Long hours in a cubicle

[Blacktophat]

i work at a call center where i do roadside assistance for truck drivers. the second i hang up the phone it rings again and i have to say a ridiculously long intro (sometimes over 300 times day) and has become burned into my skull after a year of this place. its a cubicle farm. row after row..

i have to stay seated usually for 4 hour blocks at a time. its so unbelievably repetitive. BUT i get as much OT as i want and take advantage when i can. long days are usually 2pm-6am sometimes i leave earlier.

a few things make life easier.

1. the obvious. loading up on mj. as much as possible. i rarely have to talk to people in person. i get 2 breaks when i work double shifts so i stay high.

2. sometimes i sit on hold for 3-9 minutes and i usually spend that time on these forums on my phone.

3. i picked up the art of pen twirling. i drive people around me crazy dropping it on the keyboard all the time but guess what.. fuck em! ive been spinning for 8 months and im alright. it sucks until you get the fundamental down but stick in there!

thats about all i got... anyone have any tips? besides quitting.. lol i only need to work at this place for maybe 4-7 more months.

btw first thread ive ever started.. WOOHOO!

 

[Kaendar]

Are there any hot chicks where you work?

 

[smok3h]

i work at a call center where i do roadside assistance for truck drivers. the second i hang up the phone it rings again and i have to say a ridiculously long intro (sometimes over 300 times day) and has become burned into my skull after a year of this place. its a cubicle farm. row after row..

i have to stay seated usually for 4 hour blocks at a time. its so unbelievably repetitive. BUT i get as much OT as i want and take advantage when i can. long days are usually 2pm-6am sometimes i leave earlier.

a few things make life easier.

1. the obvious. loading up on mj. as much as possible. i rarely have to talk to people in person. i get 2 breaks when i work double shifts so i stay high.

2. sometimes i sit on hold for 3-9 minutes and i usually spend that time on these forums on my phone.

3. i picked up the art of pen twirling. i drive people around me crazy dropping it on the keyboard all the time but guess what.. fuck em! ive been spinning for 8 months and im alright. it sucks until you get the fundamental down but stick in there!

thats about all i got... anyone have any tips? besides quitting.. lol i only need to work at this place for maybe 4-7 more months.

btw first thread ive ever started.. WOOHOO!

I've never had a cubicle job, but yours doesn't sound all that bad. I could deal with the repetitiveness.

 

[Blacktophat]

its not bad at all honestly im just venting after a 15 hour shift...

Are there any hot chicks where you work?

yea theres always cute college girls who are there as temps but im in a relationship and i hate square ass dumb bitches either way lol

 

[smok3h]

its not bad at all honestly im just venting after a 15 hour shift...

Yeah, 15 hour shifts are pretty awful.

 

[Refusedpanda]

i also work in a cube city and without my iphone and pandora i would go crazy. you have the right idea on picking up pen twirling to kill the time. what i started doing was to learn how to write with my left hand since im right hand dominant. it also depends on how much down time you have at your job, it sounds like you're pretty busy with that call volume so your additional activities may be limited.

 

[Blacktophat]

i also work in a cube city and without my iphone and pandora i would go crazy. you have the right idea on picking up pen twirling to kill the time. what i started doing was to learn how to write with my left hand since im right hand dominant. it also depends on how much down time you have at your job, it sounds like you're pretty busy with that call volume so your additional activities may be limited.

yea in the winter i get 15 minute idle time in between calls. summer ZILCH.

i also forgot to mention that i used mturk to make additional money in my down time. and chacha.

both the bastards banned me for going WAY too hard lol. mturk i made 340 in 3 weeks only doing it while i was at work. and chacha 260 in 1 week before they banned me haha.

 

[Total Head]

i work at a call center where i do roadside assistance for truck drivers. the second i hang up the phone it rings again and i have to say a ridiculously long intro (sometimes over 300 times day) and has become burned into my skull after a year of this place. its a cubicle farm. row after row..

i have to stay seated usually for 4 hour blocks at a time. its so unbelievably repetitive. BUT i get as much OT as i want and take advantage when i can. long days are usually 2pm-6am sometimes i leave earlier.

a few things make life easier.

1. the obvious. loading up on mj. as much as possible. i rarely have to talk to people in person. i get 2 breaks when i work double shifts so i stay high.

2. sometimes i sit on hold for 3-9 minutes and i usually spend that time on these forums on my phone.

