Top 10 Signs You Work in a Call Center

February 15, 2010 by Bob Furniss
Filed under: Management, People 

Letterman-style list for your next manager meeting (although the last one may be a little

10.  You supply your spouse with a daily quality performance report and analysis.
9.  You end your date with the question, “is there anything else I can do for you?”
8.  After a romantic evening with your spouse, you send him or her a satisfaction survey.
7.  Your kid’s names are acronyms.
6.  You find yourself calculating the average talk time after an argument with your spouse.
5.  When you watch your son play soccer you keep yelling that the other team is out of adherence.
4.  You keep losing bets by insisting that “Shook Me All Night Long” was sung by the mega-rock group “ACD”
3.  At Halloween, you answer the door and say: Press one for Snickers, Two for Butterfinger, Three for Almond Joy, Four for Kit-Kat, or press 0 to opt out for an apple.
2.  When choosing a line at the grocery store, you run a quick intra-day forecast.
1.  Your dates always seem to go downhill because you keep bringing that your last date said you did not meet service level.

Thanks to Scott Thomas for co-authoring this. He is one of a kind!

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