For a week in high school I worked in a call center as a telemarketer. Selling magazines. My best friend got suckered into it and, not knowing better, dragged me into it.
None of us got paid. They’d set up a call center in an office block, do like 4 hours of training, then make people cold call all day for two or three weeks. Then they’d shut down overnight, pull all the equipment, and move.
Evil operations. But it did give me a chance to see first hand (at like 15) that most people in those jobs were being exploited.
For a week in high school I worked in a call center as a telemarketer. Selling magazines. My best friend got suckered into it and, not knowing better, dragged me into it.
None of us got paid. They’d set up a call center in an office block, do like 4 hours of training, then make people cold call all day for two or three weeks. Then they’d shut down overnight, pull all the equipment, and move.
Evil operations. But it did give me a chance to see first hand (at like 15) that most people in those jobs were being exploited.