What's a normal call volume? I’m taking anywhere from 75 to 100 calls a day! Not to mention the calling OUT since we are expected to be a first-call resolution help desk, so I am always chasing customers to fix the issues that get assigned to me. But the burnout at the end of the week is HEAVY. My ears are ringing from constant yelling in my ear. Any advice?

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I feel your pain! Dealing with angry customers can be really draining. Taking regular breaks to stretch, relax and clear my head helped a lot. Also, it can help to remind yourself why you're doing this job - you're helping people and making a difference!

I hear ya! Constant and then nevermind I can't get to my emails.

That is a lot of calls. Can those tasks be automated or self-service? We get about 50 calls a day for a team of 4. Which is prob low but we try to automate and self-service as much as possible.

It does sound like you’re understaffed. We have 2 helpdesk techs and around 1000 users across 20 companies. We get about 5 to 10 calls a day and then about 100 open tickets at a time. We have drilled it into our clients you only call for important issues everything else can be done via email.

I take about 9 calls on a slow day and 25 on a busy day. We also handle emails. I rarely feel burnt out from it but when it gets busy I deal with a lot of back pain bc although I take few calls in comparison, the nature of the calls can be emotional and draining so my back carries a lot of that stress.

Back-to-back calls. But they take a long time to resolve so not really a huge deal.

Whoa, that's a lot OP! My call center job is probably the holy grail. It's rare for us to get back-to-back calls. It ebbs and flows, some days it is pretty steady and we'll only get around 5 minutes between calls. On slow days it can be up to an hour between calls. Most of the calls are quite short too.

I WFH so it's nice, gives me time to mess around on Reddit, watch YouTube, do some crocheting, etc. I've had some rougher CC jobs in the past so it's good to finally have one that's more laid back.

I average between 25-30 calls per day. it's a mixed bag of everything from irate to happy customers. I would much rather short and sweet than long and wound out.

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