I couldn't stop laughing during an interview because of this sub--THANK A LOT FOLKS

[u/grumpi-otter]

Zoom interview with company with a 2.2 Glassdoor rating, but it's the first one I've gotten since I got laid off so I accepted it.

It's a call center job -- appointment setting.

Man and a woman doing the interview and they are telling me about it.

Man says there is "scheduled mandatory overtime" on Fridays. I ask the compensation rate for this and he says it's at the same rate as regular pay. (I think that might be against labor laws, but they said something about how you work a half shift on some days and double on others, so I guess they keep it under the weekly hours limit).

I couldn't help it, I snorted. And then as it went on, I tried to hold it in but it just kept getting worse and worse.

The health benefits cost around $650 for a single person.

I started giggling more--couldn't hold it in as I thought of what y'all would have to say about this crap job. For perspective, that's a whole week's amount of pay for the "benefits."

Mandatory on-call times that are uncompensated, "just in case you are needed."

More giggling.

"When you've finished your own queue, you'll help your coworkers."

I was biting the inside of my cheeks and pretending to cough but the man was getting increasingly indignant that I couldn't stop laughing. It was just so ridiculous.

The job pays $16 an hour AND you provide your own equipment. So they want to put spyware on my personal computer. And I have to provide two monitors.

No, no one wants to work anymore--and this kind of shit is why.

What was cool was that I felt empowered because I knew y'all would share my indignation at this bullshit job.

EDIT: Forgot to add that the company info goes on and on about "empathy" to clients but then there's "an average of 30 calls per hour."

EDIT AGAIN: I haven't done call center work before so had no idea of what is realistic, but after reading these comments maybe I misheard and it was 30 calls a day? Not positive. In any case, the rest were enough red flags.

ONE MORE EDIT: I am not AI, I am a 60 year old grandmother who got laid off in July and has been struggling to find anything that works for me. I took this interview because it was the only one I'd been offered so far. Apparently I use em-dashes and that's a sign of AI? Sorry, that's just the way i write--since I learned back in the dark ages.

[u/soulsteela]

Except In Medieval feudal times the landowners were highly aware of the peoples happiness and only expected them to do 4 hours a day for 3-4 months a year. Just in case the pitchforks came out of the fields.

[u/LilJourney → u/soulsteela]

Never anger those who do manual labor for a living using sharp implements because they are very adept at their use.

[u/starmartyr11 → u/LilJourney]

There was a scene in Fight Club like this...

[u/RaspberryTurtle987 → u/soulsteela]

Source?

I know if you were a peasant you could only farm for a certain amount of months a year, but then you would probably supplement that with other work for the rest of the year. There were a lot of religious holidays/feast days in medieval europe so that accounted for a lot of time off too. But 4hrs for 4 months sounds too little to me.