Sunday, June 1, 2008

Dirty Laundry

A friend gave me the link to gossipgurl's blog, which contained inside "news" on the particular call center he was working at. Seems this gossipgurl started the blog, wanting to put out some "dirty laundry", as she or he described it. What's intriguing about this blog is how the characters were named and accdg to my source, you'd easily figure out who they were if you worked at that call center. I've read a lot of comments about this call center in some forums (such as PEX, callcenterdirectory.net). It was even mentioned in one of callcenterblogger's choices for the "worst call center". Of course this was based on what he read in different forums as well.

Other call centers have their own forums wherein a lot of negative comments were written as well and I thought this particular company was just one of those. Going over the comments in the forums, you'd find the usual pay discrepancies, politics in the workplace..the usual gripe from former or active employees who'd rather post in forums and hide behind aliases or nicknames.

Gossipgurl caught my attention because this was different. Well, it was still talking about the usual politics that would normally happen in any workplace but...geez...I can't describe it. I guess it's how the posts were written or how the characters were disguised. Even my friend's fascinated with it and spent a full 2 hours trying to figure out the characters in the entries and who gossipgurl is. Or maybe it's because as you read through the entries, you get the impression that gossipgurl is/was directly affected by what happened or is close to that person. Seems that particular department really is a mess nowadays (so says my friend)

Since coming back from a long hiatus, I found myself constantly checking the blog to see if there are any updates. Unfortunately, it seems everything is quiet at
gossipgurl's side as the last post made was on May 21. I wonder what's next......

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