i moved house and got a job in telesales straight away. there were about 10 of us new starters and 50+ kids working in college-style computer room.
we had a database of numbers of businesses, and we had to phone them and explain that they are paying emergancy rate for their electricity. we then convince them to sign a contract with an energy supplier so theyre paying less. (not really telesales at all)
i found it really difficult and had super bad nerves and stumbled over my words when i was taken aback by anything.
we were given "shit" numbers beause we were new , which means they had already been phoned 5+ times and the people on the line were generally preetty pissy.
i was told by someone who'd been working there a while that if the managers didnt like you or you had bad sales then you'd always be given shitty numbers.
i was also told that if you ever took a monday or tuesday off for sick day, youd be given shit numbers for the rest of the week. so you dont do it again.
we were told on day1 that the basic wage was 160+comission. but on day2 we were told the basic was actually 80. (this is when i realised that this industry/people are full of bullshit. some people who had been working there a while said that they were getting paid literally fuck all some weeks. i didnt like the idea of working 5 days a week for 80-150. you only got 2-3 sets of numbers per day so there was a LOT of variance. you couldnt just call infinite people until you got a deal.
i almost got a deal on day2. the guy told me to come back with a quote, but after sending for a quote i had to ring him back to get his metre serial number. he called me a fucking cunt for that and started shouting so i hung up :3
another guy , i phoned up and said "hi is mr hig hog there?" and the receptionist said "um his name is highog not hig hog". that was pretty lol.
this guy next to me stood up to go take a pee one time, and one of the floor managers started on him. obviously they had some history but it wasnt very pleasant. the guy was like "dude i just need to take a pee ill be back" and the manager was like "ur always taking the piss". then the manager went right up to him and whispered (loudly) in his ear "FUCK YOUUUU". i was like .... and the guy was just shocked into silence. i kinda felt like walking out then.
the managers in general would strut around the office shouting "come on we need more sales get ur act together or you wont be going home" etc. they were insanely cocky jackasses, like something out of a movie. they had greasy slick hair and unbuttoned shirts and were the biggest pricks you can imagine. during lunch break they would play ps3 football and wash their bmws.
in sales, we were told to say that we search the entire market to find the best price for the customer. but really we only search 3 providers: the boss's company, and 2 others. the 2 others were so that if the boss didnt want to provide energy to, ,say, a shitty company that would shut down quickly, he could get comission by forwarding them to someone else.
another lie we told people was how much they are currently paying. if asked, we add "around 40%" to the new price we can offer them, and tell them theyre paying that.
i asked some people how much they got paid in their first few weeks and the consensus was "pretty much nothing". we had 2 weeks on a training wage and i asked people would we get paid that if we quit after 2-3 weeks? they said no, the managers wouldnt pay us (because they dont have to if they dont want to).
so i quit
like 2 days later i found out i had 30 quid in my bank and i was like WTF NO WAI I THOUGHT I HAD 500 NOT 30 DAMN WHY DID I QUIT THAT JOB. but like today i got a phone call saying i got a job as a receptionist so no biggy (although i suuure cut it close).
+10kish June so far.....Vegas Friday for WSOP!!by Joeingram1, June 16
What is up blog world, cool month for me so far. I've been hanging out with this new girl in my life (pics upon request obv) for the last month everyday/all day so that has taken its toll on my playing poker but my results when I have been playing have been pretty stellar!!
Almost +10k if I would not have played that last hand of the session
My actual goal when I started the month was to make 10k because I figured I would not be playing to much with WSOP and this girl always around so I am happy I am almost there. I have actually been having alot of fun though and have done some pretty fun things lately. Have been hanging out with PS SNE BallCup some lately out here in San Diego and we went on a nice little double date with his girl and mine to a steakhouse downtown here, luckily I won CCR Dinner on him! I lost team bowling though (thanks to my awful bowling partner obv) so now Padres tickets are on me. Were going to get tickets to Game 7 of Lakers v Celtics but still deciding if we should bring the women or not, smart choice says leave them at home imo lol
Am planning to go to Vegas on Friday for WSOP 1k on saturday and looking foward to meeting a ton of Small/Mid stakes guys I have never met before and seeing a bunch of ones I have met. Going to try to get pictures with every single TV pro I recognize and all the online guys there to lol, should be alot of fun!! Going to make the 4 hour drive out there in my M3 and hopefully run good and avoid speeding tickets!
Starting to get more and more into the World Cup and have been watching every game as of late just trying to learn how it all works and learn some of the players, I am still noob to betting on it though but if anyone does want to bet on any match, feel free to PM me and I'll take action on most sides just for the sweat! Im debating buying Fifa 10 for Xbox but I think it will take up wayyy to much time so trying to avoid it
Way to go John. These are some of the things Obama's doing that piss me off, areas where he is engaging in massive epic fail. There's more too but no time to go into it now (Stop Loss!!!!)
hey i have installed holdem manager on two different laptops and the one i have at home is on an old laptop and i just got a new laptop. So my question is, do i have to buy another holdem manager for new laptop or is can i just uninstall from old laptop and install on new one with same key code? or how does that work? thanks
This guy is from American idol, and i found a sick remix of it. Enjoy.
Also found a rockrap remix with corn,
As to my poker life, still playing at 100NL to 200NL. Still getting in 100k hands per month. Not having the greatest month so far, but still got 2 weeks to turn things around
1. any tips on multi tabling? i've tried it enough where i know i can't play very well. so i only play 6-8 now instead of 10+ that i used to. like i obviously know, realize and nearly accept that i cannot play 10+ tables for a very good winrate. but to be honest i'm just trying to figure out why. do any of the mass tablers have any tips on this issue?
