If I had a flying car I would go to the school if wizardry
Hello! How are you doing
Hello!
i would try and patent every single part of that bad boy and then just rake in the royalties from that That would be really nice
I am doing good and how about you?
Are you  new to chit chat? I haven't seen you on here before I'm doing well! A little stressed since I'm losing my placing in the challenge. But otherwise doing well.
Well I am not that new.  I was in the other one before but I would sometimes talk later at night because I did not have a lot of time.
I had an interview this morning which was exciting.  Did a lot of work during the day. And am finally able to relax a little Oh cool! I have been having issues with not getting people to respond on the other ends of chats
Yeah I just got back from school and I have to work later and I am trying to take advantage of the time I have now to relax and chat.
So I end up just talking to myself for like a long time before finally just giving up on waiting haha Nice! All in for that mac right?
Really? That is weird. Well at least you can still earn some points. Yeah of course! I got in the other raffle.
I have a lot of stuff going on between now and Sunday.  This weekend should be crazy for me
I don't know when they will announce it. I don't even know how or when it will take place. Really? Do you have a lot of homework stuff to do ?
I got myself like way ahead of everyone so I just have relaxed the past 2 days, but now people are threatening so I've got to kick it into high gear No, more stuff for work and events i have to attend They announce the mac at the very end. This round ends on the 19th of this month It's a nice way to spend time though What kinds of things do you like to do when you have time?
Haha yeah it is kinda hard because we have school and at the same time trying to keep up on these chats can be kinda hard if we have a busy lift but if not then it should not
I personally like to build apps and websites for fun.
be a problem. Wow that sounds awesome. Are you taking CS142?
oh no, I took that in 2013 lol I'm pretty far along in the CS program
Oh wow so do you have a while being in school?
as you can imagine haha yup!
I know how to code but I am a beginner. Just some basic stuff I am not very good.
nice! oh that's fine. It takes a while before anyone is decent in the program
For fun I like to play sports, watch movies, or play board games, or video games.
I only recently have like really kicked my development into high gear
I don't know I like to do a lot of different stuff I am not limited to just one thing
Nice!  Sounds kind of like what I like to do Are you big into fortnite right now?
I have played it but I am not very good haha so that kinda discouraged me from playing and I haven't had a lot of time for video games lately
I would totally be relaxing with a game of fortnite right now if I wasn't concerned of losing in this challenge haha
It seems cool though. I like the idea that everyone starts with nothing and they have to find the weapons and stuff
oh that's fine, everyone kind of sucks at it.  But you get better I like to play it on the PC.
Hahaha maybe you could play and chat at the same time!
that and Starcraft II oh no... that would be very bad I would totally forget to respond on here if I did that I need to keep chatting so I can keep pulling away! people are hot on my heels!
Oh hey I have played starcraft II also!
Pardon all of my random thoughts that i'm spewing at you Nice! Who do you like to play as?
I have played the first one , diablo, warcraft.
Zerg, Protoss, Terran
I like everyone because they all have unique stuff they bring to the table
I personally am a huge Zerg fan.  I love playing as the zerg
haha man I think it is crazy how they can spawn so crazy and just swarm! Did you know that if you go to google and type zerg rush a little game will pop up where you have to destroy a bunch of "o" trying to destroy your results It is kinda funny and awesome
oh yeah! It's the best oh nice! I have a perfect build order for the zerg that helps me just obliterate others I am so worried! People are seriously hot on my heels right now! My dog just took a nice little turd on my new rug...
Hahaha, are you checking the stats or something? Like for the chat?
Seriously she's the worst haha
Haha what type of dog is she?
I have the leaderboard open in a seperate tab and check on it regularly Miniature Dachshund, long haired
I love animals but I currently don't have one because I would not really have time to take care of one.
Like don't get me wrong I still have a nice lead, but in just 8 hours they've caught up 2/3 of the way to the lead I had on them this morning I just want to have a big enough lead where I don't have to stress out about chatting all the time honestly. Yeah, plus it's tough with housing to find a place that allows it We pay extra each month to have her at our place. We got her back in like June
So I searched the dog up in google and the breed seems like a very cute dog!
