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Old 04-05-2013, 05:14 PM   #11621 (permalink)
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Best way to describe my job is "legal assistant" which is just the fancy way of saying "bitch". The trip was to set up a system for a new business venture I'm involved in with setting up businesses for asset protection for foreign investors buying up American real estate. The person we were staying with in Mexico is a CPA (Certified Public Accountant) and will be overseeing the taxes for these companies that I set up. It's not that exciting but the pay is good.
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Old 04-05-2013, 11:56 PM   #11622 (permalink)
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For "customer privacy" reasons, they have banned CELL PHONES (and "anything with an on switch that isn't your computer;" their words) from the floor at work. They have also banned ink pens, and any writing utensils.

This has destroyed everything I do in between calls. I either doodle/write poetry, or I'm on my phone playing games or checking Facebook/Craigslist/Amazon/musicbanter. Or texting.

They opened the floor to any questions at our board room meeting. One guy asked if there had been a privacy breach or anything, and they said, "No, but we don't want there to be, so..." Yeah. Good logic, I guess?

People kept throwing out things to ask if they were banned. I sarcastically mumbled my question about whether or not writing with ones' own blood was banned.

It is.

People weren't happy. General grumbles of disapproval and thinly veiled rage were apparent in our interactions with our bosses. They gave us papers to sign, and in unison, three people sarcastically asked, "How do you expect us to sign them if writing utensils are banned, effective immediately," To which all of my fellow oppressed masses chimed in with an emphatic, "Yeah!"

I know people who work in government jobs or with fairly sensitive information who are allowed to have writing utensils and doodle or whatever. They asked us to think of other ways to break up the tedium. I said that I'd take up origami. Others agreed that would be ****ing awesome.

I see a lot of paper cranes on desks in my company's future. One girl said she was bringing in Play-Doh. Another, legos.

They suggested books. Knowing from personal experience that reading books in between calls is difficult at best, infuriating at most times, I said so. Others chimed in with their experiences.

But, seriously. It's not like we did anything stupid on company time. I've never seen a single person messing with their phone on a call...we put them down when the headset beeps. No one in the company has ever taken sensitive information. No one really cares to. A few people mentioned that, "Dudes, we deal with people who can't pay their bills...seriously...what would we have to gain from their financial information? They don't have any money."

I'm kind of pissed off. Especially now that the queue has died down, and we sometimes have five or more minutes between calls at certain times in the day, especially when three shifts or more are overlapping.

I mean, I like having a job more than using my cell phone on the floor, but that doesn't stop their strict regulations of late from being stupid and irritating. When we're not on a call, and we're staying quiet, doodling, writing, coloring, doing crossword/sudoku puzzles (I mean, I can understand the cell phone thing more than the pens; that's just ****ing torture) we're not wasting their time, and we're not costing them any money.
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Old 04-06-2013, 12:26 AM   #11623 (permalink)
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For "customer privacy" reasons, they have banned CELL PHONES (and "anything with an on switch that isn't your computer;" their words) from the floor at work. They have also banned ink pens, and any writing utensils.

This has destroyed everything I do in between calls. I either doodle/write poetry, or I'm on my phone playing games or checking Facebook/Craigslist/Amazon/musicbanter. Or texting.

They opened the floor to any questions at our board room meeting. One guy asked if there had been a privacy breach or anything, and they said, "No, but we don't want there to be, so..." Yeah. Good logic, I guess?

People kept throwing out things to ask if they were banned. I sarcastically mumbled my question about whether or not writing with ones' own blood was banned.

It is.

People weren't happy. General grumbles of disapproval and thinly veiled rage were apparent in our interactions with our bosses. They gave us papers to sign, and in unison, three people sarcastically asked, "How do you expect us to sign them if writing utensils are banned, effective immediately," To which all of my fellow oppressed masses chimed in with an emphatic, "Yeah!"

I know people who work in government jobs or with fairly sensitive information who are allowed to have writing utensils and doodle or whatever. They asked us to think of other ways to break up the tedium. I said that I'd take up origami. Others agreed that would be ****ing awesome.

I see a lot of paper cranes on desks in my company's future. One girl said she was bringing in Play-Doh. Another, legos.

They suggested books. Knowing from personal experience that reading books in between calls is difficult at best, infuriating at most times, I said so. Others chimed in with their experiences.

But, seriously. It's not like we did anything stupid on company time. I've never seen a single person messing with their phone on a call...we put them down when the headset beeps. No one in the company has ever taken sensitive information. No one really cares to. A few people mentioned that, "Dudes, we deal with people who can't pay their bills...seriously...what would we have to gain from their financial information? They don't have any money."

I'm kind of pissed off. Especially now that the queue has died down, and we sometimes have five or more minutes between calls at certain times in the day, especially when three shifts or more are overlapping.

I mean, I like having a job more than using my cell phone on the floor, but that doesn't stop their strict regulations of late from being stupid and irritating. When we're not on a call, and we're staying quiet, doodling, writing, coloring, doing crossword/sudoku puzzles (I mean, I can understand the cell phone thing more than the pens; that's just ****ing torture) we're not wasting their time, and we're not costing them any money.
Are you a bill collector?
If so, I hate you.
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Old 04-06-2013, 12:33 AM   #11624 (permalink)
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Are you a bill collector?
If so, I hate you.
I am. But I'm first party, so it's only for one particular company. I don't call on "behalf of" said company, I call "from" said company. I field inbound and outbound calls.

I'm not the "****ING DEADBEAT, WE WILL GARNISH YOUR WAGES!" kind of collector. I'm the kind who just advises that they could experience service interruption or be forwarded to an outside collection agency.

And I'm sure everyone who speaks to me on a daily basis resents me to some extent, haha.
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Old 04-06-2013, 06:13 AM   #11625 (permalink)
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Pretentious artists who I like their page on face book, and I am friendly with and compliment ttheir work, yet they never respond to my invites to my page.
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Old 04-06-2013, 07:37 AM   #11626 (permalink)
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Pretentious artists who I like their page on face book, and I am friendly with and compliment ttheir work, yet they never respond to my invites to my page.
I get the same treatment from some of the musician FB friends. WTH.
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Old 04-06-2013, 10:15 AM   #11627 (permalink)
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Wow, I have no idea what you just said.
It was a joke implying that being on a Pacific Island means that you live adjacently to cannibals.
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Old 04-06-2013, 01:53 PM   #11628 (permalink)
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I am. But I'm first party, so it's only for one particular company. I don't call on "behalf of" said company, I call "from" said company. I field inbound and outbound calls.

I'm not the "****ING DEADBEAT, WE WILL GARNISH YOUR WAGES!" kind of collector. I'm the kind who just advises that they could experience service interruption or be forwarded to an outside collection agency.

And I'm sure everyone who speaks to me on a daily basis resents me to some extent, haha.
Like I said before --- and I know it's easy for me to talk --- you need to get out of that job. Draconian measures like that are just going to drive people away and then they can have all the secrets they want. Banning pens??? What the hell? Do they think people are going to use them as weapons? Next you'll be told you can't think independently on company time! Who are these morons? I know, you can't say...
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Old 04-06-2013, 02:47 PM   #11629 (permalink)
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It was a joke implying that being on a Pacific Island means that you live adjacently to cannibals.

I'm in Seattle and I'm a cannibal
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Old 04-06-2013, 04:10 PM   #11630 (permalink)
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these things were made for people with giant ears.



I had this huge mental rant going about this last night, but now I can't remember it, so ... I'll just leave it at "these things make me want to toss things".
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