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10p an hour? And he keeps them talking for longer? I have better things to do with my time. Edit: hour? I meant to write minute. Vagued out I guess.
by TheSpiceIsLife 8y ago
10p an hour? And he keeps them talking for longer?
I have better things to do with my time.
Edit: hour? I meant to write minute. Vagued out I guess.
- tecleandor 8y ago10p a minute, although checking rates for calling an 0871 in UK from a landline, it can be from 15 to 30p a minute.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoYeah oops, I meant to write minute. Vagued out for a minute there. Slip of the tongue, or fingers as it were.
- scarcely 8y agoSo a typo.
- TheSpiceIsLife 8y agoWouldn’t a typo be more like mintue instead of minute. I wrote an entirely wrong word spelled entirely correctly. Wikipedia has this to say about typos: A typographical error (often shortened to typo), also called misprint, is a mistake (such as a spelling mistake)[1] made in the typing of printed (or electronic) material. Historically, this referred to mistakes in manual type-setting (typography). The term includes errors due to mechanical failure or slips of the hand or finger,[2] but excludes errors of ignorance, such as spelling errors, or the flip-flopping of words such as "than" and "then". Before the arrival of printing, the "copyist's mistake" or "scribal error" was the equivalent for manuscripts. Most typos involve simple duplication, omission, transposition, or substitution of a small number of characters. (emphasis mine) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_error https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographical_error Hmmm. Definitely spending way too much energy here.
- benj111 8y agoIt isn't an error of ignorance, if you knew it was minute though? Your quote mentions "scribal error". Your spelling part of the brain knew what it wanted to write. The writing part inserted a different word. Now my lack of knowledge of brain parts is an error of ignorance, so 'spelling part of the brain' isn't a typo.
- cyberferret 8y agoPer minute. Keep them talking for 10 minutes and he gets a pound. If he is getting 30 calls per month and keeps each of them talking for just ten minutes, that is 30 pounds worth of beer money that month that he can drink with his friends at the pub - for about 5 hours work/month. Not sure how that compares with minimum wage in the US, but it may be close.
- fabricexpert 8y agoPeople really value getting things for “free” over working for them.
- ada1981 8y agoDon’t believe the florist when he tells you that the roses are free.
- benj111 8y agoIs this a saying? Google isn't returning anything, and I've can't think of a florist structure, where what you were actually buying was obscured. I wouldn't expect the quality of the free roses to be very good though.
- daleharvey 8y agoIn tourist destinations around europe (particularly Italy) there are people who go around with a bunch of roses and will try fairly forcefully to give a free one to your partner then fairly persistantly request a donation from you. Guessing thats what they are referring to although calling them a florist seems a push.
- benj111 8y agoOk, never come across that, even in Italy, but would make sense.
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- depressed 8y agoIf you are able to work on something else at the same time, it's free money. More importantly, he probably has a vastly different opportunity cost than you. If all he was doing was watching the TV, why not make a little extra money for no additional effort?
- justinclift 8y agoHook it up to a chat bot (as mentioned above), so it takes ~no time after configuration. :)
- perlgeek 8y agoI guess the feeling that you are being payed, even if a little bit, helps considerably to raise the mood.