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    10 months ago

    Do they only poll via phone calls? I’m not a dinosaur, so Google Voice screens anybody not in contacts by asking their name. This defeats most robodialers, and having done a couple jobs which included political polls, you only get the call and poll script on your screen once the robodialer has confirmed it didn’t reach a voicemail.

    This applies to all types of ‘research gathering’ phone calls as in both phone survey jobs I’ve had, you would get random campaigns based on what numbers were in the robodialer for the timezones it picked. You could be talking to some old guy who was lonely and wanted nothing more than a detailed talk about Ford trucks in between your questions about Ford’s latest models, and the next call be questions such as, “if X candidate were to take a stronger position against giving free lunch to school kids, would the chance you vote for them increase, decrease, or stay the same?”

    I did not last long at either job as it is soulkilling work