Thread: call centre sexual liasons

Originally Posted by The Age Newspaper

The sex behind the engagement ring

Amrit Dhillon, New Delhi

WHY does it take so long to get through to an Indian call centre? According to the Catholic Church, it's because everyone is too busy chatting up their colleagues — and maybe worse.
The church is so concerned by evidence that call centres are becoming dens of iniquity that it is offering week-long retreats in the hope of turning staff away from a life of sin.
Most centre workers are young, single and on starting salaries much higher than those of doctors or lawyers, so consequently the booming industry has brought about a social revolution.
"Women come to work with condoms in their handbags," said one call centre worker, Alkesh Dua. "Everyone is doing it. You're together all night in this cool, hip atmosphere, and you end up getting intimate."
Employers have tried to offset the monotonous nature of the work itself by creating an informal college campus atmosphere, where there is drinking and partying.
Since many staff work night shifts, after which normal socialising is impossible, office friendships — with accompanying sexual liaisons — have blossomed.
In Bangalore, a call centre hub, the rising number of abortions — up 50 per cent in two years — is blamed on licentious lifestyles.
So entrenched is their reputation for dating, drinking and partying that many middle-class parents are now reluctant to let their daughters take up such jobs. The church hopes to reverse the trend with the launch, in Bangalore, of a series of retreats and counselling sessions.
It will try to tackle the new promiscuity among the country's 1.3 million call centre and outsourcing workers throughout the country.
"We don't want to do moral policing, but we want to advise young people that being 'modern' doesn't mean losing their family traditions or moral values," said Bangalore's Archbishop Bernard Moras. In New Delhi, a spokesman for the archdiocese said the youth wing in every archdiocese would be mobilised.
"We are responsible for these young people," he said. "We have to show them we care by giving them guidance and showing them the dangers of adultery and casual sex."
India's call centre industry, which has been growing by 60 per cent a year, is also under scrutiny over claims that criminal networks in India are trading British consumers' bank account details for huge profits.
The country's National Association of Software and Service Companies admits it is concerned about its reputation.
Conservatives revile call centres as decadent outposts of Western culture, and are just as concerned about the threat to India's moral reputation.

goodness, no! young people having sex!

There was a fat pig of an Italian woman who used to work for the Granada Rentals call centre who would prey on young men who worked at the stores. She even met up with a couple of them, who would then run for their lives (obviously).

Even worse; I used to sit opposite her and she was so fekkin' loud! She needed a slap if anyone did.