Boss Amber Explains Call Center Hazards

[GOBUCKS]

Direct-marketing junk call center work is dangerous!

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:43 AM
Lady Freedom Returns (7,613 posts)

People need to think before they speak and act!

When someone calls you on the phone to do a poll, please remember they are doing a job.

We have had two incidents today regarding callers getting hurt.

First was a caller being asked for her phone number so the person being called could bother her at home when she was trying to relax.
The caller has no home, she lost it due to the bills from losing her husband a year and a half ago and her child 3 months ago. This comment hurt her greatly.

The next was an autistic gentleman we have. He is fantastic at polling. However, he is scared to death of those little party horns, the sound scares him badly. Someone answered the phone and blew one. The poor man was so upset, he had to go home mid sift.

The people who call you to do polls don't know anything about you save for maybe your name, the same goes for you towards them.
Please remember they are doing a job. If you wish not to participate, just say so and/or hang up.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025125263
A party horn! I never thought of that! Thanks, Amber!

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 01:52 AM
Star Member tblue37 (13,375 posts)
1. KnR. They are also under extreme constraints sometimes by supervisors.

Many people who take such jobs do so because they are the only jobs they can get.

Does that mean some people prefer a call center job?      


Oh, yeah. Those starry-eyed, idealistic young winos and mental patients:

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 02:05 AM
Lady Freedom Returns (7,613 posts)
2. We also hire on many young people...

Many with stars in their eyes about doing political polling.

Amber has seen 'em all pass through the call center during her six-week career. 

It takes about a week and they see that people don't really care

And that's how a deadbeat becomes really disillusioned.

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:24 AM
Star Member yeoman6987 (1,896 posts)
9. I try to be nice

And say I am not interested but some are agressive and won't take no for an answer. I just hang up on them now.

DUmmy yeomannumbers is the type that worries Amber. What about those starry-eyed young direct-marketing recruits?

Response to Lady Freedom Returns (Original post)
Fri Jun 20, 2014, 08:27 AM
Star Member doxydad (704 posts)
10. I respectfully disagree

There's no need in 2014 to do any phone solicitation of any kind. With all the other outlets for online surveys and polling, the LAST thing I need is somebody to call me up and bother me. This would be my opinion, and if you call, I'll flatly hang up. don't want to be bothered. PERIOD.

[BattleHymn]

We have had two incidents today regarding callers getting hurt.

Did she step on their foot?

[landofconfusion80]

Did she step on their foot?

they looked at her lunch.

[BattleHymn]

they looked at her lunch.

For Amber to maintain her girth, she's going to have to be packing in the calories like there is no tomorrow.  We've seen the "recipes" she's come up with that she's proud to post on the DUmp.  I can only imagine what she's cooking for herself on a day-to-day basis. 

[tanstaafl]

Jeez, I used to insult them all the time, when I had a land line phone.

Another trick I liked to play was to engage in a bantering conversation to see how long I could keep them on the line without getting any answers from me. At around the ten minute mark, if they hadn't already hung up on me, I tell them that I thought I had prevented them from making 4 or 5 additional calls. At that point they always hung up.

I'd say that Amber's call center had better hire some tougher skinned, mo' brazen people or their precious "Political Polling" numbers will suffer.

[Chris_]

The call center sounds just like the coffee house.  Imagine that.

[Carl]

Gosh,a lot of people don`t like being bothered with phone calls...who could have guessed?

[Dori]

From now on, I'm going to look at polls differently.

I would think the employees of these call centers work on a cume basis.  What's to prevent these DUmmies from writing down the answers they want, whether they talk to a live person or just get their answering machine?

[franksolich]

Hey, Amber dear, I know you're reading this, sweetheart.

I was first-hand, up close, caught in between two tornadoes on Monday.

First-hand, up close, although I will admit I didn't see them, as it was raining too hard where I was at.....right smack in between them.

Of course I got shook up, but I got over it.  I mean, it's not as if I was in combat where other people specifically were trying to kill me; it was just Mother Nature doing her job, and by random chance I happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.  It wasn't anything personal, so I got over it.  No allegations of "PSTD" here.

If it hadn't been raining so hard, this is what I myself would've seen:

And if I'd been up in the air, it would've looked like this:

It was a pretty big thing, Amber dear; the other one, the one that destroyed a whole entire city near here, was much smaller.

I tell you what, sweetheart; if I had to make a choice between encountering a phenomenon of nature that could destroy me--but it's not personal; nature doesn't have anything against franksolich--and encountering other people who specifically wish me dead--that's real personal, Amber dear--I'll take the first option any time.

