These days if you don't know what kind of black pen you want a web app is happy to give you all the time in the world to pick right SKU.
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People sometimes felt guilty about it. "No need, ma'am. This is what I'm here for." Now just between you and me, me not being there is good.
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My fully loaded cost was clocked at about $7 a call on average. $40+ if you spent two hours asking me to explain gel pen varieties to you.
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There were some people in the company I could route you to with actual expertise. We had a Paper Guy. He could have been in forensics.
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If you sent in a piece of paper and wanted that paper -- and folks did -- the Paper Guy knew every kind sold in US and many that weren't.
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But most customers didn't get that level of service. Most just wanted pens and paper, ASAP, cheaply. Me being in the equation added $/time.
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There's also a deeper philosophical point here: who in society do we care about so little that we want them to narrate pen options to live?
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Many of my co-workers were not just passing through order entry. That was where they ended up; the highest and best use of their time.
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Our office was cited where it was explicitly because Midwesterners worked hard, had minimal accent, and were cheap. They told us this.
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I kid you not the three job options which I saw ahead of me were supervisor at that gig, going to Japan, or working as a grad student.
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That was my brain operating post-CS degree: no job options locally, dang it, hope they hire engineers in Japan.
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If someone had told me "Bro try California" I would not have assumed I was hireable and wouldn't have felt it less foreign than Japan.
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