I HATE MY JOB!!!
Posted: November 14, 2003, 9:08 pm
I work in a call center that is 24 hrs. No reason it should be 24 hours cause the call center only gets about 5-10 phone calls a night, which isn't worth it to keep it open 24 hours, but that's a different story...
So, holidays are voluntary, to give us a break every once in a while.
Now, I have worked 6 holidays in the last calendar year since we went 24 hours: Christmas, Christmas eve, New Years, Good Friday, Easter, 4th of July. As a call center associate, you're only required to work 2 holidays and the rest are voluntary.
Every year, my husband and I go to Michigan to visit his sister and family and they come to Chicago for christmas. This is a tradition that has been going on for many years. I am NOT about to break this tradition, so, because I've already worked 6 holidays, I don't plan on working this thanksgiving. I've already switched my sunday hours following thanksgiving to give me extra time up in Michigan so I can spend a nice 5 days relaxing without having idiot customers screaming in my ear 250 times a day. (yes, I average about 250 phone calls a day on a weekday)
Now, because my boss is a miserable, old, fucking bat who doesn't have any respect for anyone in the office, she's toying with the idea of taking away our friday after thanksgiving (which is a company holiday), because she doesn't have enough volunteers. She's too lazy to come in herself and answer phone calls, and basically, she said "oh fucking well" to those who already have family plans for this holiday. She's currently on everyone's shit list and has been for a very long time. She said that she doesn't work holidays cause she's got too many family committments. Oh, and her daughter and new son-in-law, like to stay on our payroll and come in at their leisure to pick up extra cash, but she always calls the office and tells them to come home so they can go shopping or some bullshit like that.
I am so pissed, that I called my dad and ranted and raved to him for 45 minutes. That poor man, he's probably having a heart attack from hearing his daughter say fuck so many times in one conversation... I'm so sick of customers calling in and bitching and moaning for stuff that is THEIR own fucking fault, and now I gotta deal with psycho-hose bitch boss who desperately needs to get laid. She's a mid-50's year old fat fuck who everyone hates, and only talks to the guys in the office cause they have dicks.
Ok, I feel semi-better now.
*runs outside screaming*
Let's hear YOUR bad work stories!
So, holidays are voluntary, to give us a break every once in a while.
Now, I have worked 6 holidays in the last calendar year since we went 24 hours: Christmas, Christmas eve, New Years, Good Friday, Easter, 4th of July. As a call center associate, you're only required to work 2 holidays and the rest are voluntary.
Every year, my husband and I go to Michigan to visit his sister and family and they come to Chicago for christmas. This is a tradition that has been going on for many years. I am NOT about to break this tradition, so, because I've already worked 6 holidays, I don't plan on working this thanksgiving. I've already switched my sunday hours following thanksgiving to give me extra time up in Michigan so I can spend a nice 5 days relaxing without having idiot customers screaming in my ear 250 times a day. (yes, I average about 250 phone calls a day on a weekday)
Now, because my boss is a miserable, old, fucking bat who doesn't have any respect for anyone in the office, she's toying with the idea of taking away our friday after thanksgiving (which is a company holiday), because she doesn't have enough volunteers. She's too lazy to come in herself and answer phone calls, and basically, she said "oh fucking well" to those who already have family plans for this holiday. She's currently on everyone's shit list and has been for a very long time. She said that she doesn't work holidays cause she's got too many family committments. Oh, and her daughter and new son-in-law, like to stay on our payroll and come in at their leisure to pick up extra cash, but she always calls the office and tells them to come home so they can go shopping or some bullshit like that.
I am so pissed, that I called my dad and ranted and raved to him for 45 minutes. That poor man, he's probably having a heart attack from hearing his daughter say fuck so many times in one conversation... I'm so sick of customers calling in and bitching and moaning for stuff that is THEIR own fucking fault, and now I gotta deal with psycho-hose bitch boss who desperately needs to get laid. She's a mid-50's year old fat fuck who everyone hates, and only talks to the guys in the office cause they have dicks.
Ok, I feel semi-better now.
*runs outside screaming*
Let's hear YOUR bad work stories!
While we, the older employees, gave up raises voluntarily one year and w/o option the next we are still one of the Top50 places to work in the nation... so that is saying something. One of the best things is our Holidays and PDO system. We get 2 days off at both Thanksgiving and Christmas plus a bunch of others. Our sick time and vacation is rolled into one call Paid Days Off... thus if you don't get sick much or work a lot of extra hours you get a good amount of vacation. New Employees start off with like 21 vacation / PDO days a year plus the Holidays each year. That's pretty good here in the US IMHO. 3rd year it jumps to 23 and 5th to 25.