She's honestly the best, but a lot to handle too oh yeah! They're adorable just high energy they like to run around a lot
Yeah I am going to chat to try and get the raffle. Are you trying to get the iPad Pro?
Yup! I thought i had it in the bag until about 30 minutes ago haha I had a 1.2 million point lead before today!
Wow so I am guessing you are the one in first place! How did you even chat so much? I was like wow 2 million
hahah, I spent a nice amount of time on here the first week of this round I tried to get far enough ahead where others would just give up. But it didn't really work. Now I'm in trouble Because I don't have lots of free time like the others do so If I can't stay far enough ahead then I will lose to them.
Haha well I would give up. I am just trying to get that raffle and that is it! This is nice because we can win prizes and just be random with random topics
That's why I've got to just chat for the next couple of hours
Yeah I understand you.
I can type really fast which helps me out a lot.  But we will see what happens ultimately.
Go hard or go home
Exactly So how are you liking bYU?
I think I can type kinda fast but I am not the fastest typer. I tend to make a lot of typos.
You said it's like your first semester back from your mission right? yeah, I tend to do that too
I like it. It is my first semester and it is kinda stressful.
lol
Yeah I got back around may
just wait when you get further along haha
I was going to get back in june but they closed down my mission.
Literally it's so crazy for me righ tnow but if you like your major it makes life easier
Yeah I am guessing it gets harder when you go more and more into your major.
oh yeah but you enjoy your classes more so the work is fun even though it's way more fun.
Yeah, I think I just need to get used to school because I had not gone to school in over 3 years. I worked for a year to save money to go on a mission.
yup It'll be alright though just need to get in that groove.
Then I went for two years so that is a total of three years that I have not been in school. I think I will get better at school in the future.
Just can't get lazy Hey I have a question for you So I'm currently planning out and validating a business idea. I am creating a company that companies can outsource validation and customer care work to instead of outsourcing to india. Basically I'm going to employ BYU and UVU students for like 10.50 an hour which for most companies is super cheap but for students is a lot. Would you work for 10.50 an hour in a call center or data center? Assuming you don't have a more lucrative job/internship already established?
Well I do have a job that pays more.
okay so that's a no haha
But If I didn't then yeah I would!
I know that BYU pays crap for like everything and I could offer starting wage of 10.50 and increases up to 12 an hour. Which for other companies is like dirt cheap. Especially when it's competent students and not poor speaking indians doing the work. And with the language and communication skills most students have from their missions I figured it'd be perfect!
Yeah I got a job that started me at 12.75 which seemed pretty good to me! But that does seem like a good business idea!
I'm currently working on a software that can easily be integrated into a company so that we can use one general product to cover multiple different companies simultaneously That's great!
Wow, sounds like your education at BYU has been really paying off!
There are so many things to work out though. Well I was part of a startup last year
I hope in the future I can have ideas of what I want to do. Are you working on it with someone or by yourself?
I'm trying to prep for the business competition this coming winter I want to actually make this or something else a viable business that i could operate post school I just need to validate it to see if it would pay off. So as of right now this is on my own.  Should I run into something I don't know  how to do though I might bring someone else on. I have experience in app development, sales and customer management though so  I have most of my bases covered so far.
So is this something you have been doing as a hobby?
But there are always lots of obstacles Yes it is I work currently at a nice job, but would rather start up my own company if possible
Do you think it would pay off to create an App that could go viral and make you a lot of monies from ads?
not exactly no that's typically a shot in the dark there are millions of apps and very few are actually profitable on that kind of level I am trying to build a business and software product that can be scaled and placed near other universities in cities where wages are typically really low The idea is that instead of outsourcing to india for x dollars. Companies can outsource to experience and skilled americans for roughly the same cost, maybe a tiny extra charge given the skill gap I have another idea too, but I'm just focusing on this one for now
hmm. So I don't exactly understand everything you are saying. Maybe since we have time and we are chatting you could kinda dumb it down for me?
I'm debating using salesforce to potentially connect my product to the client 's
So if I understand correctly, you want to create a software that other companies can use?
