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Bisty Q.
Jul 22, 2008
Such an arrangement is illegal in the US under the FLSA.

What the more legitimate companies do is pay you minimum wage until the completion of training, optionally offering a 'floor bonus' of the difference between your 'real salary' and minimum wage once you complete training.

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Bisty Q.
Jul 22, 2008
My call center pet peeve are ones that were obviously designed by the same sadists that do scheduling for call center operators, where you can picture the neckbeard who wrote the phone tree going all :smug: while he disables 0.

I called a credit card company last week, "listened carefully because our options have changed", no option was remotely relevant to what I was calling about, hit 0, and it hung up on me with "0 is not a valid option. Goodbye."

gently caress you, keeping my account open with you is not a valid option. Who the gently caress does this? It's just designed to make me more furious when I finally DO talk to a real person who can actually help me.

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