I used to work as an "admissions counselor" for an online university. They paid us $18 an hour to cold-call potential recruits. Every morning, our team/pep-rally leader would talk about how to use various psychological tricks to convince the target to go to school. We were specifically instructed to find "the pain" in the target's life - a failure of some sort - and present our university as a kind of personal empowerment. We would end each meeting, and I shit you not, by chanting our team's slogan: "show us the pain, bring in the rain!" I think I lasted a couple of weeks before I decided that I didn't care how badly I needed the money. Fuck those guys.
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I used to work as an "admissions counselor" for an online university. They paid us $18 an hour to cold-call potential recruits. Every morning, our team/pep-rally leader would talk about how to use various psychological tricks to convince the target to go to school. We were specifically instructed to find "the pain" in the target's life - a failure of some sort - and present our university as a kind of personal empowerment. We would end each meeting, and I shit you not, by chanting our team's slogan: "show us the pain, bring in the rain!" I think I lasted a couple of weeks before I decided that I didn't care how badly I needed the money. Fuck those guys.
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