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I'm in my second year of college studying to become a stool-sample analyzer, but after reading the description of the job in this article, it certainly doesn't sound as exciting and glamorous as my high-school guidance counselor made it out to be...
Consider the people who will probably sign up for the list, because they have a hard time saying 'no' to people on the phone. This is where telemarketers make their money--by wearing down people who don't really want to buy their junk, but feel bad about saying no.
Also, consider the elderly. My grandmother gets confused easily by telemarketing calls and is likely to sign up and pay for something she thinks they're telling her that shed *needs*. By registering her number on the list, I am saving her the time and loss of her money.
And you need the newest version that just came out yesterday.
It's been out longer than that - I've had it for nearly a month now. A few weeks back, a certain percentage of the MSN 5.x messenger users got alerts allowing them to download 6.0 before it was publicly available.
Tell me about it. I took my second C++ programming class this semester, and there was one female student who was probably almost 40. The topic of the month was singly linked lists. We traversed them, we inserted nodes, we deleted nodes, we printed nodes. We linked 'em singly, we linked 'em doubly. We made 'em go right, left, up, and downwards. We did every permutation and combination that I haven't already included, and just as the professor was using SLLs to segue into binary search trees, the aforementioned student raises her hand and says, quote,
"Now, what's a singly linked list?"
I nearly strangled her with my mechanical pencil, which is not an easy feat.
Actually, the *people* (as opposed to the companies) who make the telemarketing calls often *love* when people do this.
I worked as a telemarketer for a fairly large newspaper in southern Wisconsin during high school, and yes, I did love it when people would set the phone down and leave. It gave me more time to do my crossword puzzle, and I didn't even have to try selling a thirteen week subscription at our new low, low rate. Strangely enough, with this nose-to-the-grindstone work ethic, I was "let go" after about a month...
But seriously, telemarketers get paid a base rate per hour ($7.00 in my case), plus an hourly bonus based on how many sales he/she made. For example, if you made three sales in the 4pm-5pm hour, you would make $9.00 in that hour. If you consistently made six sales an hour, you would be making about $12.00 an hour. In my case, I wasn't bothered by people putting me on hold because I was still making over minimum wage, but without the hassle. I imagine people who do this full time wouldn't be pleased when people, such as me, play stupid games to keep them on the phone. I've been on the other side of the games, so I feel it's my duty to return the favor.
I might look forward to laughing at it if they dont change the huge size of the Start Menu...
Noting your sig, I assume that you probably don't primarily use XP, but you too can change the size of your own start menu.
Right click on taskbar, select properties. Choose the "Start Menu" tab, and there you have it: a plethora of options to customize your start menu experience.
If he starts a toaster club, then I'll totally join.
You should've gone to my high school; a classmate of mine started a toaster club. They raised enough money to buy a toaster for the cafeteria, before holding the handle down while making toast and starting a small fire. Here are some links to the "Toaster Club Corner":
I'm quite new to the language, but I'm using it to query MySQL databases and (usually) return the values from every row. What else besides "select * from..." could I be using?
He just pissed off papa Bush and Dubya wants revenge (and oil).
Yeah. He just pissed off "Papa" Bush (which seems to me to be a somewhat insulting title for the former President). He also pissed off thousands of people in Halabja when he KILLED THEM. Not to mention the UN orders to disarm that he has ignored for the last twelve years.
I've heard the view about oil stated so many times, but what do you actually mean? Do you really think that once the war is over President Bush will seize the oil fields to profit personally? Will he turn giddy just thinking of it and roll around naked in Iraqi oil? Highly unlikely, but if he did, what does that mean to you? Did you know that if Iraq stopped withholding their quota of oil, gasoline prices in the United States would run close to a dollar per gallon? I wouldn't mind that in the least. But I doubt that Bush will take over the Iraqi oil operations.
"Your oilfields are *your* greatest asset." - President George W. Bush, to the Iraqi people. This is the man we elected to do the job, and I'm content with actually supporting him. (And don't give me any of that "He didn't receive the majority of the popular vote." crap. Neither did Rutherford B. Hayes or Benjamin Harrison, and I don't see you complaining about that. The system can swing that way. Besides, with less than 50% voter turnout, not one president has ever gotten a majority of the people's support.)
I don't really see the point of this article at all. We all know that Microsoft do internships, we all know that they have a ton of money to throw at it, and we all know that they're damn hard to get into.
Well I for one did not know about any of this, and I'm glad that this story was posted. It gives college freshmen CS majors such as myself something to daydream about during the mandatory writing/speech classes.
Out of curiosity though how much spam does chris.slashdot@opticdesign.com get?
That address gets maybe two or three a week, but those are only the ones that get through my message filters. I wonder if the harvesters know where their addresses are coming from though; the majority of that address's spams are completely unsuited to this crowd: "Learn how to use your computer with this videocassette!" "Don't get caught! Find out how to clear your tracks on the Internet!" and more of the same.
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I, for one, welcome our new MP3-trading overlords...
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I'm in my second year of college studying to become a stool-sample analyzer, but after reading the description of the job in this article, it certainly doesn't sound as exciting and glamorous as my high-school guidance counselor made it out to be...
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Keep up the great work!
I never thought I'd say this, but I've bookmarked a 404 page with the intent of visiting it regularly. Goodness, I'm so lonely...
But seriously, telemarketers get paid a base rate per hour ($7.00 in my case), plus an hourly bonus based on how many sales he/she made. For example, if you made three sales in the 4pm-5pm hour, you would make $9.00 in that hour. If you consistently made six sales an hour, you would be making about $12.00 an hour. In my case, I wasn't bothered by people putting me on hold because I was still making over minimum wage, but without the hassle. I imagine people who do this full time wouldn't be pleased when people, such as me, play stupid games to keep them on the phone. I've been on the other side of the games, so I feel it's my duty to return the favor.
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Yeah. He just pissed off "Papa" Bush (which seems to me to be a somewhat insulting title for the former President). He also pissed off thousands of people in Halabja when he KILLED THEM. Not to mention the UN orders to disarm that he has ignored for the last twelve years.
I've heard the view about oil stated so many times, but what do you actually mean? Do you really think that once the war is over President Bush will seize the oil fields to profit personally? Will he turn giddy just thinking of it and roll around naked in Iraqi oil? Highly unlikely, but if he did, what does that mean to you? Did you know that if Iraq stopped withholding their quota of oil, gasoline prices in the United States would run close to a dollar per gallon? I wouldn't mind that in the least. But I doubt that Bush will take over the Iraqi oil operations.
"Your oilfields are *your* greatest asset." - President George W. Bush, to the Iraqi people. This is the man we elected to do the job, and I'm content with actually supporting him. (And don't give me any of that "He didn't receive the majority of the popular vote." crap. Neither did Rutherford B. Hayes or Benjamin Harrison, and I don't see you complaining about that. The system can swing that way. Besides, with less than 50% voter turnout, not one president has ever gotten a majority of the people's support.)