Cold calling hell

The last 5 minutes of my day were spent trapped in the following telephone conversation:

Crusoe: Can I help you?
Kind lady: I'm from XYZ employment agency
Crusoe: What can I help you with?
Kind lady: We specialise in IT staff and I'd like to place some of our candidates within your company
Crusoe: You said you place IT staff?
Kind lady: Yes
Crusoe: We aren't an IT company
Kind lady: What do you do?
Crusoe: We're a media communications company
Kind lady: What's that?
Crusoe: It's not an IT company
Kind lady: Do you want to hire any IT staff
Crusoe: Not today thanks.
Kind lady: Okay thank you
Crusoe: Anytime dear

I chose not to pick a fight with this lady over where she got my details and why she didn't know what my company did because I was overwhelmed with pity for her. She is trapped doing a job in which she has absolutely no interest at all. I wouldn't be surprised is she got to work in the morning and simply dialed a random seven digit number to get her day started.

Hell isn't a place beneath the crust of the earth where everything is on fire and nasty little gremlins chew with their mouths open - it's having no passion what so ever for the job you are doing. If you're job is anything like this kind lady's then you need to get out. If you happen to be in the IT industry then you can give her a call and she'll find you a job in media communications.