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My job is ruthless...
(May be a tiny bit lengthy, but I suggest reading for your own benefit.)
I just started working for this "tele-research" company, where--of course--we call people all day long to gather information to create a better environment, or as we say. However, this is not how it works:
Let's call my company A. So, we are company A, and all these other companies (B, C, D...) pay us to conduct serveys for them. We call people and get their opinions so we can report than info back to the company so that company can get more money and such. But, since we arn't technically making any money or selling anything we arn't being held bound by any law and can call people as many times as we want and whenever we want. (I also think it's cheap how we trick people in thinking that their info is harmless, but it only helps big corporations.) And, I've tried looking some of the companies up and couldn't find much information on them. We get really personal information such as income, address, and number of residents in the home. But, here's some advice for you or headsup for you:
1 - The NDNCL (National Do Not Call List) does not apply to us. So, if you get mad that we call you--we have to--then we will call you back. You have to listen to us or we call you back.
2 - We automatically set a 90 minute call back if you hang up on us before we finish our intro speech.
3 - If you simply say you are not intrested then a 90 minute or 1 day call back.
4 - If you don't mention anything about adding your specific number to our do not call list we call you back...forever.
5 - We have work for many companies, so we can call you back a lot, and in fact, it's just us under different names.
6 - We target areas and buy phone numbers so when we are doing research we continually call the same numbers.
I'm wondering if I've called anyone on this site in recently? Anyone have any problems with tele-research.
The ultimate thing you need to do is this: "Are you a teleresearcher? Then could you please add me to your do not call list? Thank you." If not, you are not safe.
I absolutely despise my job--that's why this is up here. It's supposed to be secret. I believe were extremly misleading.Last edited by PhilsterT; 07-12-2006 at 10:54 PM.
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Wow, well I don't blame you I guess because you need to eat right? How much do you get? How old do you have to be? I wouldn't mind doing that.
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Wage is between $8-10 an hour depending on "how well you do."
I'm 17. (I think you can start at 16.) It's funny. But, it's a bunch of young kids (cheaper wage?).
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What's the policy if, during your opening speech, the person you're calling bursts into a joyous rendition of "This is the song that never ends". I've done it... the poor girl couldn't keep focussed and eventually just hung up.
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I'd simply take the phone off the hook.
Originally Posted by PhilsterT
Or if I wanted to have some fun, simply speak Korean to the person.
Or disagree with everything they say.
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My number back in the states was targeted by you guys.
Lets just say you didn't really annoy me, I enjoyed it. In fact my goal everytime a tele-researcher called me was to get them to hang up before I hung up. Normally after a long time, and hearing the guy get really stressed out he finished.
Frankly if you guys call Germany i'd be more then happy to give you my # for some fun. I'm sure i'm one of those guys that when guys are your breaks you talk about how annoying I was.
People fail to reliease how much fun you can have with busienss poeple who call your house. You can play with them, you can make fun of them, you can insult them, you can do w/e you want and make it as difficult as you want and you know they going call back anyways, I got countless hours of enjoyment out of you guys.
Like if I would get a call, i'd be like o sorry I jsut got out of bed with my wife, then i'd descirbe in vivid detail how I just nailed my 250 LB wife, and now I was going go over to her friends house who was 270 LBs. And i'd be as vivid as I could, guy never believed me but as he was trying to do his research on me, i'd just annoy him, I knew if I asked not to be put on the do-no call list by the compoany they wouldn't call again, but it was too much fun.Last edited by Nik00117; 07-13-2006 at 05:14 AM.
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I usually say "No one is home right now" and hang up.
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I tell them that I'd like to ask them some personal questions, as well. That usually works.
