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Aug. 6th, 2019 02:58 amThe moment that I experienced last weekend, where I almost walked out of my job, has thankfully passed for now. I'm still really done with my job and hate everything about it, but for now it's a more tolerable annoyance, which is good; I'm not terribly outgoing with my searching and I need it to be annoying enough to keep me searching, but not so much as to completely shut me down or make me outright quit. The end date for me is definitely approaching, though. Not just for me, either. I can see the end for a lot of call centers like mine.
To be sure, politicians are likely to want the (push)polls to continue, so there is likely to be some leeway in their crusade against robocallers and spammers for what we do, but I think the phone companies are already enacting a few features that are seriously hurting our business already. I read a few weeks back about some of the companies considering a plan to send all calls not on one's contact list straight to voicemail without ever even ringing. Considering how very badly our jobs have been doing on cells lately, I definitely wonder if they haven't already started to roll it out. I absolutely want the spam calls to my phone to end, but I don't think that's the right way to go about it. There are a lot of times when we have to use someone else's phone to call somebody, and if they automatically don't ring, I feel like a number of important calls are going to get missed. Waiting to hear from a doctor? Nope. Someone calling from jail? Nope. Phone busted and you have to call from someone else's phone. Nope.
Anyway, the boat has been leaking more and more of late, and this rat cannot take much more before it flings itself over the side. The main reason I've staid for even as long as I have, apart from the fear of change, has been my co-workers. I've got some really awesome co-workers and it has helped tremendously, but it can't last forever, and my favorite there is likely to leave fairly soon anyway, so every reason I've had continues to fade away. I desperately long to know where I fit. The longer I've been at my current job, the more I've truly understood that my instincts and ways of viewing things are not meant for it. I can do an okay job at many things, but I'm geared toward something very specific, but I've not the foggiest what it could be. I know that the few things I really, really don't want to do, but those tend to often be the only things available. Blarg.
To be sure, politicians are likely to want the (push)polls to continue, so there is likely to be some leeway in their crusade against robocallers and spammers for what we do, but I think the phone companies are already enacting a few features that are seriously hurting our business already. I read a few weeks back about some of the companies considering a plan to send all calls not on one's contact list straight to voicemail without ever even ringing. Considering how very badly our jobs have been doing on cells lately, I definitely wonder if they haven't already started to roll it out. I absolutely want the spam calls to my phone to end, but I don't think that's the right way to go about it. There are a lot of times when we have to use someone else's phone to call somebody, and if they automatically don't ring, I feel like a number of important calls are going to get missed. Waiting to hear from a doctor? Nope. Someone calling from jail? Nope. Phone busted and you have to call from someone else's phone. Nope.
Anyway, the boat has been leaking more and more of late, and this rat cannot take much more before it flings itself over the side. The main reason I've staid for even as long as I have, apart from the fear of change, has been my co-workers. I've got some really awesome co-workers and it has helped tremendously, but it can't last forever, and my favorite there is likely to leave fairly soon anyway, so every reason I've had continues to fade away. I desperately long to know where I fit. The longer I've been at my current job, the more I've truly understood that my instincts and ways of viewing things are not meant for it. I can do an okay job at many things, but I'm geared toward something very specific, but I've not the foggiest what it could be. I know that the few things I really, really don't want to do, but those tend to often be the only things available. Blarg.
