Doing surveys for people you don't know

*I suddenly had this feeling that I HAVE TO blog already. I haven't seem to blog properly in the longest time ever wasn't in the mood I guess. Anyways.*

About doing surveys. I thought I should try to be nice since I wanna get into this industry someday.

Today, a lady (sounds aunty with broken English and all) called my home, and since I was the only one around in the hall, I answered the phone, turns out, she was calling from some market research company wanting to do a survey. (Did I forget to mention that its the exact same company that I sent my resume to and didn't reply?)

She was like half begging me to help her do the survey, so I told her ok, and asked what is the subject about. She told me that its on chocolates, and I later realised that it is particulary on Ferro Roche. Nevermind how I knew it.

Anyways.

Its a very normal survey, the kind you get all the time. I haven't done a reseach for anyone I don't know in a long long while because they all tend to be overly pushy and when you agree to do one, they end you asking you to do another and another and another and insert no of times.

That was EXACTLY what happened. *grunts*

ALOT of questions can? She kept asking me questions after questions and after going through so many, I started to get really impatient. At first, I didn't notice, after asking about chocolates, she suddenly started asking me about sweets, and I thought "fine, maybe got some link"

Then she started to ask other questions TOTALLY NOT related to chocolates nor sweets. Like mobile usage, coffee, MATTRESSES, and she didn't even bother to tell me that we are moving on to the next next and next topic. For fear I would just tell her enough, and hang up.

Wah lau. How can like this? First, not pro lor, before every new topic, you should read out to the interviewee what the research topic is about, second, you even tried to cover it up hoping that I wouldn't know that I'm actually doing more than one survey.

I know you get paid for every one suvey you get people to complete, but this is also not the way right?

Anyways.

I got REALLY impatient and asked her, "how many surveys EXACTLY do you want me to complete?" Then she say last one last one. So, in the end, I did like a total of 5 surveys when she told me she only needed me to help her with one. -_-

Interviewers like these are ther exact reason why I stopped helping people to do surveys and I'm feeling so foolish now that just when I decided to be nice...... Grrrrrrrr