What A Way To Make A Living

So I perform the single most ridiculous job a person could get paid 15 bucks and hour to do. Basically we've all seem those "win a free ipod" banners on web sites. Well the people who click on those and do the survey's and sign up for the offers, basically I call them back and tell then I'm going to send them another offer via email. I confirm there email address, and send them the email. Bam! That's it. I modified there pitch, and took a more aggressive approach so today (my first full day on the phone) I did double what every one else.

They don't monitor your calls, they don't watch over you, they don't even care when you go for lunch or breaks. You just disappear. The lunch room is the size of a basketball court, it has a Nintendo Wii for the employees to play at lunch, and all the snacks and drinks in the vending machines are under 50 cents.

The place itself is the size of a football stadium, but there is almost no one working there. Every one is spread around this huge office like nomad tribes. Hell I have no idea what the other people who work in the place even do. They say it's temp to hire. I don't know how long it will go on. Could be days, months, or years. This seems like the kind of place where you show up to work one day just 15 minutes before the FBI raids the place.

No one seems to have any idea what they're doing though my manager has that kind of extremely soft spoken passive aggressive exterior, but deep down you know he would stab his own mother in the back. I've spoken less than 3 sentences to him. He once asked me how things were going. I said "good", and he walked off.

It's tedious as shit. Basically today I made 301 phone calls, I got 23 verifications, and had 19 people hang up on me. That's 42 people I spoke to out of 301 in 8 hours. That's about a 13 percent contact rate. So as you can imagine I spend most of my day just dialing and dialing to no avail.

Oh and get this, they don't even want you to rebuttal when a person says no. I still do from time to time, but they basically require I do nothing, but keep dialing. They don't even have a quota.

Still I have not slept in two days. I have been on the verge of puking almost constantly. I cannot drink on week days now. No more than a glass so my body now has to adjust to many new things amongst waking up before noon. Last night I got home and crashed at 9:30, woke up at 1:00 am, and never got back to sleep. Considering I only slept 3 hours the night before, I am the walking dead.

It's all very strange though. I've stumbled into some kind of office version of Xanadu. Only instead of untold earthly pleasures the trees bare fruits of boredom. Without the pressure of quotas, and thick ex-cons breathing down my neck when I don't dial fast enough I find I can sell again. I kind of even like it. I see the people I call as my enemies. I want to destroy them with my emails. Oh such emails I will send! Now suck on this! He says "anti" clockwise instead of "counter" clockwise!!!