My day job is becoming more and more difficult to handle.
Everyone here seems to have given up hope that the company will last another year…
People are getting laid off every week and everyone is walking around whispering conspiracy theories about what they think that they heard the head honchos talk about.
It’s not in my nature to give up though.
I always trudge on…Most times much longer then I should.
I am an Account Specialist for a packaging company that I will be referring to as The Box.
All that Account Specialist means is that I’m a collection agent. I do other things…but my main job function is to call up all of the customers that owe us money and attempt to collect the debt.
All day long I hear the sob stories of small business owners across the country that are unable to pay their debt to us…
The irony is that I began my own personal bankruptcy proceedings last September…and provided that there are no snags, I will be absolved of my debt on February 17th.
I stopped using my credit cards when I was 26…
It was two years after that…throwing minimum payments at my cards month after month, before my father finally sat me down and explained to me that filing for bankruptcy is a tool.
It doesn’t mean that I’m a bad person…
It means that I made mistakes…and in order to correct my error, I have to somehow obtain a clean slate…
I feel a bit victimized by the credit card companies…
By the time I was 20, I all ready had 11 credit cards…I never maxed a single card out…but that was mostly because I had so many cards that I was able to juggle things around.
So all day long, I badger people to give me their credit card numbers and send in checks for payment…and a lot of the people are nasty to me.
And I am nasty to a lot of people…
But it’s my job to collect money…so that’s what I try to do.
It bothers me at night though…a lot…when I recount the days conversations in my head before I go to sleep.
I think it’s all part of the penance in order to be absolved of the debt.
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ReplyDeleteHuh? You mean you don't really work in a porn shop? Maybe you should. Maybe you would find it easier to be nice to your customers, and your customers would likewise find it easier to be nice back to you. Then again, how long could a porn shop survive a severe recession? And how nice are porn shop customers anyway? I have only been in one of them, but my image is of a lot of middle-aged men who avoid meeting your eyes and who are dressed in knee length coats with their hats pulled low.
P.S. Ayn Rand...so are you an objectivist? I wonder how she would have felt about bankruptcy. Since the only government she seemed to favor was the military and the police, I think she might have been against it.
ReplyDeleteThe porn shop is my night job.
ReplyDeleteand the porn business is also not doing so hot. You have to take into consideration first of all that internet porn is easily accessible and most of the time free...I mean, before I worked here, I never spent that much money on movies...I think I only owned two...Now my library is vast because I've learned to respect the art of the actual film...instead of the instant gratification of the 3 minute free clip...
also realize that less and less people are even into pornography at all because of all of the social networking sites that exist now...kids sit on studybuddy facebook and myspizzle rather then search for naked people...
People aren't really getting their fix from Dvd's and magazines really...Our customer base doesn't expand each year with people turning 18...it decreases because the people that are actually into the movies die. and that's just a sad fact.
Our customer's are fantastic...don't get me wrong...but the adult industry, with the old invention of free internet porn has been suffering just as much as the music industry did with the evolution of Napster...
I'll blog about the store at a later time, there are plenty of stories to tell...
For some reason, your response wasn't mailed to me, so I'm glad I happened by again.
ReplyDeleteAfter I asked if you were an objectivist, I saw the galtsharlot in your address. I used to be into Ayn Rand bigtime, not because I knew enough about government or economics to fairly evaluate her, but because of the attractiveness of her characters, especially Roark. We the Living was another good book by her. I also read all of her essays that I could find. For some reason, the little Brookhaven, MIssissippi, library had a lot of her works.
Thanks for the info about porn shops.
You're getting kinda behind on your posting here, aren't you?
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