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It’s quite priveledged to describe call centre work as degrading and mechanistic. It’s a bit boring but it’s clean, office based work where you get to use you
by benjaminwootton 3y ago
It’s quite priveledged to describe call centre work as degrading and mechanistic. It’s a bit boring but it’s clean, office based work where you get to use your brain.
I would prefer to speak to a good call centre worker than email back and forth or filling in forms that go into black holes any day of the week.
- lolinder 3y agoDepends a lot on the call center. I worked in technical support for a while, and while dealing with awful customers was awful, I did get to use my brain and creativity to solve problems and that was fun. I have family and friends who have worked in call centers where they have quite literally been selecting lines from a script to read off. That's a very different kind of experience, and it's the obvious type of job for AI to replace. Those family and friends might be stressed to have to find a new job, but they're not going to miss it for its own sake.
- flangola7 3y agoNo, it is degrading. Most soulless agonizing job I ever worked, would cry on my commute home on many days.
- benjaminwootton 3y agoI would rather work in a call centre over factory work, food production, retail, cleaning etc. None of these jobs are fun, but millions of people have to do them.
- colechristensen 3y agoI work in a kitchen on weekends for fun.
- fakedang 3y agoI once did cleaning and groundskeeping for fun, back when my spine allowed it.