h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

CAN BE BIT TEDIOUS AT TIMES WITH ODD WORKING PATTERNS AND STUFF.
IM IN ONE RIGHT NOW , BORED CAUSE TOO MANY PEOPLE NOT ENOUGH CALLS

You might want to ease off on the CAPS SPEAK. On here it's considered to be shouting. Just a bit of friendly advice

I'm thinking of applying to a call center. What's the one you work in like?

I've got my first shift in one tonight! Training (unpaid!) all weekend, and now they're going to let me loose on the phones. Outgoing calls, and it's just market research surveys instead of selling, so we're like the good guys in the world of cold calling. National crime surveys, all that jive. Seems a decent place, nice atmosphere, staffed entirely by scruffy studenty types with a few mad old women presiding over the whole thing. Should be a larf.

Interesting fact no. 1:
In call centres they have speakers in the roof pumping out quiet white noise to muffle the sound of the people working alongside you, without spoling your sound signal through the mic.

White noise, eh. Now that I think about it, of course you'd need it, otherwise everone would go crazy. Or more crazy.

Any more gems of wisdom for us, MrPin?