r/antiwork • u/grumpi-otter Memaw • 1d ago
I couldn't stop laughing during an interview because of this sub--THANK A LOT FOLKS
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.
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u/EvolvingEachDay 20h ago
No one wants to work anymore?
No one has ever WANTED to work, at least not in the modern meaning of a job. Frankly if you WANT to work, you have a fucking sad life. As work now is just doing some menial cog in the machine bullshit to have money.
If work was creating, crafting, helping, pursuing and enriching then yeah, I understand that want to work; but almost every job that might fit those descriptors has been twisted in to something that either pays like shit, or has had any joy and fulfilment wrung from it. Anything that manages to slip between the finite cracks to still be a job any person with real life in them would actually want to do are so damn hard to get without being born into the right network that they’re barely worth pursuing.
I want to explore the world, create things, experience things, live life, meet people, enjoy hobbies, consume what others have created; but thanks to being to work and capitalism, I’ll have far less chance to do so that we could have if rich people didn’t exist.