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Saturday, November 18, 2006

Our first tale of work scum comes from Jen, who whiles away her days in telesales. She writes:

I admit it, I hound people over the phone for a living, selling computer equipment and junk. It wouldnt be so bad if our system wasnt stupidly out of date. The system that autodials phone numbers for us is so shitty that it doesnt register when you try to delete someone from the list. This means me and the other employees end up repeatedly phoning the same angry, angry people every day.

I told you yesterday we dont need any fucking toner! someone told me today.

Are you retarded? someone asked last week. I have told you a billion times to remove us from your mailing list, they ranted.

Weve told the boss over and over again that the system needs fixing but he doesnt seem to care that we get cussed at all day. I actually had to get my friend who works at [xxx] to buy some toner so I could make target this month. I feel like Im not in telesales, Im just a professional abusee!!

I suspect that there will be more tales of managerial incompetence to come... If you, dear reader, also get abused for a living then the Office Devil would like to hear from you.

posted by Office Devil @ 3:05 PM

2 Comments:

At 3:24 PM, Praz said…

I didn't get Dilbert, until I started working in an office. Now that I do, it's kind of sad.
At 1:47 PM, Andromaque said…

Hey, snap, one of my friends had exactly the same experience with a call centre; but she got called much worse names. Why are the idiots always in charge?