Thursday, September 08, 2005

Calls, calls, calls

Please make the calls stop!!!!

It would be one thing if all the calls are different but they are the same kind over and over. I want to make a recording of everything i do and just hit a button to have it talk to the customer so don't have to keep talking about the same thing over and over again.

Then once the calls have stoped....what do i do then???? BOREDOM!!!!

Wednesday, September 07, 2005

just like i thought...

So in my postions i held in the company before was one that had to defend itself every sec because of many many reasons. But what i'm going to point out is really kind of funny.
In the support department i was we were told that we were not giving enough examples or coaching the agents on how to fix what they did wrong. Managers and Directors would degrade the department over and over that basicly the department was worthless because they were not giving the feedback to the managment team nor the agents so that things would get better.

We many time discussed that much of what we send out is never conveyed to anyone or is ignored because that the mindset is that my department didn't know what they were talking about...LOL...and that all information was being passed down and supervisors interacted with their teams and would explain how to get the goal accomplished.

Example:
Lets say call time were high. My old department would originally say that the agent was not controling the call or give something else that was kind of vage. So this section of the grading form was eliminated, gone, don't even look for that anymore.
Then when call times were getting longer and longer the management team wanted to know from my group what specificly they could do to reduce these times. My department would now send information about what agents were spending too much time on or what they might need to improve on. These were made by an individual item, team review, and manager grouping. This again was told that this information was not what they were looking for and that they needed more specifics and that the information was not helping the supervisors because they already do these kind of things....and bla, bla, bla...BULLSHIT!

So now that I am back on the phones and dealing with the crap and getting the other end of what i was suppost to be helping. I found out what was really happening.
And it wasn't what we were being told, and i think the upper management was being told.
So my sup sends out the stats and this is what he wrote in the email -- "CALL TIMES….THIS INCLIDES AFTER CALL! LOWER THEM!!"

Not only is there spelling issues, like i have room to talk but i do use spell checker in email, and all that feedback about how to bring the call times down i just love it. Lower them...that is so clear and percise on what to do...i love how great of a sup i have and i know that others are just as good...which makes me glad that i don't work in that department anymore...not only don't i have to put up with the bullshit but i can now see how right my department was the whole time and that we weren't stupid fucks like everyone thought they were. We were trying to tell the truth and show what was going on to fix it but the rest were looking on how to cover their asses and look good at any cost.

I will bitch about this later more but i'm just so fucking glad that i get to go home in 10 min.

Have a good day all!!!!

and

GET THOSE CALL TIMES DOWN!!!!!!!!!!

Giving a helping hand...

So it has now been a total of 4.5 hours that i have been taking calls. And guess what....YEP...i'm being asked questions on what should be done for toubleshooting by other agents. This is fucked up right here....

Hell i'm just making the shit up as I go and now i have to make up shit for other people to say to the customers. Well at least it isn't me sounding stupid when it is wrong....LOL...

Tuesday, September 06, 2005

Phones...

So it has finally happened. I am taking my own calls. I am so happy I could just spit. LOL

This is so overrated. I should be sitting next to someone sidejacking so that i don't have to do anything but learn and laught at everything. I guess I should feel better because the time will go faster but it doesn't feel right. I'm the kind of person that should just sit around and waddle around when my ass thinks its neccessary. But i guess that isn't going to happen.

Plus I'm on the phone for not even 2 hours and my boss comes over and tells me that we will have to work on my call times and aftercall already. I wasn't even that high in times nor aftercall but he is already telling me we have to work on bonus. I was on the phone for a total of 2 hours and i am already being herassed about this crap. Does it matter if the customer was happy or fixed, not really...i love call centers...the factory work of the new century...

Well at least some of the pills have kicked in and i feel better and not ready to pull my hair out. So that is good i guess, but if i have to take a pill just to work here i think that i really need to move on...

When talking to most people that work here are on some kind of pill or another to make the day flow. Makes me wonder how great this world has become that 90% of people have to have pills just to make a living. I hate that thought and now i'm part of that...it kind of makes me sick.