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u/DadBodftw Jul 23 '25
There's no way there's a company that pays sales ppl by time spent in call
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u/Augussst4 Jul 23 '25
So you're saying that this greentext is fake and gay?
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u/ShortsAndLadders Jul 23 '25
Truth is, anon really is a call operator for a phone sex hotline for gay elderly men
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u/TraumaPerformer Jul 23 '25
F + G Analysis:
>work
Fake
>talk to old people (50% of whom are male)
Gay
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u/Heavy_Equivalent6747 Jul 23 '25
Thats impossible, everything said on 4chan is 100% factual and true
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u/Healthy_Initial_8187 Jul 23 '25
Customer support, maybe. Even then, their metrics would be on the amount of calls completed and how quick it was resolved. You're fucked if there is survey too.
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u/Admirable-Ad-5026 Jul 23 '25
I know banking and cellphone calls a lot but I think they receive per call count rather than time so they're basically spam calling everyone that has debt and if you get a new number that passed by the hands of someone with a unpaid bill they will annoy you too
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u/cococolson Jul 23 '25
Small companies don't have advanced metrics, there are plenty of tiny ones that just consider shove support into a back office and forget about it.
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u/cocainebrick3242 Jul 23 '25
I'm doubtful there's many companies that conduct sales through calls at all anymore.
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u/qwertyalguien Jul 23 '25
They do. THEY REALLY FUCKING DO. It's so bad my country had to pass special legislation against spam calls.
It's stupidly easy because they use an autocall and link you up with a seller of you pick up, but they do so many calls they often lack operators, which is why you sometimes get those spam calls that don't answer and end the call after a few seconds.
You can even hire all your labour from some shithole the other side of the world and pay them in peanuts.
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u/IrregularrAF Jul 23 '25
I used indeed once about in 2020 and had a million spam calls everyday. I think my block list is about 400 rn. Including an unpaid medical bill for like $200, that added about 70 numbers, all the same caller. Lol
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u/sly_cooper25 Jul 23 '25
There are tons of them. It's still one of the more productive ways to sell a product because a lot of people feel social pressure once they've picked up the phone. Some hang up, but most people that answer will hear out a salesperson because they don't want to be rude. Granted you're really only talking to Gen X or older because nobody younger than that answers for an unknown number.
I think every company by now also tries to sell via email, text, and social media as well in an effort to reach younger people. It's far too easy to just ignore or not respond to that stuff though because there's no social pressure.
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u/InquisitorMeow Jul 24 '25
Maybe for the ones trying to scam old people like life insurance or something. Younger generation doesn't even pick up unknown number calls.
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u/Funneduck102 Jul 23 '25
You’d be surprised, I almost got a job at one before I thought about how shitty it would be
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u/CemeneTree Aug 02 '25
I know. that was what my mom did 30+ years ago, and she checked back in the 2010s and the entire calls division was shut down
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u/StanIsHorizontal Jul 23 '25
Yeah right? It’s either shit pay plus commission, or pay per call made. There’s nowhere that would incentivize you to spend a bunch of time listening to Debra’s problems. I know bc I’ve done a fair bit of call center work and I’ve never been cut out for it because I let people talk for too long
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u/abuninja Jul 23 '25
I’ve worked for a telecommunications company that was payed by the hour worked, not by time spend in calls tho. Yes you could make commissions but there was a cap the amount was laughable compared to the base salary anyway. I’ve spend many hours talking to sweet old people instead of taking the next call since there was really no incentive
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u/TheCapitalKing Jul 23 '25
It sounds very similar to what the call center workers at the company I work for do. We do cell phone troubleshooting for a monthly fee and it’s a usually old people that are lonely calling in. Then the big bosses want the call center workers to upsell advanced troubleshooting for a higher price .
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u/SolidusAbe Jul 23 '25
nah i knew someone who did something but for medical devices and her calls were like an hour long because their target audience was 70+. she had a good base salary + a bonus whenever she sold something. also raided with some 50+ yo women who was a callcenter agent for one of those shopping channels on tv and she was paid pretty as well simply for talking to old people at 2am
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u/TheCynicalBlue Jul 23 '25
If he's calling them, it's probably the number of calls. If they call them, it's about keeping them as long as you can on the line to upsell normally.
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u/Icy_Significance9035 Jul 24 '25
Yeah. I can't imagine they dont pay mostly by commission. Otherwise everybody would do exactly this and they would hemorrhage money immediately
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u/DoorsToZeppelin Jul 23 '25
I have mad respect for people like you that do this kind of work. I hope they don't overwork you too hard, brother.
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u/DoorsToZeppelin Jul 23 '25
That's rough. Talking to others helps alot and you are helping her cope in ways we probably can't imagine. We'll all (hopefully) get old one day and will probably want all the company we can get.
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u/Nikoviking Jul 23 '25
calls people to sell phones
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u/Electrical-Help5512 Jul 24 '25
Not as charming when you're a nurse with 5 other patients that need something though. Yes Gladys I know you're proud of your grand-nephew who just made the JV lacrosse team but I have one patient laying in their own feces and another one who thinks it's 1982 and they're in an argument with their ex wife.
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u/Allison-Ghost Jul 23 '25
fake: anon gets paid for making no sales
gay: anon's only contact with women is advertising to old grandmas
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u/CaterpillarLoud8071 Jul 23 '25
Anon is forced into volunteering for Age Concern for his autismbux, and still hasn't worked out what he's supposed to be doing
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u/Kurineko_Regan Jul 23 '25
I work in a hospice call center, yeah. We have a time limit though so gotta make it quick.
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u/Revverb Jul 24 '25
I currently work as a phone agent for a bank, it's the same thing here, I just talk to old people with like $800k in CD accounts, and let them ramble about life in the 60's while I play games, because WFH.
Only difference from anon is that I usually have 20-ish minutes of empty time in between calls.
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u/thegrodyknudclump Jul 26 '25
is a salesman coldcalls people his entire job is to scam strangers hasn’t killed himself
Baffling
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u/thr33beggars Jul 23 '25
“Hey grandma Lauren, tell me about segregation again. I haven’t hit my sales quota again this month and I need a pick-me-up.”