So lets assume I'm a company. I have the problem of lacking a call center to handle customers complaints, concerns, sales, etc. I want to outsource all of this because I can't afford/ don't have the time to manage all of this myself. Instead of outsourcing this work to companies in India or columbia like most companies do, I would go to chitchatter23's company. Because they have very skilled, foreign speaking and skilled communicating americans that can do all of this work for me. Chitchatter23's company only charges a dollar more per employee devoted towards my company and has developed a product that can integrate with my business's system to handle customers concerns and scheduling needs, etc. So since there is a lot more value to be had, I'm going to hire chitchatter23's company. Does that kind of make sense? The idea is just a higher quality outsourcing company that handles a lot more than others would for just a slightly higher price point
Okay yeah that makes sense! Thanks for explaining it to me. This kinda reminds me of Nu Skin. My mom works there and she told there are people there that speak in spanish. English, mandarin, and Korean and some others I don't really know about.
The software i'm talking about would be like a portal that handles customer information, scheduling, complaints, etc.  and it would connect directly to a companies products so they can see information in real time that the call center is receiving, despite them outsourcing to me. Yeah! And that's the beauty of hiring BYU and UVU students.  Most jobs they'll get on or around campus are between 8-9.50 per hour and are really crappy jobs.  I'm offering them more money and also better looking work for their resume's I profit over their cheap labor and language/communication skills from their mission and they benefit with experience and pay
Ohh okay! That is awesome! I am sure if you were to post it around BYU people would definitely want to do it. Would you do part time and full time for the students that want to work there at the Call Center?
I'm still trying to validate the idea and see if both companies and byu students would be game for this buisness model, but I'll figure it out eventually Probably both I would have teams devoted to each company and they would work specifically for that given company during their time at my company
Yeah, you sound like a really smart person! I am sure you will figure it out.
So we would have like 10 miniature call centers all contained in one big one. Skilled employees could get promoted to roles in Management and sales and assuming we could keep hiring non stop we could take on more and more clients I worked in a call center for a while as a manager and there are a lot of good/bad things that I picked up on while there I'm not an expert by any means, but I feel like I could establish a fairly effective system that would be very lucrative to companies.  I think the important thing is just getting my first client who I could do some testing on Should things go well then I could go full speed ahead with the idea. You mentioned earlier that you are interested in sports do you like to watch sports? college football, nfl, nba?
I don't watch a lot of television lately
Darn, I am getting really excited for the NBA to start up again next week I am a huge Washington Wizards fan Like super big fan
We haven't had cable since before I was a teenager. My sister gets into the World Cup
oh you do know you get free cable with BYU  right? BYU offers free internet tv to all students
I don't live at BYU dorms our student housing I live with my family.
I know, but I'm pretty sure you can still get free internet tv with byu I used it at my apartment in south provo like  a year ago
Really?! That would be something worth looking into.
I don't remember the website but all students should get it.  It's internet tv They filter out a lot of movies on it, but most live events you can get for free Pretty cool There are a lot of perks and resources that BYU offers students that they don't know about Like scholarships, grants, transportation, perks, etc.
Yeah, I'm very out of the loop when it comes to that.
Pretty cool stuff! i think in the cs department these things spread pretty fast since we just sit behind computers all day hah we are totally losers
Totally
There is a big stereotype of CS students being antisocial and just sitting behind computers all day. It's totally true. That's exactly how we are. Okay I'm getting really bothered with that second place person.  No one else on the chit chat challenge is getting points yet they've gained 600 k in 3 hours.  They're talking in a chat just to themselves and for whatever reason the person on the other end isn't responding so they're getting tons of points Ahhhh so stressful I can't stay on here 24/7 like they can I don't have the time available like that
How do you know they are talking to themselves?
because if someone else was talking then we would see the score of other chatters go up no one else has a score that's increasing so we can assume they're talking to themselves It's happened to me before, but I always just end the chat after 5 minutes of waiting. They've rolled with it for 3 whole hours I don't think I can chat for that long every day until this challenge is over. Hence why I'm stressing out. I have put a lot of time into staying on top so I can't just back off now since there are only 8 days left... But.  I can't keep up with them should they get as many points as they've been getting each day.
