dear sir-madam
i really like surveys. you know, the ones where someone rings you up and says "dear sir-madam this is kylie from something researching and would it be ok if i ask you some questions it will only take a moment of your time"
i am never home when these people ring, which sucks. or when i am they only want to speak to the cheif income earner which i am not. though i do earn income, sometimes. and if i had a good costume i could totally be a cheif. with a hat. in like hats.
anyway the best thing about surveys is that for a few minutes you have someone's undivided attention while you rant on about what your opinion is (kind of like a blog, except they come to you), and afterwards they THANK you for it. and you get to feel like you have helped your country in some small way. either that or you have helped some international corporation earn more money, but i try not to think about that.
i finally got to do a survey yesterday, it was very exciting. i talked to a very nice lady and she wanted to ask me about non-alcoholic cold beverages. i told her that that was right up my ally. she asked me how many people in my house buy cold beverages and then what age group i was in. but when she found out that i was 20-24 we could not continue, cos turns out "sorry, that age group is full at the moment. can i call you back next week?"
i don't get it. why will it not be full next week? does anyone know?
posted by Natalie @ 10:48 am
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excuse me! [from a 23 year old whose soon to be 24 and having scary thoughts about 25 already!]
Maybe they have a weekly quota for each age group; that way they can ensure they get the right number of correctly-aged people. Sounds a little snobby though, after all you were willing to answer their questions.
But next time someone rings me for a survey, I'll send em along to you with pleasure :)
thank you sarah, please do :)
yomcat i think you should check your toes.
chocolate!
...it's soooo stupid.
I'm still going to eat it though.
But not until tomorrow :)
i concur. chocolate is the worst.
especially chocolate chips from moore wilson's. damn wilson.
p.s. surveys are great. not long until the best survey of them all THE CENSUS. i'm so excited. just like charlie bucket.
p.p.s. damn wonka.
it cut off my name!!! [unimpressed]
the worst thing about chocolate chips is that you can fool yourself into believing you are only eating a small piece of chocolate and so it doesn't count.
unfortunately it is easy to fool yourself millions of times in succession.
what is real cool (or real bad) is when you melt down a whole lot of chocolate chips in the microwave and then put them onto a sheet of tin foil in desired shape and wait for it to dry and then you feel real cool like you have made you own chocolate. if you were extra keen you could put things in the chocolate, like 100's and 1000's or marshmallows or cookie crumbs or more chocolate.
but what am i saying?
chocolate is STUPID.
i guess i don't mind it at the moment cos it's not bothering me at all. hah! that's right. stay in your place, stupid chocolate.
you tell it natalie
I know you won't read this, cos it's an old post... but oh well.
Um. I've done market research all year, so I'm pretty much the smartest. Ahem.
You get given quotas from your boss each week/wateva, so your lady would have done all her 20-24 quota for that week, and would be waiting to get her next week's quota.
Either that or simply the 20-24 age group was full. Like globally. There was no more room for any 20-24 yr olds in the world. So some would have to die over the next week, so that the 20-24 age group wasn't full anymore.
One of those.
Ps. u can do one of my surveys
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