Entries tagged with call center

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Пт, 06:58: Last day of call center work of my life, knock wood.
Пт, 07:08: Thinking of an AKOTAS calendar for family for Xmas. Thinking of making it available for sale. Though that would mean coloring IRL.
Пт, 07:19: (cont) Or I could finally sign up at CafePress.
Пт, 17:10: Free at last, free at last
Пт, 20:31: RT @LetsStopRape: We live in a society that teaches "DON'T GET RAPED" instead of "DON'T RAPE." That needs to change. RT this if you agree!!
Пт, 20:49: #AKOTAS sketch: fae freelance. http://t.co/nAkdumRq #webcomics #kingarthur

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Пн, 02:12: RT @neilhimself: Read this. And i endorse all his suggestions especially the fourth. http://t.co/jkEd5x8j
Пн, 06:44: @trinalin No. Has that been on BBCAmerica?
Пн, 06:45: Facing what I know to be my last week at the call center doesn't seem so bad as usual. Wonder how it'll be once I get there.
Пн, 15:23: Meant to lunch at 14:00. Managed to forget between am break and noon that the PC clock is an hour slow today.
Пн, 18:22: If I had a beard there'd be people who'd say I look like a tall George Lucas.
Пн, 19:22: Harold's Asian, Kumar is Middle Eastern - does either of them actually celebrate Christmas?
Пн, 21:59: X-Files theme as grocery store muzak?? owait the date
Пн, 22:23: I ought've told the security guard at the Dillon's grocery store to dress as the sherriff from Gunsmoke next year

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I've been working in the call center about fifteen months, which is about how long before that I was unemployed (except for a parttime retail position), and about how long I worked before that at the call center job I lost when the plant closed.

The new job is for a different department of the same company. This job is proofing computer transcripts of customer responses to interactive voice recognition system. When your cable company answering computer asks you to speak your choice between account information or technical issues, if they're our client I may hear what you say.

It's staff instead of production, and the pay and health benefits are better. But there may be an even better benefit than all that. I realized yesterday that both the burnout hiatus/timeskips in AKOTAS's history to date were conceived while I had different call center jobs.

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Job interview went well.

I had a job interview today with a different division of the same company as the call center where I work now. This job would be, basically, backstopping the clients' customer service IVRs by listening to and transcribing recordings of customer IVR responses. It would be more pay, and better health coverage; for no actual contact with customers, and no staying after shift for being stuck on a long call that came in two minutes before 17:00. I'd really like that and I think they liked me.

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From Twitter 12-08-2010

10:44:19: Break internet station at work now has the CPU on the desk where it can be reached. I wonder if I'd get in trouble using my USB drive there.
22:36:30: #AKOTAS updated: it's not like you didn't read this in school. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2394.htm #webcomics #kingarthur

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From Twitter 12-02-2010

00:05:35: My take on last week's hot topic: http://tinyurl.com/yu84rz/573351.html #buffy
16:34:25: That scripting is done now, and those are the only scripts for the week that still need rushes drawn.
21:40:48: Fairly pleasant workday at the call center topped off by the worst call ever. Fortunately I happened to reserve large calorie count.
21:44:01: I've totally lost the plot of #Megatokyo because, like @demiurgent, I can't tell the women apart.

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From Twitter 11-08-2010

09:13:45: I've never understood the point in not treating everyone as if they're the boss you're on your way to meet for the first time.
09:44:47: When I twitted about Westboro yesterday I didn't know they're in the news.
09:48:01: I'd like to show up at a Westboro counterprotest with a sign saying, "MATTHEW 25:45"
16:48:38: Not as down about work as last Monday. Perhaps the variable is having a plan for the week's AKOTAS.
21:15:25: Purty sure he had it first. RT @spastasmagoria I really, REALLY wish Clark Kent would give Martha Jones her jacket back.
22:43:34: #AKOTAS updated: not totally green. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2363.htm #webcomics #kingarthur

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From Twitter 11-04-2010

07:09:14: In a dream in a class I outlined a Doctor Who short-short in my head because I didn't have any paper. Will draw it today.
07:10:22: I think I was naked in the dream. But I was too bothered that I didn't have any paper to be bothered that I was naked.
07:12:00: Windows keeps telling me to click for solutions to computer problems, then not having any, without saying what it thinks the problem is.
08:17:23: Put a USB music player on my computer once, and now Windows has decided that the flashdrive is always f: instead of e: - why is that?
22:03:29: Guy at work shared some highlights of the Tennant/Simm commentary on the End of Time 2 DVD. Almost sounds like they did it in character.
22:15:10: It's 22:15 and I'm just sitting down to tomorrow's AKOTAS and the second 3faces this week. I hate firstandahalfth shift.
23:36:39: #AKOTAS updated: if there's such a thing as an "old school" AKOTAS gag, ... http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2360.htm #webcomics #kingarthur

