Who's every tried Telemarketing?

[cynicalprofit 0]

So yeah I tried to be a telemarketer today, 5 hours later and ZERO apointments set, I quit. I'm not a sales type person. But what artist ever was.

 

Anywho, just wondering if anyone cared to share an experience being the telephones bitch.

 

(Yes thats a spelling typo in the title) Mod fix please......please.....

[Guest Man Of 1,004 Modes]

I get pissed at just hearing "Hello would you like to buy..." so if I was a telemarketer, I'd probably go postal worker on everyone and open fire.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

The closest I ever came was asking people to do phone surveys. Of course, during the interview for the job I asked if this was cold calling or if the surveys were pre-arranged. I was told everything was pre-arranged.

 

It wasn't.

 

Six hours later I was out the door...

[Guest Dids]

I've answered phones for a living, now I supervise people, some of whom answer phones for a living. It's somewhat lame, and that's when they're calling you.

 

Telemarketing must suck.

[Red Baron 0]

I did it for three hours.

 

The last customer I flipped on him, and i got fired/quit

[NoCalMike 0]

closest I came to this type of job was doing prank calls when I was 12 years old, asking people to participate in fake surveys.

[HurriShane 0]

I got hired to do telemarketing for a carpet cleaning company once. And I was there for like two or three hours realized the job sucked, and told my boss I had to go to the bathroom went to my car and never came back. So yeah telemarketing sucks

[Steviekick 0]

The closest I ever came to telemarketing was being forced to volunteer at a campaign office for my Political Communication class. 10 hours of pure hell.

[NoCalMike 0]

I got hired to do telemarketing for a carpet cleaning company once. And I was there for like two or three hours realized the job sucked, and told my boss I had to go to the bathroom went to my car and never came back. So yeah telemarketing sucks

That reminds me of a temp agency I had a bad experience with. When I signed up I specifically said No Warehouse, so they call me up with a job with Alhambra, so I get there and the job is loading and unloading the Alhambra trucks. The first 2 hours you are flat out lifting water jugs and arranging them according to the cap color. Needless to say, I took my permanent lunch break that day.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I got hired to  do telemarketing for a carpet cleaning company once. And I was there for like two or three hours realized the job sucked, and  told my boss I had to go to the bathroom went to my car and never came back. So yeah telemarketing sucks

That reminds me of a temp agency I had a bad experience with. When I signed up I specifically said No Warehouse, so they call me up with a job with Alhambra, so I get there and the job is loading and unloading the Alhambra trucks. The first 2 hours you are flat out lifting water jugs and arranging them according to the cap color. Needless to say, I took my permanent lunch break that day.

Ugh. Don't get me started on temp agencies.

 

Too late.

 

When I first moved to Sappy Valley and quit my aforementioned phone survey job, I went to a place called "Preferred Temps" because I saw an ad in the paper by them pimping a graphic artist opening. The job itself wasn't bad at all, but it was seasonal work and third shift (which I loved because there wasn't as many workers there and we could stretch out a bit). Now, I was told NEVER to talk about scheduling with the supervisors there (If I needed time off, etc.) because I was a lowly temp. Now remember what I said earlier about seasonal work? Well, there were a few days when I would arrive and they would tell me that there was no work for me to do. No problem -- I understood that going in. Besides, the drive was only five minutes away.

 

Now one afternoon before a shift, I called the temp agency up to see if I would have enough work that night. The reason I called was because it was snowing like crazy and I didn't want to risk crashing my car for nothing. Well, about two hours later I got a call back saying there was enough work that night. I explained to her why I did this and she said "Oh, you should have been told ahead of time that there was no work for you. When this happens you're entitled to half-a-day's pay." I then responded, "So when am I going to get compensated for those days that I drove to work only to be sent home." Her: "Oh, well you have to let us know the week when it happens." Me: "But how am I supposed to know when you never told me about this." Her: Silence.

 

There was also the time in Middletown when I applied for a job at Mid First Credit Union through The Palmer Group, but that's another story for another time...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Water is one of the gayest things in the world to have to lift a lot of. I was shipping out 64 cases of bottled water per pallet, several dozen pallets a night, for Kroger last summer. That's in addition to all the other food and bullshit they ordered.

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

Temp agencies are a rip off. Around here, they just serve as a way for a local warehouse to pay people less and fire them after ninety days regardless of how good they are at their job.

 

$6.71 an hour to ship a thousand cases of SHOES a night? Fuck off, Stride Rite.

 

I worked there for exactly one night. Place was a goddamn classy sweatshop.

[Stephen Joseph 0]

I worked on our Alumni Association's donations call center for a year.

There at least when you call, people are for the most part very nice and actually do give money.

Old people wanted to talk about the old days of Ga Tech

And we had Pizza.

And Drinks.

And then we were told if we exceeded our goal by 15% we could get a kegerator down there in the center.

 

It was good.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

I worked on our Alumni Association's donations call center for a year ... It was good.

Man, if one of those alumni telemarketers every call me that would be the LAST time I ever get a ring from my former place of education...

[nl5xsk1 0]

I did telemarketing for a few months, and really can't understand why you all hated it so much. I thought it was a blast, people would get so pissed off at me for calling them, and since they didn't know me or my real name, I could just antagonize them. People always think that yelling at, or being mean to, a telemarketer will 'show them', but for me, it was the highlight of my night.

 

I remember one women yelling at me for asking for her husband by his first name, compared to calling him Mr. Whatever. I just let her go on and on and on. She was finally like 'get a real job', and I told her that I had a real job, and only did the telemarketing for extra spending money ... and because she had already provided her credit history in a previous call, I could confirm that I made almost twice what her beloved husband made.

 

The sheer rage in her voice while she was cackling at me brings a smile to my face to this day.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

That's funny.

 

The reason I didn't like my job was because it was running into a brick wall. It was so unproductive, and if I want to be unproductive at my job I want to do it by posting here...

[Guest Agent of Oblivion]

The hell do you do, anyway? I see you being some kind of disgruntled cubicle hamster.

[kkktookmybabyaway 0]

You pretty much described it...

[Guest Goodear]

I used to work in the inbound call center for a Medicial Marketing Research Company and let me just tell you that doctors are the worst human beings on the face of the planet. There is simply nothing worse than having to listen to a doctor complain about getting a free dinner, demanding that he get lobster instead of steak, and then having the powers that be give it to him... and then calling all the other doctors and offering them steak too.

 

I also used to work at Sears as one of the monkeys that would put stuff in people's cars. The best day ever was when one dick who worked out in lawn and garden wanted us to pull a part off a lawnmower and give it to a customer. Like if I knew that much about tractors I would still be working as a glorified human handtruck.

[stahl 0]

I've been a telemarketer for four (yes 4) years and its not all that bad. Sure I wake up every morning and think about swallowing a bunch of pills and then as im shaving, I look at the shiny blade of my razor on my neck through the mirror...

 

In all seriousness though, you can either do it or you can't. I have had a bunch of friends tease me before, and one time a buddy of mine got a telemarketing job.... 9 hours later he had a new found respect for me and what I do since he couldn't stand it. You have to be able to tolerate it and if you can do that you are pretty much set. You also have to be good at being a "phony". The hours suck and the pay can be good or bad depending on where you work, but it's not total hell.

 

I just hate when telemarketers call me..