3. i picked up the art of pen twirling. i drive people around me crazy dropping it on the keyboard all the time but guess what.. fuck em! ive been spinning for 8 months and im alright. it sucks until you get the fundamental down but stick in there!

thats about all i got... anyone have any tips? besides quitting.. lol i only need to work at this place for maybe 4-7 more months.

btw first thread ive ever started.. WOOHOO!

count yourself lucky. my call center has a zero tolerance policy on cell phones. if it is even visible you are subject to immediate termination depending on who catches you, so i can't browse anything on my phone and they have really nanny controls on the internet. for a while i wasn't even able to access cnn.com, but we convinced management that we sometimes have to know the news to build rapport with customers. they took away instant messaging because someone was sexting 2 years ago

some things that entertain me:
i decorate the photos on my calender, play desktop bowling, make post-it sculptures, chat with neighbors, clean my desk/mouse/keyboard etc, draw comics depicting coworkers and customers, fuck with my neighbor's desk when they have a day off, stand up, sit down, rearrange the shit on the wall, make noose out of headset cord, stare at clock, etc.

one of my favorite pastimes is learning to play tunes on the hardphone keypad. i have mary had a little lamb and london bridges perfected so far.

 

[obijohn]

I've worked in that kind of Job before, and yeah, no cell phone use, there was a dress code etc etc. but we could record our greetings so it played automatically when a call rang in, so we didn't have to repeat it every time.

 

[Blacktophat]

count yourself lucky. my call center has a zero tolerance policy on cell phones. if it is even visible you are subject to immediate termination depending on who catches you, so i can't browse anything on my phone and they have really nanny controls on the internet..

wow i couldn't imagine not being able to drool over grow journals in spare time. they tried a no cell phone policy last year and it didn't go over well. (nobody listened) lol

sexting hahaha. we have an IM but it only lets us speak with other agents in the building. so at least i never have to personally talk to co-workers.

 

[Blacktophat]

I've worked in that kind of Job before, and yeah, no cell phone use, there was a dress code etc etc. but we could record our greetings so it played automatically when a call rang in, so we didn't have to repeat it every time.

wow dude im going to pitch that to my supervisor tomorrow not even playing.

 

[Blacktophat]

heres an idea of my intro but ill try not to give away too much so nobody from work could stumble across this thread and call me out!

thank you for calling ******** **** **** *********. my name is *******. would you like to ***** **** ** ******** ***** or ******* ***** **** ** **** issue or mechanical?

 

[Total Head]

wow i couldn't imagine not being able to drool over grow journals in spare time. they tried a no cell phone policy last year and it didn't go over well. (nobody listened) lol

sexting hahaha. we have an IM but it only lets us speak with other agents in the building. so at least i never have to personally talk to co-workers.

as if the restrictions weren't enough, they have the ability to not only remotely view my monitor, but they can also commandeer my mouse and keyboard. i shit you not one day my arrow started moving, clicked onto a blank email, and the guy typed "this is work related, right?". i responded, "wtf?" and got spoken to about it. you don't even want to know about the attendance policy.

 

[Blacktophat]

as if the restrictions weren't enough, they have the ability to not only remotely view my monitor, but they can also commandeer my mouse and keyboard. i shit you not one day my arrow started moving, clicked onto a blank email, and the guy typed "this is work related, right?". i responded, "wtf?" and got spoken to about it. you don't even want to know about the attendance policy.

dang. i guess i am luckier than i thought. half my coworkers wont even show up half the time. our attendance policy is a joke. we are allotted 40 hours a year that we can call in on however we choose. and if we go over the 40 hours then we get a "review" which i bet is nothing more than a slap on the wrist.. i have to pay bills so im in that bitch every day unfortunately. and wow thats sad they actually pay people to sit around and harass their employees via keylogging software. seems like a huge waste i dont see how they keep employees!

 

[Perfextionist420]

I work in a call center too, but just regular office hours. 830 to 5 and I spend half the day waiting for a call to come in, my utilization % is like 65 so I spend the rest here

 

[SFguy]

im at work right now... waiting for the phone to ring... ask and ye shall recieve someone just called now im back to RIU

Edit. our company has remote login too i have needed help before and called it so they signed into my computer and started moving my mouse too pretty crazy. also some sites like youtube and facebook are firewalled/restricted but RIU is nt blocked... hmmm

 

[mr2shim]

I see a lot of you guys work at call centers. Don't have any in my area(middle of fucking nowhere)

 

[Carne Seca]

I see a lot of you guys work at call centers. Don't have any in my area(middle of fucking nowhere)

I like working at home. I have my desk at the window facing Shiprock so I get a breathtaking view all day.