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Working in a call center is the worst. Pure torture. But that's common knowledge. It's strange to think that somebody would fight to keep that job. It illustr

Working in a call center is the worst. Pure torture. But that's common knowledge. It's strange to think that somebody would fight to keep that job. It illustrates the depths of the ubiquitous mindfuck under which we operate. I mean, what if the torture was replaced with a more obvious torture? What if you spent 8 hours a day getting your fingernails pulled out? At a good hourly rate and with nice benefits of course. Would we squeak?

ilaksh 3y ago
Read the article. The other job options for her were worse.
xur17 3y ago
Ms. Sherrod from the article seems to disagree with you here: > Within months of working at the casino, Ms. Sherrod felt the toll of the job on her body. Her knees ached, and her back thrummed with pain. She had to clean at least 16 rooms a day, fishing hair out of bathroom drains and rolling up dirty sheets. > When a friend told her about the jobs at AT&T, the opportunity seemed, to Ms. Sherrod, impossibly good. The call center was air-conditioned. She could sit all day and rest her knees. She took the call center’s application test twice, and on her second time she got an offer, in 2006, starting out making $9.41 an hour, up from around $7.75 at the casino.
anonymousab 3y ago
In many cases the only options are equally shitty or shittier jobs with worse pay.
karaterobot 3y ago
> I mean, what if the torture was replaced with a more obvious torture? Speaking as someone who worked in a call center for less than a month before quitting because I hated every second of it, having your fingernails pulled out seems a lot worse. I'd take the call center job. Another thing that's worse is being broke, I'd take the call center job over that too, if those were my only choices. I'm not sure about a ubiquitous mindfuck, but I know we operate under the need for food and shelter.
inglor_cz 3y ago
Some people are not as sensitive as me or you. Diversity in action. (The real one.) For a more extreme example: most of us wouldn't think about applying for the job of a hangman, but whenever there was a vacancy, the authorities were inundated with applications.
- swayvil 3y ago
  What's not to like? Wear a hood. Pull a lever. Get your fat check. It sure beats answering a phone.
failuser 3y ago
They have an option to quit now. If the job is so awful, but people still do it the alternatives must worse. E.g. becoming homeless or an even worse job. I’m pretty sure we will see a spike in both.

ilaksh 3y ago

Read the article. The other job options for her were worse.

xur17 3y ago

Ms. Sherrod from the article seems to disagree with you here: > Within months of working at the casino, Ms. Sherrod felt the toll of the job on her body. Her knees ached, and her back thrummed with pain. She had to clean at least 16 rooms a day, fishing hair out of bathroom drains and rolling up dirty sheets. > When a friend told her about the jobs at AT&T, the opportunity seemed, to Ms. Sherrod, impossibly good. The call center was air-conditioned. She could sit all day and rest her knees. She took the call center’s application test twice, and on her second time she got an offer, in 2006, starting out making $9.41 an hour, up from around $7.75 at the casino.

anonymousab 3y ago

In many cases the only options are equally shitty or shittier jobs with worse pay.

karaterobot 3y ago

> I mean, what if the torture was replaced with a more obvious torture? Speaking as someone who worked in a call center for less than a month before quitting because I hated every second of it, having your fingernails pulled out seems a lot worse. I'd take the call center job. Another thing that's worse is being broke, I'd take the call center job over that too, if those were my only choices. I'm not sure about a ubiquitous mindfuck, but I know we operate under the need for food and shelter.

inglor_cz 3y ago

Some people are not as sensitive as me or you. Diversity in action. (The real one.) For a more extreme example: most of us wouldn't think about applying for the job of a hangman, but whenever there was a vacancy, the authorities were inundated with applications.

swayvil 3y ago
What's not to like? Wear a hood. Pull a lever. Get your fat check. It sure beats answering a phone.

failuser 3y ago

They have an option to quit now. If the job is so awful, but people still do it the alternatives must worse. E.g. becoming homeless or an even worse job. I’m pretty sure we will see a spike in both.