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What's the worst job you've ever had? (self.askuk)

submitted 8 months ago by Oneeightnine to c/askuk

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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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[–] Honytawk@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If your sign for a job that you know irritates every single person that comes into contact with, then that is on you.

If every person had the respect for others to refused those jobs, then those calls wouldn't exist.

[–] filtoid@lemmy.ml 1 points 8 months ago

I think you may misunderstand what I did. It was reaching out to people who had opted in to be part of market research. If they said "don't contact me again" or if they were hostile then they got on the "no-call" list and were never contacted again. The only way that we could have got their phone number is if they submitted it during some sort of sign-up process somewhere. So I think you might be equating the work I did with something else.

The "cold" part of the "cold-calling" I mentioned above was because they weren't explicitly expecting the call, but they had somewhere signed up and agreed to be contacted.

Refusing to take work is a rather privileged position, not everyone has that luxury, and I didn't at the time. That being said I was out of there as quick as I could find something else (I only did 2 weeks).