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What do you enjoy most about telemarketer work? What do you dislike the most? Is it challenging? Are there many opportunities to learn and advance?

What keeps you at your job?

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Dixon in Cleveland, Ohio

8 months ago

I love annoying people who don't want to be bothered. It's fun to keep calling people who request we stop calling them. It makes good financial sense to the company as well to repeatedly contact people who will not do business with us!

What I dislike is dealing with the legal implications. The authoritarian government keeps trying to push things like a Do Not Call Registry, limiting my business from contacting even more people who don't want to hear my voice.

I've learned/advanced a great deal in regards to honing my abilities to highlight the strengths/advantages of a product while downplaying or not revealing information that might make them hesitate to make a transaction. Selectively presenting information about our products is a far more effective approach than being honest, and that's very rewarding to me.

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Rosha in Pontiac, Michigan

7 months ago

alright im a telemarketor and i can tell anyone who reads this that the previous statement from dixon was actually a person pretending, we take people off our lists when asked, and dixon you should really stop trying to get people to hate us, were just doing out job and supporting our kids, how would you like it if someone came to your work and yell at you all day. Im happy and proud to be a telemarketor because it put my kids through school. Dont be mad at us, be mad at the company we work for cause in the end were all trying to make money to support ourselves. I get it, you dont like being bothered at home, but there are some people that do, some people dont leave their houses and need calls like this, and when people prank us, or yell at us it really dosent affect me that much, cause i just go to the next call. and by the way i gaurantee that not everyone can do this job, it takes patience and you have to be able to ignore jerks

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