I think something is wrong with my chat. I typed something but it did  not seem to type for me. Instead it just kinda disappears so if I type anything more than once I apolgiz
I have gained about 40 k points on them so far chatting at the same time as them, but still, there is a lot of roomfor them to gain on me
Yeah this is weird.
oh you're fine
I am typing and nothing is coming out.
huh, that's weird are you using your phone?
I wonder if I lost the connection or something.
I've had issues on my phone before with chit chat
Oh okay it looks like it is working now
Oh good!
I was not seeing any of your responses but I am seeing them now so that is good!
So what's the craziest thing that you've done this past week. I think for me it would be procrastinating studying for my bio test until the day before I had to take it Not a wise decision. I was stressing out big time the day before my test. Luckily they have a quiz that we have to take before the test. So it's kind of like a warm up before you have to take the test So that gave me a good idea of how the test was gonna be but still I was extremely stressed out. Not my finest hour
Well I had to take 3 exams this week so that was kinda stressful. I thought I was going to do good in the American Heritage exam.
Oh that's the worst I hate American heritage.
I passed it, but I did not do as good as I would have liked to do.
What other test you have to take.
Haha Yeah my older brother he already graduated and he says the same thing about American Heritage.
I struggled so much in my American heritage class. I told myself that I just need to get through it that I wouldn't have to take it again afterwards
I also had to take a college algebra exam
Honestly it's just one of those classes that everyone just takes because it's required but everybody hates it. Oh that stinks I don't like math very much even though I have to take a lot of it for my major ha ha
Yeah I was really good at math but I don't know i forgot a lot so I am taking this to kinda refresh my mind.
So I know you said you want to  get a minor in Spanish what are you thinking about majoring in? That's a good idea do you have to take calculus? I had to take calculus one and two along with linear algebra so that was very stressful
Yeah I have to take calculus. I am thinking about majoring in electrical engineering.
Oh cool I hear that's a great major although I'm pretty sure you have to stay in school for like five years. Does that sound correct?
Yeah I think those classes are going to be hard so I am going to try and not have that many classes so I can focus most of my time on those classes.
Engineering is a very tedious major I think through electrical engineering you might have to take computer science 142
Yeah I think I have to stay in school for like 5 years. Which is fine for me I don't mind it. As long as I get good grades and get the degree.
You're either going to love it or you're going to hate it that's typically how it goes Do you have family helping out with paying for school or do you have to pay for yourself?
Yeah I am going to have to take it. My older brother is really good at coding and he can help me out.
Nice you should have too much of a problem then. It's really not that hard, but a lot of people really struggle because they don't put the time
I am paying for it myself.  My family does not have a lot of money and they are in debt so I have to pay it myself. Which professor do you recommend for CS142?
That's  really impressive though Kudos to you Honestly I took in 2013 so I'm probably not the best person to ask I haven't taken it in a while
Yeah it is kinda stressful too because I have to worry about paying my tuition and also about my school but somehow I manage.
I took it from a really, really, really old professor Have you been applying for scholarships or financial aid at least? I know both BYU and the federal government offer a lot of scholarships and grants if you don't have others paying for your tuition My wife and I actually tried to get a federal grant but were denied because I had someone helping with my tuition
Yeah I have applied for financial aid but BYU is not giving it to me because my mom has not done her income taxes since like 2014 and she has to do the one for 2016
Oh that's a bummer I'm sorry hear that
So I have to wait on her when she does it and I keep telling her but i don't know that is another stressful situation with her haha.
Yeah taxes are extremely stressful I hated doing them and I am just a young adult so I can imagine how stressful be for her What do your parents do for a living?
I told her if she doesn't do her financial aid I won't be able to go to school next semester because I won't have the money for it.
Also side question what exactly is it that you do for work?
My parents are divorced and my dad lives in Mexico and my mom works at Nu Skin at a call center. I also work with my mom at Nu Skin.
