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Month: February 2009

I Simply Can’t Understand …

I Simply Can’t Understand …

Do you remember when you were in primary school and your English teacher always wrote the first few words of a sentence on the blackboard (Yes… no white boards during my dinosaur era. I simply loved eating chalk dust. =p) and expected you to churn up a few pages of writing from that? Well, that’s simply what I’m doing.

I simply cannot understand why people would spend $7 per hour to employ a telemarketeer to do *cold calling. And YET instead of letting the telemarketeer call in peace, engage them in chit chat. Hmm… It doesn’t sound like a very good business plan to me because, aren’t they paying the telemarketeer to chit chat with them?! Hey! I can even do it for free!! Good money eh? So the telemarketeer called 1 person, got very kindly rejected by that person, turned to the “employer” and said,”how arh? got rejected.” Then the “employer” indulged in 30 mins of chit chat, out of which only 5 mins was dedicated to the original problem.

I simply cannot understand why people would pay $7 per hour for someone to chit chat with them. AND it’s not even dirty talk.

*cold calling refers to the activity of obtaining a list of contacts (usually made up of strangers), picking up the phone and calling them to interest in a service or product which one is marketing. If you need a better definition, there’s always Google out there. If you don’t know how to Google, please consult a kindergarten going child.

A New Year, A New Beginning

A New Year, A New Beginning

I know I must said this like a million times – I’m restarting my BLOG! This time I’m really serious. To prove my sincerity, I’m going to write at least once a week! That’s my quota for writing.

At least this is a place to let off steam at and it entertains my friends, so why not? Without an outlet to vent my frustration, people around are finding themselves at the end of my tongue lashing… Sigh… My friends are dwindling. So, to save our sanity and relationships, here goes…