1. It’s telemarketing. Do I need to say much more than that to allow to to understand the hell that I go to every single day?

2. People who lie to me, curse at me, talk down to me, or otherwise actually strive to make my day miserable.

3. Management staff who treats me one step below the crap they may have inadvertantly stepped in earlier that day.

4. A cleaning service that comes only once a week and doesn’t wipe down any work surfaces. If you want a clean work area you are expected to clean it yourself, with your own products, on your own time.

5. The ladies bathroom is a germ-o-phobes worst nightmare. It is pretty common to find that it is missing one of the following: soap, toilet paper, or paper towels. So far, on a really bad day, we’ve been missing 3 out of 3.

6. I work with several nice ladies who, like me, are moms and/or wives. Unfortunately I also work with active drug addicts (we have had people shooting up in the aforementioned ladies’ room) and other potentially worrisome characters.

7. I also work with women whose homes I never want to visit, based on how they treat the aforementioned ladies’ room. Aside from the occasional tinkle on the seat we have found just about every other body fluid on some surface. Including but not limited to : blood and shit. Again please note that the cleaning service only comes once a week.*

8. Salaries are based purely on how many of your chiropractic appointments “show up”. Based on where you fall on a chart, your hourly wage may be adjusted. There is no annual review, there is no cost-of-living increase. Meaning you can “max out” and thus never get another raise – ever.  Additionally, the pay chart has never been adjusted to take into consideration the changing face of telemarketing (i.e. it is harder now than it used to be) or even things like inflation or cost of living. (the starting wage was $7-8 an hour eight years ago.  It is still the same today.

9. There is no sick time, there is no holiday pay, if the company closes for any reason you simply don’t get paid.

10. You CAN earn vacation days. Before you get too excited, remember this is things I hate … To earn a “free day” you have to work 12 Mondays in a row. If you miss one, you have to start your count over.  Time since hire does not apply.  (effective March 2007 this policy has been discontinued)

11. The computers are outdated and the software is, no lie, a joke to use.

12. There are times when you have to hunt for a phone to use — remember this is a publicly traded telemarketing company.

13. I have to go there again tomorrow.

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