Phalanx
02-15-2007, 07:09 AM
...A feild I worked in for a little while...
Not really something that ever gets you anywhere beyond developing a few office skills, a high tolerance for abuse, and a "pleasant/proffesional phone manner", I guess maybe helps the negotiation skills a tad, but IMO other than that, it'll do fuck all for you in anything other than gaining employment of the same sort.
Yknow...I got to a point that I was so damn sick of these jobs a few years back, that in my last job, I was just about faking every "survey", while sitting around doing nothing, or throwing stuff at my friends...never got caught out, and ended up so bored of it all that I just walked out one day, and that was it.
Anyhow, I met one of my former "colleagues" for the first time in a while the other day, and I got to thinking about how ridiculously stupid the job could be.
Got to thinking about some of the weird/fucked up questions I had to ask on occasion for certain surveys.
On a two-part product trial job for toilet paper...on the initial survey we had to ask "When you've been wiping with toilet paper, has your finger ever poked through?"
Another one was for viagara, or well, just before it came out anyhow...we had to speak to relatively elderly people, not just the guys, but if they weren't around, their wives...I had to ask many a 50+ woman how often they have sex and "do you think your partner suffers from erectile dysfunction?"
The last one I can remember was asking about people who grow plants, flowers, shit like that...I think it was for a large gardening products client.
One of the lines of questions was "Do birds or butterflies visit your garden area on a regular basis?"..."Do you do anything to encourage birds?" "Do you do anything to encourage butterflies" (heeeeere butterfly?), then asked them what type of birds they had visit their garden, and what it was they liked about the birds, and butterflies...
It was so stupid that every time I did this one, I started laughing.
So, those are all that comes immediately to mind, but there was plenty more...so, thought I'd write some about it, and then see if anyone that's actually responded to any of these things has had strange or funny questions or experiences while doing so?
Anyone?
Not really something that ever gets you anywhere beyond developing a few office skills, a high tolerance for abuse, and a "pleasant/proffesional phone manner", I guess maybe helps the negotiation skills a tad, but IMO other than that, it'll do fuck all for you in anything other than gaining employment of the same sort.
Yknow...I got to a point that I was so damn sick of these jobs a few years back, that in my last job, I was just about faking every "survey", while sitting around doing nothing, or throwing stuff at my friends...never got caught out, and ended up so bored of it all that I just walked out one day, and that was it.
Anyhow, I met one of my former "colleagues" for the first time in a while the other day, and I got to thinking about how ridiculously stupid the job could be.
Got to thinking about some of the weird/fucked up questions I had to ask on occasion for certain surveys.
On a two-part product trial job for toilet paper...on the initial survey we had to ask "When you've been wiping with toilet paper, has your finger ever poked through?"
Another one was for viagara, or well, just before it came out anyhow...we had to speak to relatively elderly people, not just the guys, but if they weren't around, their wives...I had to ask many a 50+ woman how often they have sex and "do you think your partner suffers from erectile dysfunction?"
The last one I can remember was asking about people who grow plants, flowers, shit like that...I think it was for a large gardening products client.
One of the lines of questions was "Do birds or butterflies visit your garden area on a regular basis?"..."Do you do anything to encourage birds?" "Do you do anything to encourage butterflies" (heeeeere butterfly?), then asked them what type of birds they had visit their garden, and what it was they liked about the birds, and butterflies...
It was so stupid that every time I did this one, I started laughing.
So, those are all that comes immediately to mind, but there was plenty more...so, thought I'd write some about it, and then see if anyone that's actually responded to any of these things has had strange or funny questions or experiences while doing so?
Anyone?