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Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:27 am
by Corazon de Leon
Poser wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:Harry Ellis wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:Contact centre work is utterly awful on every conceivable level. I’m off for a week and already dreading going back. Glad you like it, but you have definitely won the thread with that hot take.
Are you or have you been approached about a leadership role? You've been there a long time.
No, as they know I’ve been looking for the exit door for the past year.
To be fair, I wouldn't promote someone who can't find the way out of a building either.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 11:47 am
by Drumstick
Poser wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:Harry Ellis wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:Contact centre work is utterly awful on every conceivable level. I’m off for a week and already dreading going back. Glad you like it, but you have definitely won the thread with that hot take.
Are you or have you been approached about a leadership role? You've been there a long time.
No, as they know I’ve been looking for the exit door for the past year.
To be fair, I wouldn't promote someone who can't find the way out of a building either.
Prawned.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:13 pm
by Prototype
Poser wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:Harry Ellis wrote:Saigon Slick wrote:Contact centre work is utterly awful on every conceivable level. I’m off for a week and already dreading going back. Glad you like it, but you have definitely won the thread with that hot take.
Are you or have you been approached about a leadership role? You've been there a long time.
No, as they know I’ve been looking for the exit door for the past year.
To be fair, I wouldn't promote someone who can't find the way out of a building either.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 12:21 pm
by Lagamorph
I've never had to work in a "call centre" as such but I served my time on a 1st Line IT Service Desk
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 11:24 am
by Preezy
Outrunner wrote:Festivus Maximus wrote:Outrunner wrote:These days Chromebooks are a viable replacement for PCs or Macs
I'm actually looking at getting a Chromebook, just waiting for Google to release the Pixelbook Go before I enter the market.
I've been using Chromebooks exclusively for a few year now (at least at home, I still use Windows PCs at work and occasionally at university) and I still get the whole "why don't you use a real computer?". I'm fine with using Windows but I couldn't see myself going back to a "real computer" any time soon.
Just to follow this up, I got a Pixelbook Go today (late Xmas/birthday present) so I'm really looking forward to getting home and having a proper play about with it. Looks to be a very nice, premium looking piece of kit.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:35 pm
by Lex-Man
Lagamorph wrote:I've never had to work in a "call centre" as such but I served my time on a 1st Line IT Service Desk
I've had to do a load of third line support and dealing with people who should be technical is bad enough. I swear a lot of them don't know the difference between Linux and Windows.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 12:47 pm
by OrangeRKN
Linux is opaque
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:00 pm
by Lex-Man
OrangeRKN wrote:Linux is opaque
I'm dealing with people who are paid six figures whose job it is to manage severs and they spent ages trying to install and 'exe' on a Red Hat box.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:03 pm
by Choclet-Milk
I know all of those words individually...
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:07 pm
by Lex-Man
Chocolate-Milk wrote:I know all of those words individually...
Basically they tried to install a Windows program on a Linux server. I guess if your job wasn't installing stuff on Linux servers it would be forgivable.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:09 pm
by Preezy
Who's Linux? Is he an IT guy as well?
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:10 pm
by Lex-Man
Preezy wrote:Who's Linux? Is he an IT guy as well?
He is the most IT guy.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:36 pm
by more heat than light
I really dislike dogs. Like, stop invading my space and jumping at me and licking me.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:40 pm
by Pedz
I thought contact centre were those thing we're chdren could see their parents supervised. Did Jeremy Kyle lie?
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 1:40 pm
by Pedz
Hard to type on bws very bjmp
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:07 pm
by Corazon de Leon
more heat than light wrote:I really dislike dogs. Like, stop invading my space and jumping at me and licking me.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:10 pm
by That's not a growth
Cora is Loki confirmed
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:15 pm
by Pedz
Cora's to bald to be a dog. Maybe a cat though.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:27 pm
by Corazon de Leon
You got me. Here’s a picture of me from five minutes ago, in a Vienna beer hall.
Re: The Unpopular Opinion Thread
Posted: Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:28 pm
by OrangeRKN
Pedz wrote:I thought contact centre were those thing we're chdren could see their parents supervised. Did Jeremy Kyle lie?
Post-brexit Britain they fund those through putting the kids to work on online chat support
