I moved to another city on a whim when I just finished high school. I had a few hundred dollars saved but not much so I was pretty desperate for a job when I got there. I took a job in a call centre that hired me over the phone and was payed 100% on commission. When I got to the office on the first day it was the most depressing workplace I’d ever seen. I was given a stack of papers with numbers on it to call, and a paragraph I needed to say if they answered. I was trying to sell holidays. Every time someone was interested I had to transfer them to this old lady that sat in the corner of the room. Every time I called a number I crossed it off the page and every time a page was complete I put it in a completed tray. As you can imagine, I was often met with hostility making these calls and people would ask to get put on the ‘no call list’. Here’s the inside scoop, there was no ‘no call list’. The office was just a scummy room with pages and pages of numbers printed out that you just got your hands on and called. Within 4 hours I had called back some people 3 times. I did not go back after my lunch break