Something completely different

Now this is a brilliant idea!

I run a technical helpdesk. It is a suitably geeky job with predominantly nice interactions with lots of lovely estate agents. No really – they are much maligned. I really like estate agents, especially the ones signed up for our property sites. The fact that they pay my wages is purely co-incidental.

Anyway, there have been ideas floating about that I could set up a helpdesk on the plinth. It would be a great bit of advertising for the company, and it would be amusing to have a foldaway chair and table, little laptop with network dongle to dial into work, and a mobile to call agents and fix their problems. It is taking work with me and turning it into part of the art, but what the hell – this is supposed to represent the population of the UK, and work is what most of us do for a sizable chunk of our times.

There is, possibly understandably, a bit of nervousness about the idea in certain quarters. The agents may not want to be discussed in public (there are microphones on the plinth), the company may not want to be associated with someone who could potentially decide that doing a streak as part of the “performance” suddenly feels like a really good idea. I am not likely to get my kit off, but I could if I wanted to!

So how about this – I get a pay as you go sim, charge the phone, make a sign along the lines of “Plinth Helpdesk – 07xxxxxxxxx” and sit up there waiting for the calls.

It is so simple and rather excellent. It is different, it is representative of what I do as a job and I can see it amusing me enormously.

As long as I don’t get someone who should be calling Samaritans. That would be bad.

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