So I have a job interview today...

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RESmonkey

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I saw a craigslist posting about telemarketing job paying $10-$20 hr, and they needed to fill positions asap. I dropped them an email, they told me to call them at a number with an area code same as mine. When I asked what company this is, they said "Artisan" something, located near the Woodfield mall (a popular mall here), and they didn't have a website.

Googling them didn't show anything. I have an interview today at 3:30. When I had called them, there was a lady who answered the phones, and the manager dude said when I come, to either ask for Gary or John.

Anything suspicious here?
 
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sswingle

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I would be concerned about wanting a telemarketing job. You cant find anything better?
 
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isekii

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Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
I would be concerned about wanting a telemarketing job. You cant find anything better?
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If he's a swindler it's the perfect job :)
 
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ric1287

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it is probably just a creepy little office with a bunch of tables and phones.

The telemarketing gig I worked at (for 4 hours before quitting) was like that.
 
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CountZero

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Originally posted by: ric1287
it is probably just a creepy little office with a bunch of tables and phones.

The telemarketing gig I worked at (for 4 hours before quitting) was like that.
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Yeah, there was one of those that opened where a used cd store used to be. They'd pay anyone that walked in off the street or so the sign said and I did occasionally see homeless inside.

-Chris
 
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RaistlinZ

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Telemarketers have to be the most hated profession out there, even more than lawyers and car salesmen. I think I would rather do janitorial work for the same money than subject myself to that kind of torture. At leaset then I could be alone with my own thoughts and do my own thing without someone watching over me.
 
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cherrytwist

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If a telemarketer reaches me, I tell them "no, he's busy at the moment. I think he's taking a dump."

Then I hang up.
 
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hanoverphist

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Originally posted by: cherrytwist
If a telemarketer reaches me, I tell them "no, he's busy at the moment. I think he's taking a dump."

Then I hang up.
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i like the new systems they seemto all be using now... it dials the number and connects you to them when you answer, but there is a delay before they get the call. when i notice that pause, i say hello? then goodbye! and hang up. if they cant talk to me right then, they cant talk to me.


i despise telemarketers. one of my good friends wrote programs for a huge telemarketing company here in arizona, i kept trying to get him to sabotage it to die at a future point automatically. he wouldnt do it.
 
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Injury

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Any Craigslist listing with the title "AWESOME JOB" is probably anything but that.




It also probably requires you to be touched in your bathing suit area.
 
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RichardE

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I've always had a rule in life that any job that advertises in all caps with money in the title is not somewhere I probably want to work. It has served me well so far.
 
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nageov3t

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Originally posted by: RESmonkey
:0 So why do people quit so fast?
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I had a friend who worked as a telemarketer for a couple months... she quit because the supervisor was constantly on her ass about not selling enough, despite that she got instantly hung up on on every single call.
 
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