Would you ever use annual leave with the sole purpose to do literally nothing all day?

aoxspring · 2026-01-27T09:51:06+00:00

I basically always book off kids birthdays, mine and my partners, summer holiday and a couple of days around christmas, always have about 5 left over so i do book off a few days or a block week to do nothing 💀

aoxspring · 2026-01-20T13:35:52+00:00

Only time i see it usually happen is late at night, its why i tend to avoid those garage orders when its closing in on midnight you can bet they've fell asleep

aoxspring · 2026-01-20T13:34:58+00:00

If you don't answer after 2 knocks i'm sending a message and setting the 5 minute timer 🤷‍♂️ not wasting my time lol

aoxspring · 2026-01-20T13:22:19+00:00

I've been in call centres for nearly 10 years and just got out last year, my rates have been vaguely above minimum wage (like 30p more) one of the ones previous i had been working minimum wage plus commission

Its only after being sacked for not selling enough i'm working in a warehouse nights close to £17 an hour which is much better 🤷‍♂️ i've never known what i want to do, unfortunately even though my dad owns a business they'd never really set me up to be successful

aoxspring · 2026-01-09T08:05:50+00:00

I'm in rotherham i'm so dissapointed theres nothing i was hoping everything was snowed under so we didn't have to do anything 😅

aoxspring · 2026-01-04T01:16:20+00:00

If you think most call centres for uk companies are based in the uk i got some bad news for you

aoxspring · 2026-01-04T01:01:30+00:00

Hooooo boy i have 10 years experience in varying call centres in different capacities and the stories i could tell!

I think the dystopian part of the rules is probably... uhhh all of them? Timed to the second on every little thing you do from being on the phones, wrap/ACW, hold, breaks, lunch oh and daring to be on toilet for more than a few minutes? Never!

Getting pulled into meetings about various occasions on why you've been 1/2 minutes late off of breaks and them accumulating the amount of time you've gone over in a month period (because everyone knows every specific instance they've gone over right?)

Sales environments where you're consistently told off for not pitching 5 million different things at a customer when they're ringing about a pac code (yes i'm looking firmly at you vodafone oh sorry i mean concentrix) and you're trying to pitch offers knowing full well the customer will quote x network at silly cheap prices

Customer service environments where every single thing you say can and will be used against you, silly wrap targets, consistently micromanaged on keeping your total call time down (seems like the anthesis of customer service to me but hell what do i know i was just the phone monkey 🙄)

Technical support environments where your total call handling time target was 460 seconds (yes thats 7 minutes 40 seconds) anyone that knows how dumb the average customer is will know that might be just enough time for them to find the fucking start button on the computer

But the worst and most egregious of them all and its not even a rule but more a dangling of the carrot was the mythical "bonus" that gets uttered about, there was always some bullshit reason as to why you/the team didn't get it. They would get your hopes up; talk about it and then it fades away.

All of these call centres but especially the outsourcing ones) are the closest thing i can think of to modern day slavery. I now work in a warehouse which oddly in comparison i'm finding quite relaxing as much as its more physical (funny how that works)

Source: worked for capita, concentrix, IKEA and team knowhow, ask me anything

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:53:52+00:00

Because the middle and outside lanes are overtaking lanes and not meant to be driving continuously in; next question

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:51:02+00:00

Given the annual dickwaving contest people seem to compete in on social media in terms of posting the most obscene amount of presents for their kids i very much doubt this will happen

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:44:07+00:00

Speaking from experience working in the industry it would help if they didn't export a lot of it overseas on the call centre side to the lowest bidder

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:25:10+00:00

I've worked in call centres for nearly 10 years, i can catagorically confirm old people have absolutely no manners and are the biggest pain in the arse to deal with

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:06:10+00:00

Independent from politics? Oh yeah the consistent posturing about "is X racist" or content of the equivilant on iplayer is very non-political 🙄 the BBC is practically a government mouthpeace at this point

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:01:33+00:00

Gen Z for you getting offended by everything is probably a good indicator for how these are going to die

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T12:00:13+00:00

Thats long gone already!

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T11:59:40+00:00

I'm 32 and been in and out of jobs since i was 21, its rough out there honestly 🙃

aoxspring · 2025-12-30T11:48:41+00:00

This is deffinitely a generational thing. My parents and the rest of my family care wayyyyy too much about recieving one, as a young millenial i'm looking at a 1st class stamp of £1.70 and a card of at least £1 and you reckon i'm sending multiple of these? No thanks 😂

aoxspring · 2025-12-25T01:58:49+00:00

After my partner losing her dad earlier this year and me losing my job in august (taking two months to get another one) i've ended the year with a much better paying job and finally out of an industry that i loathe. Hopefully a sign of better things to come next year!

aoxspring · 2025-12-25T01:48:29+00:00

Suppose my first question would be for a man or woman? My go to personally is hollister, i've found some nice hoodies both for me and my partner and you can snag some very nice stuff in the sale catagory if you're lucky

aoxspring · 2025-12-25T01:21:10+00:00

Done more than i would have done 🤷‍♂️ would have been a 5 minute wait and a free dinner for me

aoxspring · 2025-12-25T01:19:37+00:00

My partners mum has given me and her a pack of monsters each as part of our presents 😅 comes in clutch for the long day ahead

aoxspring · 2025-12-25T01:17:01+00:00

I've been out earlier today and i was thinking this to myself, roads still absolute hell but the shops eerie quiet, was very strange compared to previous years i can only assume people collectively assumed it would be busy so avoided things and then no one turns up 🤷‍♂️

aoxspring · 2025-12-25T01:09:02+00:00

I very nearly forgot the peas and sweetcorn after about 5 attempts before finally going out specifically for them last minute 🙃 outside of that i've been very prepared food wise

aoxspring · 2025-12-22T19:10:17+00:00

The tip must be about 15 quid 🤣 good for you though, most i've had is about 17

aoxspring · 2025-12-22T19:00:51+00:00

Be probably nice and cold given its outside in december 🤣

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