It's a good thing my job pays what it does, otherwise I would have no reason to continue my job. Today at work (I do telephone polls at Syracuse University), I had such a slow day, with very rude people. Usually, it's alright, because every few times, I get someone willing to do a poll, and they're polite and quick. Actually talking to people makes the day go by much faster. But today, I went for about an hour with either no answer, or people quickly saying "No, I won't take it, because it would cause no harm to me, and I am way too busy to bother with a simple 4 minute poll where I don't have to think and just say which choice applies to me."...Okay, that's a slight exageration. But when the people are so rude really annoys me.
I had one lady today that, when I called her, said (and this is NO exageration) "Do you know what time it is?" I was kinda surprised at this, mainly because she cut me off while I was doing the "Hi, my name is Mike, and I'm calling because blah, blah. Would you like to participate?". I answer kinda slowly "Uh...about 8:30...", to which she replies "Yes, and I don't take calls this late, especially for polls", and hung up. I just sat there with my mouth slack, rather confused. I don't care if people say that they don't want to do it, and I'm polite and say sorry for bothering them, and to have a good night, so the way she made it seem like what I did was wrong and dirty annoyed me. Luckily, she was one of the last people to answer the phone, so I didn't have to make the too many other people stay up into the wee hours of the night, answering question after question...
Another kind of people I get a lot are the ones that yell that they're on the 'Don't call' list. That would apply, but the numbers we dial are all from the phone book, and we aren't selling anything.
Annoying callers, and I have to work on the day my sister goes back to college.
Of course, theres always the upside, like when I call someone who just likes chatting away, though my boss kinda frowns on that...Oh well. Usually it's old guys talking about how they don't give a Flying-F*** about if people smoke (that's the topic of this weeks survey), and then decide to tell me that at my age, he was landing on jet carriers, or telling me what the Final Jeopardy question was.
