Guys, I need some encouragement

[devilfish]

Hey guys. It's Brian. I need help. Right now I am just fed up. I can't take anymore and I am so frustrated I don't know what to do.

As some of you may or may not know, I currently work as a debt collector, and lately my job has sucked. See, we have a certain amount of money we need to collect every month. Every month I have met or exceeded my target. Well last month, despite working my tail off and calling hundreds of phones a day I only made 17% of my target (you need 80% to stay out of trouble). So I'm in a verbal warning, today I find out that because I forgot to say a certain legal phrase, I got in big trouble so I'm in a WRITTEN warning for that. And it's the 10th, and as yet, I haven't collected a dime!

And honestly, that's not all I'm depressed about. I am getting sick of being the "weirdo" who loves weird stuff. I'm single, and I can't find a woman, hell I can barely find friends. I'm just sick of being that guy who watches British tv or Game Shows or wrestling who doesn't appreciate the subtle charms of "jersey shore" or endless reality garbage. I mean, you find me an American woman who knows who Cliff Richard, Noel Edmonds or Frank Skinner and I'll shake your hand. He'll I can't even get into modern Music. I love Ronnie Milsap and Elvis and everyone my age is hooked on Lady Gaga and Katy Perry, what chance do I have?

I'm just sick and tired of life coming up behind me and pimp-slapping me as soon as I get a little confidence and self esteem. I just wish I could be happy. I just...tired

Thanks for letting me vent

Brian~

[King Ghidorah]

First off take a deep breath, as far as your work goes, follow your call script and your call flow. I imagine you have the tools to do both of these, I find whenever my representatives are not meeting their targets, it's because they are not following their call flow. These things are put in place for a reason.

As for your weirdo situation, you sound like a hater, stop hating and get money.

["Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay]

Let me give you some re-assurance - if you leave that job on your own terms and go somewhere else, then your resume will be f***ing amazing.

I worked for six months in a lousy home insurance call centre where people would call up to report their boiler being broken or a leak in their house and I'd dispatch engineers. Then a week later they'd call me again because the engineer hadn't shown up or had said he needed a part and then not told us that the boiler was too f***ed to repair.

The pay sucked, the hours sucked, the management didn't give a shit about you, and you couldn't excel - only succeed.

I stayed there for six months, which was my full contract plus an additional month.

Since then, my employability has skyrocketed. Any local employer in your area will KNOW that the job you are doing right now SUCKS ASS. If you were not only willing to stay in that job, but consistently meeting your targets from the word go, then they will love you even more.

This makes you employable. You are durable. You follow procedures. You hit targets. You do the shit no-one else wants to do, and you do it with a f***ing smile on your face.

Find another job, as soon as possible. Almost any job will suck less than debt collection. And handily don't mention your target missing for the last couple of months. Start interviewing, bro.

[Deleted]

Modern culture exceeds far beyond the Jersey Shore and Lady Gaga. Far, far beyond.

Aside from that. Youse gotta try to meet new people? Meeting people in college/high school, pft come on, that's nothin'. In da real world you gotta go out of your way to meet people and make friends. Take classes you want to take, volunteer...whatever, stuff like that. You'll meet people with similar interests and then ping-pang-pow!: friends and maybe a girlfriend and then slip'er the ol stromboli, ya'know what I'm sayin?

Do your own thing ya jamoke elsewise ya done.

As far as the job thing goes, I mean, if you wanna the hookups with working collections, my boy Vinny over here, he can hook you up and get you PAID. Y'know, after my 45% referal fee of course.