This study examines the work experience of individuals who work as call center operators in the city of Rio de Janeiro. In a moment in their lives, such individuals could not keep their activities in their jobs due to the illness of their physical or mental health, as a result of working in telemarketing centers in the city of Rio de Janeiro. Thus, they had to get away indefinitely from their duties and experienced the difficulty of rehabilitation and returning to their jobs. Illness occurs due to deregulation, intensification of rights, a result of precarious work caused mainly by service sector outsourcing in the new global economic, which has flexibilized work, exhausted workers and caused them illnesses. The profile of call center workers stands out for being very heterogeneous. It is composed mostly by young residents of Rio s suburbs, with predominance of women in the function. As management itself says, call centers would be a place where everybody is welcome, accepting large portion of the population considered as minority in our society, who is victim of many prejudices, such as women, blacks, homosexuals and obese people. The research was based on data collected through the Sindicato dos Trabalhadores em Empresas de Telecomunicação do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (Rio-Sinttel), obtaining information about the largest call center in the city. It was observed that the diseases that most withdraw workers from their functions are LER/ Dort, despite the growing number of removal of call center workers for problems related to mental health such as depression, stress, panic disorders, all of them caused by the constant pressure suffered in the workplace: the need to answer the call at any given time, selling products like insurance, do not be late, always be courteous and polite even with the adversities in attendance that are beyond the control of the operator; be monitored during the whole connection time, among others. In other words, the operator must have a smile on the voice for the large number of callings that answers and throughout the workday. These pressures and the work process in the studied company lead workers to physical and mental exhaustion, causing their expulsion from work functions. Another observed problem regards the recovery of workers and their return to job after rehabilitation. These elements indicate that telemarketers end up being treated as a goods whose expiration date is quite short before the problems they face.