Testimonies: Why I hate working in a call center

by RubyUnicorn

Call Centers, ugh, necessary evil, however I have stories to tell you about call centers. I have worked for call centers on and off for the last 20 years. The horrors are all true. Not being allowed to go to the bathroom...read more

by Penocea

Why I hate working in a call center. Being virtually chained inside a grey prison for 8 hours with constant reminders that you are doing a bad job and having no control over your environment that leads to trips to the doct...read more

by Stacie Dexter

Tied to a phone line with 72 calls in the queue the repetitive buzz of the call centre is unbearable. However when employed by a typically cash crazed Telesales organisation the volume of calls is often the least of your w...read more

by Errant

Once Hell is full, the dead will walk the Earth. Same thing with call centers. I hate working in a call center because it's where the disenfranchised masses must go once the public service industry is full. Bartendin...read more

by Stephen Owens

Its Monday morning at nearly eight o'clock and the traffic is gridlocked at the junction with the dual- carriageway, which surrounds the little industrial estate wherein lies my Utopian workplace. In reality, I hate workin...read more

by Wendy Ware

To my great shock and horror, I have been employed at a call center for a year and a half. Every morning the sense of dread that envelops me is overwhelming, and I am not sure how I have managed to muster up the strength ...read more

by A. Dean

Telemarketers. Don't you just love these people? They call and wake you up on Saturday mornings. They call and interrupt that quality time with the family in the evening, always during dinner of course. They call on your p...read more

by Ashley Nuckles

If you relish your freedom and enjoy having control over the path your day takes, then I advise you to never accept a job in a call center. Have you ever read 'The Secret'? I have, and it's all about how if you think posit...read more

by Excalibur Snape

The people on the other end of the call can be very, very abusive if they are not abusive they are just plain dumb or both. The have no patients they want everything like yesterday and if you are not fast enough to help ...read more

by Misty Smith

Call center work sure isn't what it's cracked up to be. However most companies offer great benefits and incentives to sign on with them. The work is sometimes tedious and occasionally pretty boring. It is nice if you enjoy...read more

by Koren Ribken

I'm a woman of age, I guess you would say I've been around the block. After a few years of being out of the workforce and my last experience in an interview ripping me apart; I decided to go to an employment agency for a ...read more

by Tamma Ocain

I've had several call center jobs over the years. I managed to keep a market research job for two years, where I conducted surveys over the phone. I'm now stuck in a telemarketing/appointment setting job. Why do I hate it?...read more

by Emma Stapleford

First of all the only reason I hate working in a call centre is the fact that I have to take calls from people who think they're better than me simply because I work in a call centre. I dont hate the place or the people. ...read more

by Kohana Tani

I have worked in various call centers for the last four years and I don't have many positive things to say about it. With all the call centers outsourcing to India, The Philippines and other foreign countries tied with su...read more

by Elaine Jackson

Could be a matter of low tolerance for silliness, but I've worked in only one call center and find it to be emotional/slave labor at it's best, exploitative to say the least. I take inbound calls for University applicants...read more

by Lisa Fagan

I've been working in call centers on and off since 1983, and I hated some of them; both inbound and outbound. I've had to deal with the constant pressure from supervisors to keep my dialing and production rate up, while...read more

by Jeremy Mitchell

I can begin by saying that I'm not an idiot. There have been instances I called a Call Center and did speak with an idiot, but I did not assume that each person thereafter with whom I spoke at a call center was going to be...read more

by Pedro Pacheco

Most people hate calling to call centers. Every time they have a technical problem they always complain and get upset just thinking about call centers. I personally dont like them too! Most of the times they dont know what...read more

by A Johnson

Oh the joys of answering the telephone via a computer in a call center! Regardless of whether you are on inbound calls, answering customer inquiries or outbound calls, where you are cold calling said customer, you are ...read more

by Chad Foster

Why I hate working in a call center? The question moreover should be "Who doesn't hate working in a call center"? There are so many reason's. I believe a book should be compiled with testimonial's of why people hate workin...read more