Ugh

Image by misterbisson via FlickrSo I am tired. Today was my training for my first temp job. It was only 4 hours, but I feel a lot more drained than that. The job was answering the phone for Booz Allen Hamilton and using a switchboard to direct callers to the correct person, although it was kinda more complicated, partially because of the way that I was trained ("you can't transfer to these guys, but you can only transfer to these guys, oh and this number should have shown up for this one, and these you have to just tell them the number, and these you can't give out unless they have a name, and...")... It was not very well laid out for temps to just come, sit down, and figure out, even though supposedly they use temps all of the time. Seems like by now they would come up with a system that didn't require all of this previous knowledge for something as lame as this.

Anyway, enough complaining about that. I am just not a great phone person. I know this first job was just to make sure that I can show up on time and dress professionally and take instruction and whatnot, but I just want to go ahead and move on to whatever they have that is not a call center type job. Not my cup of tea. Especially when you are being trained and they are sitting there next to you while you self-consciously answer a telephone, not knowing what the heck this dude on the line wants of you because you've never heard of this company until this week. At least most of the people just wanted to be connected to someone who had a name and who could be looked up on the directory. Anyway, as you can tell, I am pretty excited about continuing this job tomorrow... At least that is the end of my contract with these dudes. I will politely tell the staffing agency that I will hold out for the next non-call agency job they have available.