# It's called "staffing levels," assholes. Look it up. **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 24, 2008, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967 "2008-02-24T17:23:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/41 "2008-02-25T22:37:28Z")
[QUOTE=Bambi Hassenpfeffer] I read it to mean that the rebate card is tied to a multi-line phone plan (a family plan or other sort of arrangement). If one of the numbers doesn’t work, try the other one on the plan. [/QUOTE] This. > [@Vinyl Turnip](#): > > I thought so too, several rants ago. Now I think our friend (and anyone else who chooses to stay miserable and whine about it) is exactly where he deserves to be. Because you’re an expert not only on the Madison job market but also on my personal state of being and preparedness to look for another job. Fuck you. ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/42 "2008-02-25T22:45:26Z")
[QUOTE=zuma] I’m not even sure exactly what a “call center” is… [/QUOTE] I want to know how the fuck you’ve managed to exist in the western world and yet avoid this piece of information. ---
**Author:** ![stpauler](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9d8465/32.png) [@stpauler](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stpauler)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/43 "2008-02-25T22:46:48Z")
[QUOTE=jjimm] I want to know how the fuck you’ve managed to exist in the western world and yet avoid this piece of information. [/QUOTE] Because most of the call centers are in the eastern world now? ---
**Author:** ![jjimm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ba8739/32.png) [@jjimm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jjimm)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/44 "2008-02-25T22:53:57Z")
[QUOTE=stpauler] Because most of the call centers are in the eastern world now? [/QUOTE] God forbid those wily orientals hook these fiendish things up to our phonelines, then! ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2008, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/45 "2008-02-25T23:05:33Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Because you’re an expert not only on the Madison job market but also on my personal state of being and preparedness to look for another job. Fuck you. [/QUOTE] No, no expert. No doubt some astrological confluence of external factors has fixed you where you sit lo these many months, going on years: a bright beacon afloat in a sea of mediocrity; paralyzed but not insensate; impotent, yet unwilling to suffer in silence. I’ll light a candle in my window for you. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/46 "2008-02-26T01:41:21Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] No, no expert. No doubt some astrological confluence of external factors has fixed you where you sit lo these many months, going on years: a bright beacon afloat in a sea of mediocrity; paralyzed but not insensate; impotent, yet unwilling to suffer in silence. I’ll light a candle in my window for you. [/QUOTE] Well, you know, I’ve had a lot of shit going on in my life over the last several years on both a personal and a professional level. Much of this shit has left me at a point where, owing to a variety of factors, the cost/benefit analyisis of looking for a new job at this point compared to the cost/benefit analysis of staying where I am leads me to the conclusion that staying where I am is the better choice for me for now. But hey, thanks for the candle. Please feel free to cram it right up your ass, fucker. ---
**Author:** ![Muffin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/muffin/32/4341_2.png) [@Muffin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Muffin)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 2:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/47 "2008-02-26T02:32:09Z")
[QUOTE=Harmonious Discord] In China they don’t bitch about their jobs, because they’ll send the death van. Those organs have to come from somebody. [/QUOTE] Actually, that’s India, with all its call centres and [Dr. Kidney](http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/JB22Df03.html) doing a pissing-good business. ---
**Author:** ![Klaatu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e0b2c6/32.png) [@Klaatu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Klaatu)\ **Post date:** [February 26, 2008, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967/48 "2008-02-26T04:33:56Z")
[QUOTE=Otto] Well, you know, I’ve had a lot of shit going on in my life over the last several years on both a personal and a professional level. Much of this shit has left me at a point where, owing to a variety of factors, the cost/benefit analyisis of looking for a new job at this point compared to the cost/benefit analysis of staying where I am leads me to the conclusion that staying where I am is the better choice for me for now. But hey, thanks for the candle. Please feel free to cram it right up your ass, fucker. [/QUOTE] It’s all because of the twenty bucks. Dude, you are getting a royal bad karmic payback. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/its-called-staffing-levels-assholes-look-it-up/438967.md?page=2)