Tuesday, November 25, 2003 America is a vast and beautiful country
My goodness, I'm glad I'm not at work right now.
Lately, they have us scamming churches.
I'm not especially more opposed to scamming churches than I am to scamming mini marts or car dealerships or any other institution. It's the scamming that gets to me.
I don't know if I'm having an attack of conscience, or if I'm just bothered because I'm helping perpetrate scams without my cut. Like, shouldn't I be getting an extra pizza party if I'm really good at being slimy?
I am, by the way. Really.
The scam is this: a certain company contracts labor from the call center, which contracts from my temp agency. We call churches, and ask for certain people's contact information. Later, another company in another state sends something to these people.
I do not know what they send. It could be mere reams of redwood murdering junk mail. I suspect, though, based on the suspicion I've begun to encounter among America's church secretaries, that they're sending out "samples" of some nebulous hipster-Jesus togetherness-centered product that the recipients will then be billed for if they don't send it back.
This generates enough revenue to pay: the company responsible, the call center bosses, the temp agency, and finally, me. Eventually, it trickles down to the cats, who are still forced to endure off brand cat food, and litter that is little more than sand.
posted by Frenz | 11/25/2003 08:16:00 PM
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