well i started a new position at work

Good news?

I'm no longer harrassing grieving people about paying their recently deceased loved ones credit card debt.

Bad News?

I'm now in charge of having the dead people's vehicles repo'd. "sorry kids, your mommy couldn't keep up on the car payments after daddy went bye-bye, someone will be there within the next couple days to take your station wagon."

i'm such an ass.

You know what i'd love to do?

Video game, dvd, and comic book retail. Or landscaping.

 

thats awesome i want your job and you could have mine makin pizzas

 

That's why i feel like such an ass. I really do enjoy it, and i'm so damn good at finding people who don't want to be found it absurd. No one should have as much fun and be so good at doing what it is that i do.

You can too, just find "collections' or "recovery services" in the classifieds or career builder, there is always places hiring, and they give out good bonuses if you can get people to pay you. on some clients you can even threaten to garnish people's wages and the jobs require 0 experience. very cool.

the worst part of those jobs is working in a call center though. i lucked out a si work at a law firm in a nice wide cubicle that is almost, almost, corner office like.

 

You mean... you get paid to make little kids cry? I've so totally wasted my life trying to help poor people keep a roof over their heads...

 

Actually i get paid to make widows and mothers pay and sometimes i have to make them cry before they will, if there's kids around that get affected by that, that's not my fault.

 

What company do you work for?

PS your baby is SO CUTE, I LOVE!

 

*shrugs* Someone's gotta do it, I suppose, and no one should get mad at you, you're not the one who left their asses with debt.

 

I know it sounded like sarcasm but I was sincere. I would do anything for a job where I could feign cruelty.

I know, I'm an angry person. You get used to it.

 

i probably shouldn't say their name. I work for a law firm that represents creditors. If you owe someone money and they sue you, or you owe someone money and you die, it's the lawyers from hell you have to deal with, i work for those lawyers. They are actually nice people but i've heard them bring grown men to tears.

and thank you, i have 2 babies and they are my lifeblood.

 

yikesss

 

and awwww

I really want to be a mom.

 

You don't feign cruelty it actually is cruel. one time I encouraged a cancer patient to sell his computer and shitty car in order to pay off his credit card debt, he was this close to getting it paid off when he died, we also have a probate department, so after he died i filed a claim against his estate in the local surrogate court, his wife was pissed off because it came out of the life insurance money( he wasn't smart enough to have her as a beneficiary so i guess the money goes straight into his estate), my client eventually got paid though i had to hassle with his widow's attorney for a couple months. 2 weeks later I was calling his wife about different credit card, she's on a payment plan with me, and she's on social security. yeah.

 

and now i repo their cars if they don't agree to the arrangments i offer them. it's not right, but it don't exactly feel wrong either, i can get some decent bonuses and what idiot needs a 30k car anyway? all my vehicles, everything i own, is mine.

 

Amen, bruh. No debt here. Gotta be smarter than that.

 

exactly, the funny thing is, i don't even have a credit card. never have, never felt comfortable spending money i didn't actually have. debt free. But i got a decent car, a nice place, good job, supporting a family, and a savings account. i'm planning on retiring with millions and thankfully i live in a country where it's relatively easy to do so. God bless whoever invented the Roth IRA.

So most of the time, i don't have sympathy for the people i contact.