A thought I had: Ghosts in the service industry

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2003-11-26 02:22pm

Some time ago I was watching the movie the 6th sense and it occurred to me that Bruce's character still performed his job as a child psychiatrist despite his..ah disability (the one we aren't told about till the end). The kid was more sociable and more accepted at the end of the film and it can be traced back to Bruce's presence. So I was thinking that "ghosts" could still be used as workers in informational/service jobs. I was wondering at what the consequences would be to utilizing the ghosts in that movie in this fashion- both social (public reaction) and economical (how would it effect it).

One thing that came to mind was the fact that ghosts exist as troubled souls who need to accomplish something or learn that they are dead. An effective workforce of "ghosts" could only be maintained by withholding that knowledge and/or keep them form accomplishing their task.

SyntaxVorlon · Post by **SyntaxVorlon** » 2003-11-26 02:56pm

That is the scariest concept I have EVER heard of. A telemarketer it's impossible to kill anyway.

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2003-11-26 03:40pm

SyntaxVorlon wrote:That is the scariest concept I have EVER heard of. A telemarketer it's impossible to kill anyway.

That's what we'd have the Ghostbusters for.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2003-11-26 04:25pm

Uraniun235 wrote:That's what we'd have the Ghostbusters for.

No! that would create sympathy for them, just let them know they are dead and or allow them to close the loose ends and POOF! the troublemakers are gone, and the ghost agency gets brownie points for freeing a soul from anguish.

Anyways, when I said information/service job I was thinking more along the lines of teachers and psychiatrists: ergo jobs that require skill and training thats expensive to lose. Tele marketing could be done by sufficiently advanced computers.

PrinceofLowLight · Post by **PrinceofLowLight** » 2003-11-26 04:30pm

Shouldn't this be in Fantasy?

Frank Hipper · Post by **Frank Hipper** » 2003-11-26 05:43pm

Well, Beetlejuice gave us the precedent for suicides being civil servants in the afterlife.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2003-11-26 05:53pm

Frank Hipper wrote:Well, Beetlejuice gave us the precedent for suicides being civil servants in the afterlife.

eh..?