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From Twitter 11-03-2010

08:19:16: Hated my job more Monday than yesterday. Wrote two AKOTAS Monday (well, scripted and drew two banked gags), none yesterday. arrgh
09:01:29: On the other hand, I finished my book. I don't have anything else to do on my breaks at work today.
13:02:16: The break computer is now loaded with the workstation IE so you can't enter a URL, which defeats the whole purpose of having it.
13:11:14: You should see what other webcartoonists twit.
13:12:03: I guess I write a lot about gagwriting on Twitter, but that's just like what I said about work twits: there's more immediacy with twits.
15:33:32: Those last two twits were sent, and meant to be read, in the opposite order.
17:38:17: @ThOnlyTrout That and/or, I suspect, they mistake having other beliefs than theirs for intolerance.
19:24:25: Wrote tomorrow's AKOTAS at the grocery store
21:57:55: #AKOTAS updated: election commentary. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2359.htm #webcomics #kingarthur

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From Twitter 11-02-2010

00:14:08: Dunno, letting it dry out some before I try it. RT @valsadie Is the drive totally hosed (so to speak)?
00:20:46: Flashdrive seems to have survived.
17:30:24: Don't hate going to work as much as I did yesterday. Maybe it was a Mondays thing.
23:36:52: #AKOTAS updated: the obvious answer, really. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2358.htm #webcomics #kingarthur

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From Twitter 11-01-2010

08:06:09: It fascinates me how much less I want to go to work now, after returning to the 10:30-19:00 shift last week.
08:07:05: Must check my employer's website for staff positions. In training we were told it's easy to switch over.
08:17:03: I was going to wait six months before posting for an office job, since they accomodated my schedule change request for school, but now ...
08:19:34: Remember I complained #newtwitter doesn't keep a running character count for me? I can update it by clicking outside the textbox.
23:24:49: #AKOTAS updated: mechanical maintenance in space. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2357.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
23:42:10: I suppose it happens to everyone once: I just put my flashdrive through the wash.

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From Twitter 10-13-2010

05:59:21: If I could have one thing I wanted right now, it wouldn't be MSPaint Vista not going to default directory all the time. But six things...
12:18:38: I just assisted a customer in his 50s whose first name is Bilbo. And he's district attourney of a city in the South.
20:02:18: Fascinating RT @Omorka @AKOTAS Bilbo is the last name of what used to be a very politically prominent family in MS. Stone-cold racists, too.
20:06:20: #AKOTAS updated: but don't call me... http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2338.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
21:45:21: Playing in my spreadsheet in hopes of inspiring a 3faces gag
21:53:30: I wrote a 3faces gag earlier today that's kinda weak, but I'll use it if I have to.
22:06:54: Ehhh just goin with the weak gag
22:13:03: Hero of Three Faces updated: sibling rivalry. http://tinyurl.com/3f4c3s/aatl.htm #3faces #fanfiction #akotas

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From Twitter 10-11-2010

09:21:58: The left channel (not the speaker; it's same on headphones) on my laptop is intermittent. Now the right one's gone out.
09:23:32: The laptop's almost two years old. Anyone know about what Geek Squad would charge for audiochannel service?
12:15:33: Got the word this morning. Being moved to a later shift at the end of the month.
16:19:27: @ursulav My marriage is two years past drinking age, yesterday.
17:43:51: The History Channel has taken to blurring out nudity in museum dioramas.

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From Twitter 10-08-2010

04:59:43: Because I've no complaints. RT @truthmakr Why? The latest version is available for free download.
10:15:04: They're changing open time later at work, want us going to later shifts. I still said I'm in school evenings cuz I hope I'll be, but ...
10:17:27: My cursor and character-count #newtwitter issues do seem to be home Firefox issues. Everything's fine on IE at the work station.
10:18:22: Uh oh. IE isn't showing the logoff link!
11:53:18: @rustyshock I know where the logoff button is. On this browser the dropdown goes behind main application div, 'steada in front.
11:54:56: @ rustyshock I hadn't clicked "remember me" so I was able to log off by closing all IE windows.
11:55:45: @rustyshock This is at work so I don't get to upgrade.
11:58:08: It doesn't bother me the production values on #DoctorWho aren't as cheesy any more but, sometimes, it does that the episode titles aren't.
12:00:20: @rustyshock This station is just for employees on breaks. Won't be upgraded any time soon, is my guess.
12:00:49: @rustyshock But is #oldtwitter going to go away?
14:30:29: @rustyshock The problem is, #newtwitter does have some features I could get used to ...
21:41:00: #AKOTAS updated: anachronisms are fun. http://tinyurl.com/akotas/2333.htm #webcomics #kingarthur
22:30:23: There must be climate change. For the last few months I've had trouble keeping my ears popped.
22:51:54: I had a good burger today. #sorkinoncolbert

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