Stories tagged “call center”

  • Sell Out

    The lowest common denominator in call center life is desperation. If these people could do anything else, they would. Dawn was a classic example. She’d been working in call centers so long that she thought it was normal. She’d never once as...

  • Dawn Sat Alone

    Dawn sat alone at her new cubicle, wondering what the hell had just happened. She came to work and sat at her cubicle just like any other day. Unlike any other day, her supervisor Valerie walked over looking like she’d just wrestled with the reap...

  • The Man Behind The Bowling Ball

    “Do you think he bought it?” Cory asked, rubbing his bald head. “Of course Joe bought it,” Skyler said. If Cory was a bowling ball, Skyler was a Nerf mini-football, who believed the call center was a game of Survivor. “I s...

  • Looks Like We're Neighbors Now

    Joe felt sort of guilty. And was very concerned about Dawn. Until the moment Julie sat down next to him. Could this really be his luck? He put his customer on hold. And watched as Julie ran her fingers through her blond hair. “Hey,” Julie s...

  • Like A Tractor Beam

    Joe unplugged his headset and walked outside to smoke a cigarette. Once he was outside of Julie’s spell, he remembered that he hadn’t seen Dawn all day. He took a drag of his cigarette and pulled out his i-phone. The call went straight to v...