<human>: so I recently got hired as a seasonal worker at a call center for a major clothing retailer in my city. I had always heard terrible things about working at call centers but I thought this place was going to be different because it pays well above minimum wage, has some benefits even for part-timers and it's one of my city's biggest employers. Heck, I even had friends who worked there in the past and liked it.

But now I'm starting to realize just how awful I am at answering real-life phone calls. I have answered phone calls in other jobs but never anything this complicated. I'm learning about performance metrics, QA, scripting…and how we have to pass our call evals with at least 88% or higher. I am required to upsell, push customers to apply for the store's credit card and provide at least 2 rebuttals if they decline/refuse. My training group transitioned to the sales floor yesterday where I took my first retail store call, and the customer and store associate were so rude and difficult. I have dealt w/ some awful people in my face-to-face retail jobs, but never to this extent.

I really need this job because I'm in grad school and need the $$ for textbooks and travel costs. I don't want to up and quit without a backup because that's what I did in my last job. I need to make it until at least this upcoming January just so I have something on my resume to fill the gap.

Can you give me a shortened version of the text?
<bot>: working seasonal job at inbound call center. tips on how 2 survive until at least early January or if I find something better