September 29, 2000 at 12:00 am #20279
Brian23057
Participant
Part of my job includes collecting delinquent bills, and I am currently searching for a new job because of what you’ve described. I’ve been cursed, threatened and screamed at while on the job, and frankly, I’m sick of it. A few months ago a 70-plus-year-old man threatened to punch my secretary in the nose because he didn’t want to pay the bill. As far as I’m concerned, ‘individuals’ are fine, but ‘people’ are stupid. The problem seems to be that the ‘public’ forgets that we are people, too. We’re your moms and dads, kids, cousins and neighbors. I am not an indentured servant. I am not a slave. My parents did not conceive me for the purpose of being yelled at because someone else wants to be a ‘squeaky wheel.’