I work in a call center. I've done pretty much any menial low status job you can list. Seriously I've done it all. This one rates pretty fucking low. You might get lucky and go weeks without any horrible calls, but then you're just as likely to have weeks in a row where you clock in and get screamed at over the phone for the entire shift. You may get days with at least a few minutes between calls, but you're much more likely to get weeks on end where you clock in and get less than 5 seconds between calls for the entirety of your shift.

When it's bad, it's really fucking bad. This job is so miserable. Like makes you want to kys bad. I've been doing it for more than 1yr now. The worst thing besides extremely busy days and getting yelled at by wretched people who get off on verbally abusing someone who has to sit there and take it is that they also have EXTREME pressure on sales. We have weekly quotas they punish you for not meeting. I think mostly they use them as a way to keep you permanently in a state of "guilt" or "fault". I don't think the quotas are something you can realisticaly meet consistently.

This gives the company something to constantly lord over you and beat you down with whenever they need.

If they wanna get rid of someone they can at any moment because of "not meeting quotas".

This last few weeks are enough to make me homicidal with the number of psychopaths who are just SCREAMING at me when I'm literally doing everything I can to fucking help them.

I hate this shit I just want to be at home with my cat. I hate how much I have to leave him all alone just for this fucked up job. The thing is you could 100% do this entirely work from home and apparently between 2020 and 2023 it WAS fully remote. CEO actually said in an interview that he just hates the idea of workers being comfy.

The modern world is ruled by hateful entities that are not human despite wearing human skins. They don't want money, they want misery to feed their archon overlords.

>>81891166 (OP)
i dont know your situation so i apoligize for putting this out there but why can't you just quit?

>>81891184
>why can't you just quit?
I will as soon as I find anything else. Job market is shit and nothing else that will hire me would pay even close to this much. The pay is great for the area. It's the only reason to put up with this shit. I keep hoping I get fired to force me to do something else. My break ended like 5 mins ago but I hate it too much to force myself to walk back inside.

>>81891184
I'm in college for a degree. Fell for the computer science meme. I'm about to get kicked out of school because this job leaves me so miserable and depressed I can't even force myself to do school work

>>81891202
>>81891221
hope everything goes well for you, anon
you'll pull through, you always have

>>81891166 (OP)
>when it's bad, it's really fucking bad
This applies to warehouse jobs as well, big time. At its worst you're stacking boxes upon boxes, pallet after pallet, almost slave labor where they work you to the bone, little breaks in between and my god those 5 or 10 minutes go by quick. It can be miserable, the job is miserable, the people are miserable, and the pay is just the shit cherry on top of the crap cake.

>I hate this shit I just want to be at home with my cat
I know this feel.
>CEO actually said in an interview that he just hates the idea of workers being comfy.
amazing how fears are true, it's religious evil.
This is why communism exists and you're probably in the most evil country ever.

Used to work at a UK call centre and everything in Dankula's classic video about them matches my experience

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6It6SnNwsh8

>>81891232
Thank you anon that really means a lot
>>81891256
Yeah physical labor is a whole world of suffering on its own. All the downsides of many other types of job but also destroys your body too. I switched rapidly between all the different low tier jobs searching for the holy grail job that would be actually tolerable. They almost all suck in their own particular way. It's just pick your poison Then your coworkers probably are never anyone you relate to either which makes the whole experience even more alienating unless your interests are sports and cars and being worked like a slave. Warehouse sounds miserable and hot from what I've heard.

The one silver lining is that there actually ARE good jobs out there. There's very particular niche jobs that both pay well enough to survive AND have reasonable demands that won't make you hate your life.

For me, the by far best job I ever had was as a security guard for tv and film. It was amazing. I got to see all sorts of interesting locations, explore buildings and stuff at night, I didn't have to socialize at all or talk to anyone. Being paid to walk around or hang out in empty buildings and fields and even a cemetery once. Sometimes I'd just be on my laptop the entire night or sitting in my car listening to music. It was so peak. They even paid to fly us to different states, paid for hotel room, food, literally just to hangout on the set of various TV shows or movies at night after everyone left.

God I loved that job.

2nd best was doing consumer research studies for one of the big tech companies. I lucked out and literally everyone quit so I had almost full freedom with how to do the job, set up the office, etc. That job was great due to the sheer amount of freedom I had and lots of downtime. Basically just a list of stuff I needed to get done with no one telling me how or when to show up or leave. Sadly thar was only a temporary contract.

>>81891376
The place I work at now is unlike the slave labor jobs. Warehouses don't pay well unless you have experience or some certification or something. At least manual labor like construction and other stuff like that, they get paid good. Warehouses are really only if you have nothing else.
Working security can also be shit if you have to interact with people and guide them around, but if you're on a studio lot, you have the whole place to yourself and get to chill and get paid for it. I worked at a lot where the whole night you had to walk around and scan a few points. Very little interaction with people. The person who worked at the booth to let people in driving up literally got paid to sit down all night and watch movies. I was able to work in that booth a few times, and it was great.

>>81891166 (OP)
Having a basic retail job puts you in the upper 25% of gen Z, and that's not an exaggeration

>>81891397
Yep. Security guard is the pinnacle of robot jobs. I would've never left but ended up getting accepted for this call center crap paying more than double my salary and couldn't justify not taking it. I kind of wish I never got hired and then I could've still been blissfully unaware and working security still.
>>81891432
Retail equals hell.

>>81891491
>Retail equals hell.
I'm sure it does now. When I was 15 I did my "work experience" in a supermarket and it was actually really fun, I have some unironic fond memories of it. That was in 2005 though and I was still in school.