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Eventually someone will actually take the time to file a (class-action) harassment suit and this will change... Originally Posted by PhilsterT
A child does not learn to squat from the top down. In other words, he does not suddenly make a conscious decision one day to squat. Actually, he is squatting one day and make the conscious decision to stand. Squatting precedes standing in the developmental sequence. This is the way a child's brain learns to use the body as the child develops movement patterns. Therefore, a child is probably crawling, rocks back into a squatting position with the back completely relaxed and the hips completely flexed, and stands when he has enough hip strength. This approach makes a lot of sense and can be applied to relearning the deep squat movement if it is lost. -Gray Cook
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Are you the 800 service? i tell them off BRUTALLY all the time. lol.
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Okay, for my company, we don't hang up on people really, except if we are being messed around with and then we set a callback. And, no one is home right now gets callback for 90 minutes of 1 day.
We have people that have tried to file lawsuits and it doesn't ever work because we're simply not selling anything.
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I used to have taht job, 9$/hr. I quit after 3 weeks, I wanted to kill myself. I would entertain myself by making up names for myself,
Like "Hi this is ________," some of the names I have used are: Trent Steel, Max Power, Bob Dole, Harrison Ford, Jack Daniels etc... You get the idea.
Some guys would just try and **** with my head, it was quite entertaining really. This one guy pitied me so much b/c he had to do the samething in college so he went along with the survey..
I was doing credit card surveys, and basically there was like 2 sets of questions the person had to answer PER credit card, the lady I had on the line had every creditcard ever issued by any company. I was on the phone for my entire 5 hr shift. She stayed on b/c at the end of the survye we mail you 5$. She was a nice lady.
When I read the title I thought you were a Cleaner/Hitman for a living.nemo me impune lacessit
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In high school I had a call center job, I actually enjoyed most of my shifts due to a policy we had that if a person on the other line swore at you or offended you in any way you could hang up. It didn't take long for me to develop verbal instigation technique. They changed this policy soon after I left, probably because none of the calls were being finished lol.
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Originally Posted by Thexile
I would have :alcoholic or killed myself right then and there.
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How many times do you guys get through to people? I mean, like out of 100 calls, how many answer all your questions?
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It really depends on the surveys length. On the short survey(s) (3 minute ones), last week, I got 54 in a 9 hour shift. For the longer ones I get anywhere between 1-10 in a 9 hour shift. The longer surveys are around 20 minutes.
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They are calling me, they could hang up on me anytime they wanted too.Eventually someone will actually take the time to file a (class-action) harassment suit and this will change...
I once however did recieve a call back from a manger or somthing asking me not to be so rude to her employees, I then tried to sell her somthing and she hung up, it was a long time before we got any calls like that again.
I don't think anyone could fill a succesfull lawsuit about me playing around with them on the phone when they called me..."It is the soldier, not the reporter who has given us the freedom of the press.
"It is the soldier, not the poet, who has given us the freedom of speech.
"It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, who gives us the freedom to demonstrate.
"It is the soldier who salutes the flag, who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, who allows the protester to burn the flag."
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It is not about solicitation - it is about unwanted phone calls and disturbing people's privacy. I understand that all it takes is a simple 'remove me from your calling list', but most people do NOT. Originally Posted by PhilsterT
I am certain that lawsuits could be successful if people were willing to spend the time to do the documentation/recording neccessary.A child does not learn to squat from the top down. In other words, he does not suddenly make a conscious decision one day to squat. Actually, he is squatting one day and make the conscious decision to stand. Squatting precedes standing in the developmental sequence. This is the way a child's brain learns to use the body as the child develops movement patterns. Therefore, a child is probably crawling, rocks back into a squatting position with the back completely relaxed and the hips completely flexed, and stands when he has enough hip strength. This approach makes a lot of sense and can be applied to relearning the deep squat movement if it is lost. -Gray Cook
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Well, I heard of maybe people tring, but because we don't call between 9PM and 9AM I don't think it works. But, possibly...so far it hasn't worked though. I wouldn't care either way.
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thanks for the post.
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lmao Originally Posted by toki
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That's sick man, lmao Originally Posted by Nik00117
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