Monday, September 20, 2010 6:57:03 PM
NPR, call centers, jobs, News Simpsons
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Outsourced Call Centers Return, To U.S. Homesby Carolyn Beeler, National Public Radio
August 25, 2010Maureen Quigley-Hogan is the next generation of call center worker. Wearing pink slippers and sitting at her desk in her home office in Virginia, she takes a call from a woman in New Jersey who has a question about her credit card bill.
Quigley-Hogan was unemployed for 10 years because she couldn't hold down a traditional job, she says. She has rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, a disease that causes severe fatigue.
"It was hard to get to a job," Quigley-Hogan says. "The idea of going through a regular schedule of getting up and getting ready for work, I would be exhausted."
She worked in customer service for more than 20 years, so two years ago, she was thrilled to land this job where she can work from home.
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Sunday, September 10, 2006 2:36:28 AM
jobs, interviews, annoying little homilies, tedious tasks
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Well, I won't go so far as to say
that... but--
sometimes things turn out better than you were expecting. So, that thing about streets running red?
uh... never mind...anyway, I got a better offer from the same agency in the wake of the recent debacle. This job
pays more, it's easier to get to in the morning,
annnddd...I only had to go to one interview to get it; I met the people, and they seemed very nice. And, frankly, I think I blew the last interview myself: when he asked if it seemed like something I might be excited to do (I'm paraphrasing, but the question was something along those lines), I think a brief expression of terror flashed across my face, because I
really had to think about my answer for a moment (my thoughts were along the lines of: "No, I'm really
NOT excited at the prospect of doing such tedious, repetitive tasks for so little compensation, but honestly I can
realy use the income..."), before answering, "
uh, yeah..."
I
HATE it when people tell me things like "everything happens for a reason." I hate it even more when sometimes they appear to be
right...Finally, I just put in the order to bring my first two domains,
glassangel (my web/database/graphic design name) and
The Paranoid Gazette, online at host
Laughing Squid, frequent
co-conspirators of
al Qacophany tenticles in San Francisco.
Anyway,
gotta run... I'm late for my Ellipses and Italics Anonymous meeting...
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