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What's the worst job you've ever had? (feddit.uk)
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What's the worst job you've ever had? What made it bad and how long did you last?

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (20 children)

Cold calling telemarketing ("Do you have time to answer some questions about x?"). Felt grotty with every call (got yelled at a lot too, be nice to people who call they likely don't want to call you any more than you want to receive the call), lasted 2-weeks.

Swapped out to data entry of paper responses into a spreadsheet, was so much better but only lasted 2 days before I went back to the phones. Am verg grateful I don't have to do that any more.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (6 children)

got yelled at a lot too, be nice to people who call they likely don’t want to call you any more than you want to receive the call

  1. comma splice
  2. I hate being mean or obtuse to callers using my phone to sell me things or defraud me too. I'll bet the humanity on the other end eventually caused you to change jobs too -- because the seediness was a known quantity at the start but being in the line of return fire was definitely the catalyst. This is the goal.
[–] southernbrewer 2 points 9 months ago

Hyphen or semicolon or full-stop here, not comma.

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