2. is it worth getting money on absolute poker/cake poker/ultimate bet/party poker? i do enjoy my rake back but is the competition that much softer on the other sites? also how hard is it to get money off on these sites?
3. what is the best way to convert my ftp points into cash? i'm super bummed because i looked it up on lp and apparently back in the day you could have ordered an awesome bathrobe. but it looks like this iconic piece is no longer purchasable. so i'm looking to try and turn ftp points into cash.
4. i haven't perfected my game (not even close) but i do see some sort of plateau in the somewhat near future. how do i combat this? i don't really know what else to do. i'm not sure if watching videos will continue to help or not, so i'm kinda looking into coaching. or more so the prospect of coaching. to those who have received coaching how many sessions did you go through before you felt an effect on your game?
5. not really a question but after playing the ironman freeroll on ftp, i am convinced that freeroll is the way to go in case any of you were wondering.
Which training site should i pic? + going vegasby Balzamon, June 15
I'm pretty lost in the jungle of trainingsites out there and it was far to long ago i studied the game thru videos so i feel like starting again. If you can you give me some tips on which site i should become a member of and specific instructors on that site i should view it would be a great help!
I'm currently playing nl200-400 so i guess midstakes videos is what Im looking for, up to nl1k and such. I want to learn more PLO as well but its NLH thats really important.
Adding a poll but please write in the comment as well for instructors.
On another note i will take a two week trip to Las Vegas and stay at Bally's june 24th - july 8, anyone else gonna stay there or be nereby and maybe wanna eat/play some livepoker (gonna play mostly 1/3 i assume) ? Just PM me =)
Other then that I've noted that omaha has a bad case of zee swings.
I tend to get hung up to much on small, unimportant things. It annoys me and I seem to mess up my days. I feel to much like this guy, except I'm not as good humoured about things.
Been reading "The moon is a harsh mistress" for the fifth time or so. It makes me happy. I'd like to live on the moon sometime, or at least be part of revolution vs repressive government. Both be fun.
Tina Fey is awesome.
Also started playing a ton of poker again. Pretty fun. Don't really play well, but still. Mid stakes still works though. I might start being boring retard grinding most of the time I guess.
So i played 2 sessions. The first one of them i was down like 5 buy ins, managed to rise back up to -2 buy ins. Not the worst !
A bit later in the night I decided to make another session, which turned out to be not the best move i ever made. The hell broke loose! Lost a few buy ins in standard flips. Then got coolered by a 2 outer. Then I actually rose up a few buy ins, and thought it will not be that bad. I was Wrong - Lost KK vs AK. Then spewed a bit and voila ! -9 buy ins. gg
Rachel Maddow blasted BP COO Doug Suttles Monday night for what she found were highly misleading and inaccurate responses during an interview Suttles gave to NBC's Tom Costello.
Maddow had two main issues with the interview: 1. Suttles' explanation for why BP included animals such as walruses --which are typically not found in the region-- in a list of potentially endangered animals in BP's oil spill plan for the Gulf of Mexico; and 2. Suttles' attempt to defend the lack of technological innovation when it came to responding to spills by arguing that there had been "so few big spills" over the past few decades.
"The events haven't driven the technology change that's out there," Suttles told Costello.
Maddow called Suttles' explanation of the walrus mistake "not even a remotely believable answer." In response to his defense of the technology, she went to a board with a map of the United States on it and ran through a long list of oil spills that had occurred in the 2000s alone. She highlighted over a dozen of them, ranging from Massachusetts to Delaware to Louisiana to Alaska to California to Utah, and contradicting Suttles' claim that there have been too few spills to force the technology to catch up.
lingerie, a goal and musicby killThemDonks, June 15
aiming to play 100k at NL25 hands in the next 14 days and play NL50/NL100 for the rest of the summer. I'll update with graphs if anyone is interested in following. Any Party poker micro/low stakes grinders on LP?
Joke. Actually this was my first poker day since like january i think.
Not so bad since i never play tournaments at all.
Sure it's a very low buyin. But that's within my BR !
roadtrip through sweden whole last week, to see kiss in stockholm last saturday, epic concert!
friend of ours who lives there made our makeup, pretty good for some1 that never painted some1s face before / dunno who the fudge kiss is.
epic trip, stayed in 4 different towns, 2 casinos, tons of beer and lots of fun ending with an epic concert, magical. best concert ive been on, including metallica 07 wich also was epic.
for poker it sucks ass, may was not very good, neither is june so far, atleast i made like 700$ playing live during the trip so i got the trip "for free" atleast, that was nice =)
Hello LPers, after a while, I finally successfully cracked the low stakes husng, which makes me happy and wasnt as ez as i thought it was gonna be, and it was quite disturbing to say the least.
I've had a dream where Gamblor came and told me how to play, then it's just an ez grind, and it's easily much more profitable and stable than anything i've played in the past, and i'm enjoying it.
So I decided to quit my job again, with a 2 hour notice, and i'll just grind up those for the rest of the summer at least, and go to school in automn as was planned, and part time those during it.
Edit: oh and doing so, i played a couple 22$ hypers too
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Dinner on him! I lost team bowling though (thanks to my awful bowling partner obv) so now Padres tickets are on me. Were going to get tickets to Game 7 of Lakers v Celtics but still deciding if we should bring the women or not, smart choice says leave them at home imo lol
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