Overheard

[muckefuck]

"I don't want a job where I have to be nice to everyone and suck everyone off. That's just not me."

Comments

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

I think I'd draw the line at physical contact, too. I did once consider being a phone sex operator, but that would be [i]it.[/i]

[muckefuck.livejournal.com]

REALLY??? Now this is a story I have to hear!

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

You know the one about being an impoverished unemployed college student, right? I called a place that had an ad in the Reader, but when the the guy called back and told me I had to pose for pictures too, to run with the ads for the service, I dropped it. (And lemme tell you, that was an interesting half of the conversation for my roommates to hear without knowing what it was about; I think I told them it was a crank call to explain my shocked, SHOCKED! tone). Of course, I've learned since that you usually don't have to do that, so the guy had probably just placed the phone sex help wanted ad to get women to call, when what he really wanted was models.

[lifeandstuff.livejournal.com]

In this type of job, do you have a script you have to work with or is it pretty much just all winging it. I think I'd be like, "Uh, that gets me, like, uh, hot or something. Uh uh. Eeewww that is just sick!!! Get your gerbil habit away from me!!!" I probably wouldn't last long.

[mollpeartree.livejournal.com]

As it happens, there was an article in the Reader just a few weeks ago by someone who did this for a couple of years. It sounded like you just more or less wing it, and can pass on customers who squick you too much. There probably can't really be a script, polymorphous perversity being what it is (i.e., polymorphus).