Yeah money is a very stressful thing have you gotten good enough grades to to come close to qualifying for a scholarship? That's really cool
They pay good and in christmas they are going to give me a christmas bonus! And they give gifts to their employees
That's really cool do they have like options to get commissions based on retaining clients and signing new ones?
Yeah I have good grades so far, I am going to apply for scholarships to help me out for the next semester.
Sorry if I ask a lot of questions about the call center I'm just really curious with this idea that I have
yeah they do give commissions on clients you sign up and stuff.
What kind of work do you guys do the call center is it just handling customer concerns and complaints or do you all also manage sales Nice that's really cool
But it is not like a big commission and yeah thats fine you can ask all the questions you want! It helps me type and know what to say.
So I know the company that I work for I got a 5% commission on all of the services completed from the sale or re-signing that I made and if I signed a multi year contract with With them I would get 10% instead do you guys get similar percentages for commissions? I'd be really curious as to what like a common percentage is for commissions between call centers
Yeah well whenever a customer calls me they usually want to pay an order they made online and I help them with that. For Nu Skin it is also 5 percent.
OK cool that helps me a lot Honestly once I really start getting into validating this idea I'm probably going to start going to lots of call centers And asking around and seeing what kinds of things they do differently in the same what works and what doesn't
They also give 5 dollars for this other thing. If you upset them an item then you get 5 dollars to your bonus.
Hopefully I can convince my old boss to give me kind of inside access and see once again like I used to all the different tricks in different numbers regarding their call cent Center operation What do you mean by if you upset them an item?
Yeah Nu Skin has actually opened up some Call Centers overseas.
I'm assuming you meant upsell now that I think about it?
Oh yeah sorry I meant upsell
Cool yeah see that's the issue I'm trying to address with companies like them who can't keep up with the growth we would step in to help out But obviously we would want to take on all of the customer care not just a portion So I think I'd be looking at small company it's not big ones like new skin At least for this foreseeable future
Yeah for sure. I get people who call from Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia.
Yeah and what stinks is customers get a lot more aggravated a lot quicker and get angry faster when it's not an American made here
Yeah Nu Skin is a big company! They make billions a year or so they tell me.
I know I get really frustrated when I hear someone that's not American Oh I believe it they make a lot of money with all their products
Yeah haha because it is sometimes hard to understand their english.
Yeah I agree What is one thing that you can think of that you would like to see done differently where you work?
I remember I called the credit bureau to fix some information and I think it was a lady from India
And what's one of the best things that they do at new skin in the call center? LOL it's so funny when it's like a really important business and they outsourced to India
Well so far I don't know what I would like for them to do differently but I like that whoever is doing really good on the phones they praise them and give me rewards. It makes me want to work harder and be a better worke.
Nice so they don't actually tear people down but they give benefits encourage people that are doing well? Have you seen what they do when someone is not working well?
Worker. They also offer a health care plan and several other plans to their employees and we have access to their gym
Do they just fire them, or do they reprimand them, or do they move them to a different department? That's awesome how much do they typically end up taking out of your paycheck if you opt in for the health care plan?
When someone is not working well, they send people to hear their calls and tell them what they can improve on. Like people to give them advice to improve. It's nice They try to help us be better.
Cool so does that typically make people nervous to not perform well as well? Did you all undergo some sort of training course before you started fielding calls?
I am not sure but I remember seeing this other guy looking at their health care plan and saying it is not very good but I thought it was cool at least they had one. Yeah we went through a 3 week training before we got on the calls.
Yeah that's nice I don't think that the company I work for offer health insurance at the time question Nice How little would you be willing to work for at a call center if you didn't have a job? Also what do you think would be the ideal pay for a call center employee?
Well I would take any job I could get if I didn't have one. The one that pays the most. I feel like I can't really be picky because I am paying for my own school.
Yeah that's true Honestly what's really difficult for me is that if I am going to do this business I'm going to have to start off with small wages for people
Well I think $10 is good enough because I worked at another call center that was paying me 10.25 and I left because Nu Skin offers more money
Because being very new and very small I need to limit my expenses as much as possible to be able to grow quicker Oh OK
Hey so I have a question. In the leaderboard I see a 0 and a 1 is the number one person in the 0 spot?
