If ghost could be contacted and they could relay messages to other ghost or other people in distant locations, well, then you’ve got a long distance communication service.
The major problem would be that 100% of your employees would have major unresolved issues they obsess over and won’t shut up about (instead of the usual 80%.) Worse, every time one of the ghost had a personal epiphany, or someone completed some task for them in the mortal realm, the ghost “moves on” and “poof” there goes one of your com system nodes.
You’d probably need an anti-psychologist/chaplain on staff whose duty would be to keep the ghost angry and obsessive so’d they’d hand around. Of course, I’m pretty sure hat’s what most psychologist do anyway.
Probably it would pay to hire a bunch of unstable liberal arts grads who are stuck paying off tens of thousands of dollars in student loans for educations that are worthless outside of academia. Then decorate the place in black, dim the lighting and leave a lot of Sylvia Plath books laying around. That way, you wouldn’t have to worry about running out of bitter ghost.
And talk about your hard case bosses, “So your dead, big deal! You’ve still got a job to do. Stop whining! Why, in my day we died twice a week! Kids these days, grumble,grumble. ”
Sounds like the setup for a Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman team up novel. Apropos, since Douglas Adams is no longer with us.
long post… must concentrate… Ha.. “academia” sounds like “macadamia” man, I could go for a white-chocolate macadamia nut cookie… It’s almost Halloween… maybe somebody will bring cookies… don’t those ghosts look like the Peanuts gang in their Halloween costumes? Wonk-wah… wonk, wonk, wonk waaah… Douglas Adams…
“So she’s single?” Too soon?
I guess that really got his ghost… ha-HEY ha-HEY ha-HEY
I like how the ghost still has antennae, even though it looks like one of the ghosts from Pac Man.
And how hands pop out for gesturing. Ha!
And how it looks like the antennae are poking out of holes in a sheet.
If ghost could be contacted and they could relay messages to other ghost or other people in distant locations, well, then you’ve got a long distance communication service.
The major problem would be that 100% of your employees would have major unresolved issues they obsess over and won’t shut up about (instead of the usual 80%.) Worse, every time one of the ghost had a personal epiphany, or someone completed some task for them in the mortal realm, the ghost “moves on” and “poof” there goes one of your com system nodes.
You’d probably need an anti-psychologist/chaplain on staff whose duty would be to keep the ghost angry and obsessive so’d they’d hand around. Of course, I’m pretty sure hat’s what most psychologist do anyway.
Probably it would pay to hire a bunch of unstable liberal arts grads who are stuck paying off tens of thousands of dollars in student loans for educations that are worthless outside of academia. Then decorate the place in black, dim the lighting and leave a lot of Sylvia Plath books laying around. That way, you wouldn’t have to worry about running out of bitter ghost.
And talk about your hard case bosses, “So your dead, big deal! You’ve still got a job to do. Stop whining! Why, in my day we died twice a week! Kids these days, grumble,grumble. ”
Sounds like the setup for a Douglas Adams and Neil Gaiman team up novel. Apropos, since Douglas Adams is no longer with us.
long post… must concentrate… Ha.. “academia” sounds like “macadamia” man, I could go for a white-chocolate macadamia nut cookie… It’s almost Halloween… maybe somebody will bring cookies… don’t those ghosts look like the Peanuts gang in their Halloween costumes? Wonk-wah… wonk, wonk, wonk waaah… Douglas Adams…
I can’t be the only one who hoped Mitch was gonna say “Heroin overdose” for the COD. I thought Hedberg the second he said “Mitch”.
I think I would’ve laughed, then immediately felt bad.