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This is a place to share greentexts and witness the confounding life of Anon. If you're new to the Greentext community, think of it as a sort of zoo with Anon as the main attraction.

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Anon works the phones (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 2 years ago by Early_To_Risa@sh.itjust.works to c/greentext@sh.itjust.works

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[–] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 43 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Op working for a scammy phone sales company actually ending up reducing the senior suicide rate

[–] Apytele@sh.itjust.works 40 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Honestly just paying people $25/h to literally just do this would actually do some great things for the mental health crisis. The most you would need to do is maybe throw in an 8hr "mental health first aid" class and give them a line to refer out to if the person expresses anything more severe than a passive death wish. I would totally support my tax dollars paying for this on a WIDE scale.

Edit/btw: the official term is a "warm line" as opposed to a "suicide hotline" for people who aren't in crisis but just need to talk to another human for a bit, possibly to even help avoid a crisis developing in the first place.

[–] 50MYT@aussie.zone 6 points 2 years ago

Sorry to bother you (great movie, worth a watch) on steroids.

"Yeah I lost my job again, so back onto the phones"

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