That doesn't sound bad at all Yes in computer science all lists in arrays start at location zero so for computer science student zero is actually one Hence why the lists on the leaderboard starts at zero So yeah I'm at spot zero  LOL
Ohhh okay, so I have a twin brother and he as chatting with the person in 2nd place. was chatting*
This person is still just racking up a steady stream of points Oh no ha ha tell him to stop talking with her ha ha just kidding This competition is starting to get very competitive though
He told me that the person in 2nd place is not enrolled in classes at BYU because she is leaving on her mission soon so she does have all the time in the world!
This competition starting to get very competitive though I'm a little worried because I brought on a friend to help me get more points and now he's really motivated to win to Making it more difficult for me Yeah she's not in rolled in classes and she has nothing to do because she's not working right now so she has a lot of free time I got myself up by 1.2 million points and I figured she would give up but I guess not
Yeah, that sounds like it is tough! The competition!
Hence why am on here nonstop right now trying to get as many points as I can
If you win an iPad Pro can you win a second one?
Because when I'm in classes that I'm taking test and I have other commitments with work and stuff she keeps racking up points and I'm not No you can't, but I've already invested so much time into this round that I don't want to stop If I don't win this round I probably will just when next round, but if there's another person that has much free time as her then I'm in trouble I meant win not win
Yeah, those people with free time are dangerous! I don't have a lot of free time so I am just trying to be in the raffle!
Yeah that's a safe bet I figured since I was already so far ahead I might as well keep it up During the time she and I are talking at the same time I actually gained an extra hundred thousand points on her But she keeps on gaining so I have to keep talking
Yeah and what if she is typing the same words over and over again like ink ink ink ink ink ink
So they actually have an algorithm that checks for that and disregards entire chart that happens Also whoever ends up winning they have moderators that look at every single chat that they've done and in sure that they're not saying nonsensical stuff
Oh wow that is cool, so they can eliminate conversations?
So they do a decent job at making sure that it's legitimate Yeah they can aluminate conversations if needed
Wow, so then I guess we sure have to keep an interesting conversation then.
Not necessarily interesting but it has to make sense to not just be random comments after each oth Not necessarily interesting but it has to make sense and not just be random comments after each other  as long as we were actually interacting with each other we are fine Oh wow I didn't realize this but I guess I'm actually getting a lot more points per minute then she is If I can just keep the study struggles of points going then I should be OK If I can just keep the study struggles of points going then I should be OK
Oh okay, and do you think if someone was quoting a book then would they eliminate that too? Like lets say someone decides to write a whole book in the conversation.
Hoops I'm sorry I didn't mean to send that message twice Something weird happened I just sent it twice
Yeah I think sometimes this chat thing glitches or something I don't know.
I would assume they would yeah If maybe they were quoting a tiny part of a book that might be OK, but not a whole book Like that would just be pointless data they want social interactions an actual chats I think they should let us actually talk to Eve the project they're building so they can test her out and see how we react to things she says I think that would be some really solid data that they could get if we were allowed to talk to Eve But obviously I'm not in charge of this so they probably know better than me If I can just keep on getting way more points than her per minute then I think eventually she will just give up
I think it is super cool what they are doing. I would love to see how it turns out to be when they finish creating her and stuff.
At least for today and then tomorrow if I have more time I can gain on her more Yeah not sure exactly how it's going to be or how we can see the product I do know that it's for Amazon Alexa and that they got a lot of money for the work they did last year I think they got a quarter of $1 million actually from Amazon for winning some competition Another nice thing is that I have a friend that should be getting on later tonight with me who should be able to help me have a long conversation get more points
Oh really? So BYU won one million dollars?
Oh no sorry I set a quarter of $1 million
That is nice to have a friend to help you chat
Said not set
Oh yeah sorry I did not see that quarter
I'll good All good
quarter of a million my mind just kinda blanked that part out.
Wow I'm getting bad at typing I think they use that money for computer equipment for paying for research analysts and stuff like that Also for the prizes