I'm looking for remote work that does not include basically working for a call center. I have 9 years of customer service experience and I'm pretty tech savvy and super polite in emails and other communications. I refuse to take a position that is strictly just taking or making phone calls since I don't want to run the risk of not getting paid because of being sick and losing my voice. I work at a call center now and I'm struggling because I was forced to stay home for 4 days without pay because I caught some bug that was going around and lost my voice. YET, I'm running into dead ends and walls.
1.) Jobs popping up as “remote” but then halfway through the hiring process they suddenly require you to relocate halfway across the globe. Or my other favorite, in tiny legalese at the very bottom “currently remote with return to office located at (super far away city), please have arrangements to relocate within traveling distance within the next 4 months.”
2.) Those stupid fucking “one way interviews.” Wtf do I look like, putting on a whole song and dance show, when I know they'll most likely choose someone else. I'm not your monkey, nor am I free entertainment. I'm also not about to run the risk of some recruiter deciding to hire based on looks. Do YOUR job as a recruiter and just interview me like a human.
3.) “Customer Service Representative” postings that want 10+ years of experience with some obscure software, and then offer $10/hr. Gtfo.
4.) Jobs saying that the rate of pay is “between $9 – $25” per hour. You're not fooling anyone. We KNOW that what this really means is that the position is $9/hr but you want to lure me in with the false hope of making more. Fellow job searchers, do NOT settle for less than what you think you're worth.
5.) Remote jobs demanding you have a car and basically spend all day driving around and bothering clients. That's NOT remote work at all. Remote would be if I could counsel or advise clients via Teams or Zoom. I thought the whole point of remote work was to avoid person to person contact to avoid contracting illnesses.
6.) Remote jobs that are not remote. Like they straight up have “remote” in the title just to get more hits, but the job posting is not remote at all whatsoever.
7.) Weird, cringe shit in the job posting. I'm not a “rockstar”, I'm NOT going to respond to your emails with a 90s R&B song title, I don't care if you allow “wacky Fridays” where I can wear jeans and get pizza, and I'm just not going to take you seriously as a company if you have “ayo, where my hard working boss babies at?!?!” I'm a regular human being, coming to you in my most professional demeanor, hoping to offer my services in exchange for a living wage. Jfc…
8.) The “assessments.” If I wanted to be assessed, I'd seek a professional therapist/psychiatrist. A lot of these are super repetitive and stupid too. “On a scale of 1-10 how much do you agree with the following?” And then the answers are real off the wall wild shit like “I like power and authority”, “I hate people”, “I am willing to throw others under the bus to save myself”, “the sky is blue”, “dogs are man's best friend”, “I like breaking rules”, “I'm lazy”, “I'd kill an innocent bystander if it meant I will survive.” Wtf do these even achieve? What a waste of time and resources ffs.
9.) Remote work BUT you have to travel all the way to some obscure town to “pick up equipment.”
Just fuck man. Fuck it all.