ridicully | Hopefully I will remember this as the shortest time I had ever held a job.

Second day of work and I claimed to be going crazy at the job to have an excuse to quit. I don't think I actually am crazy, but it is certainly one of the most stupid things I've ever done.
Though taking a job in a call center competes for that title.

Because one of things that define me as a person is that I really, really hate to disturb other people.

Not so much in the 'talking in the cinema' sense but in a more general 'is my existence an incovenience for you?' sense. (Strangely enough, I also have enough self-confidence for three people.)
Mainly because of that, I hate to phone people. I'm fine when they call me, but if I have to call a person I've been friends with for ten years, I still have trouble doing it before 2 and after 6 p.m.

So, a job where I have to do outgoing calls? (Even if it's only to actual clients, that not only have agreed to be called, but in some cases also *expect* it.)
Very bright idea.

I did a short four hour shift yesterday, and realized that I simply can not do it. Not literally, I think I managed 30 actual contacts per hour, but ... mentally (*spits and washes out mouth* ewww, dirty word. But I can't think of a better one). This is especially silly when I consider all the things I've done before. I've got no problem cleaning up shit or biking through the rain; doing nothing but listening to beeping noises or calling out the numbers of fast moving cars doesn't really faze me; I don't have too much trouble with having to get up twice every night for weeks or doing data entry at six in the morning but making phone calls? Please no!

Since I took the job mainly because I don't feel comfortable without at least enough money in my savings account to let me live for two months (shut up, I know I'm strange), I decided that feeling a bit more comfortable about my finances wasn't worth hating every second of the job and spending the rest of the day resenting the fact that I would have to go back.

Only problem is, that I'll now have to pay them back for the training*. So I this bright idea actually cost me money.
*headdesk*
I guess I'll chalk that one up to life experience.

*Which was an experience in itself, since the trainer was one of the only two people I've ever met, that I just could not get along with. But also couldn't ignore.

And now, back to ~~procrastinating~~ studying.

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I know exactly what you mean--it's why I'm doing retail work when call center work pays more. But it's hit here too. The department store I work at has its own credit card, which makes me hate America and its culture of debt. Plus I don't like people asking me if I want to sign up for the credit card when I go shopping somewhere. But all of us cashiers are getting lots of pressure from management to ask every customer if they want the damn card. Anyone who hasn't gotten a person to sign up for the credit card gets their name put on a big list, which is posted in the employee rooms. So they want me to invade every customer's space with an annoying question about a thing they probably don't want that I'm against anyway. Why? Because if our store collects enough credit card applications, the owner gets a bonus! Arrrrrrgh.

I know exactly what YOU mean. :D I used to work for a big chain of bookstores, and I LOVED it until they introduced their discount card. Back then, it was only 10 dollars to join for a year, and you got 10 percent off - pretty easy to justify, really. But I HATED that we had to ask EVERY customer if they wanted one. Sure, someone buying a bunch of books, well, the card would nearly pay for itself on that visit. Easy to ask. Sometimes I would barely even ask, I'd just pull out the app and hand it to them, if they were buying more than $100 worth of books. But dude buying a magazine (which didn't even qualify for a discount?) . . . still had to ask. And I'd say that of the people who didn't want to buy the card, about half of them were obviously annoyed by being asked (and sometimes were even very surly about it). It made me dread having to work at the registers. Why do companies DO that stuff?

*shudders* That job sounds like my worst nightmare, too. I did "telemarketing" once, too, AGES ago (when I was still in high school). Hated it passionately, and quit after a week or so. I'm like you - I hate the idea of bothering people. AND I know how much I hate to be bothered by people I don't know calling on the phone.

I have great empathy for you. *hugs*

Since I took the job mainly because I don't feel comfortable without at least enough money in my savings account to let me live for two months (shut up, I know I'm strange),

You are certainly not strange. I am considering gpoing back to being a cashier or tutoring in Maths because of that very reason. I have enough money at the moment, but as soon as my bank account has less than two months worth of rent? I go crazy and live off toast and butter...

I'm jealous. Am currently working my butt off just to make this month's rent. Stupid not finding a job until recently.

My parents pay my rent and food and stuff (full time university student here), so everything is basically covered. But not things like going out for dinner and to the cinema very often, and I really don't liek to beg for money, so I'll try to make 40 to 60 € a week in addition.

I know your pain only too well - I did a call-centre job on a temporary basis two years ago now, and it was HELL.

Never, ever doing that again. Seriously, it's not worth it.

Yeah, outgoing calls are hell
Incoming ones on the other hand can be fun.¨
That is why I did the first for only half a year, the second since 2 years now

Hopefully I will remember this as the shortest time I had ever held a job.

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