Another Day
Another day at work - sometimes it is EXTREMELY boring as one must wait for a call to be placed (all computer generated) then you read your intro and hopefully, you get someone who would "like to take a survey"!
Then, you get to ask them all sorts of questions, depending on the type of survey - sometimes it can be boring or monotonous, but overall its OK, the worst is getting a fax machine - OW! The ears! Lots of answering machines, too!
Some cute answering machine messages were - "You have reached the number you called" and "If you are a lawn mower, hang up, if human, leave a name and number". Which I thought was funny - I have a dear friend who hates getting answering machines and he leaves messages like "If I wanted to talk to a machine, I could go in the yard and talk to my lawn mower" .
And what can be interesting in this work (and I think kind of cute/sad) is when they want to go on and on about their lives - mostly the elderly - which makes me realize we should talk more with our elder citizens - they are lonely, but can have interesting and wonderful things to talk about - after all, they have lived a fair amount of time on the earth and have much to tell if you listen!
Then, you get to ask them all sorts of questions, depending on the type of survey - sometimes it can be boring or monotonous, but overall its OK, the worst is getting a fax machine - OW! The ears! Lots of answering machines, too!
Some cute answering machine messages were - "You have reached the number you called" and "If you are a lawn mower, hang up, if human, leave a name and number". Which I thought was funny - I have a dear friend who hates getting answering machines and he leaves messages like "If I wanted to talk to a machine, I could go in the yard and talk to my lawn mower" .
And what can be interesting in this work (and I think kind of cute/sad) is when they want to go on and on about their lives - mostly the elderly - which makes me realize we should talk more with our elder citizens - they are lonely, but can have interesting and wonderful things to talk about - after all, they have lived a fair amount of time on the earth and have much to tell if you listen!