thanks for checking up on me:)
I’ve been meaning to write to you and on here too, but I’m telling you … this place is sucking the life out of me.
I’m looking, still looking. Applied to a few UofT jobs thanks to you:) So we’ll see. I’m keepin’ it positive, yo.
Ciao.