So don't be trivializing PSTD by alleging you have it because of a long-ago tornado; you don't know shit, Amber dear, about the terror and fear those authentically afflicted with PSTD felt.  (And of course, neither do I.)

Grow up, sweetheart.

[GOBUCKS]

The "polling" part is 99.99% bullshit.

They say polling or survey because those things have a loophole in the "do not call" laws.

It's all telemarketing.

[Gina]

 

Oh Amber!  You made my day with that post 

[fatboy]

We have had two incidents today regarding callers getting hurt.

Workmen's comp.!

[Gina]

[FlippyDoo]

Fri Jun 20, 2014, 02:05 AM
Lady Freedom Returns (7,613 posts)
2. We also hire on many young people...

Many with stars in their eyes about doing political polling.

When I was young I wanted to be a truck driver.
A little older I wanted to an astronaut.
A little older I wanted to be a chemist.
And the list goes on, but at no time did I ever say, "I'd like to irritate the shit out of people on the phone."

[Mr Mannn]

From now on, I'm going to look at polls differently.

I would think the employees of these call centers work on a cume basis.  What's to prevent these DUmmies from writing down the answers they want, whether they talk to a live person or just get their answering machine?

and yet we are surprised when the polls are so spectacularly wrong.

[DefiantSix]

A party horn! I never thought of that! Thanks, Amber!

My dad used to keep a boat horn next to the land line for the same reason.

[GOBUCKS]

and yet we are surprised when the polls are so spectacularly wrong.

I've always wondered about telephone polling.

It's a very rare, peculiar type of person who will cooperate with a telemarketer call - which is all these annoying polls calls are.

So if they only get to talk to oddballs, how can they be accurate?

Yet they are. Astonishingly accurate - within their stated statistical range.

Really inaccurate numbers are usually because candidates leak bogus "internal polling" data as a campaign strategy.

("Internal polling" supposedly had Eric Cantor up by twenty points, hoping to suppress his opponent's turnout.)

You still hear people arguing about "too many dems" or "too many repukes" in the sample, but they're always wrong.

[Tess Anderson]

I wonder if what she's doing isn't very good for people with mental and emotional issues like Amber - there is too much rejection in the job and her grip on reality is tenuous at best.

She was supposed to be writing books about a year ago, and she uses Dave's last name then and now and often refers to him as "her husband". She lists her marital status as "in a complicated relationship" on FB, true with herself.

[Dori]

I wonder if what she's doing isn't very good for people with mental and emotional issues like Amber - there is too much rejection in the job and her grip on reality is tenuous at best.

She was supposed to be writing books about a year ago, and she uses Dave's last name then and now and often refers to him as "her husband". She lists her marital status as "in a complicated relationship" on FB, true with herself.

One time in a post she mentioned her "marriage".  ???????

[Chris_]

One time in a post she mentioned her "marriage".  ???????

I doubt she's married, unless she's convinced herself she's in some sort of common law marriage.

If there's one thing Amber has in spades, it's common.

[BattleHymn]

I doubt she's married, unless she's convinced herself she's in some sort of common law marriage.

If there's one thing Amber has in spades, it's common.

Yeah, and there is no common law marriage in Missouri, so I have no idea what she's talking about.

[Dori]

I doubt she's married, unless she's convinced herself she's in some sort of common law marriage.

If there's one thing Amber has in spades, it's common.

She recently posted this;

I haven't been inside a church since my wedding

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025107426

[Chris_]

She recently posted this;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025107426

She's a compulsive liar.  I don't think she's been in a church her entire life.

[DefiantSix]

She recently posted this;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025107426

You're forgetting the First Rule for dealing with DUmbshits, though:

"DUmmies lie; all the time, DUmmies lie."

[Tess Anderson]

She recently posted this;

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10025107426

that wasn't her, that was from Pitt but she did claim him as her husband in the past, and this post at a country music blog right before Dave dumped her last year is deja vu:

Amber BullockJune 5, 2013, 10:10 pmReply

I got to see Amarillo at sunrise on a Greyhound bus heading to a new life in Tucson! I lost everything in Joplin in May of 2011 and we needed a new start! My husband woke me up to ask if I wanted to live a song! It was an amazing sight to a person that live in a small town as long as I had!

http://countrymusicvideodirectory.com/george-strait-amarillo-by-morning-3/

She is mentally unstable. That's just one.