When I worked for Gateway back in 1999/2000 Victoria Secrets had a call center right next to ours. Trust me. They had some very hot women that worked there. There where also a few very hot women who worked for Gateway as well who wore those nice little headsets.

I wish there was some good looking ones in my Call Center.

@NotYou007: That's because we can tell just by talking to them. ;-)

So we have booth babes and now headset hotties. What a world. Now if only the support folks at MozyHome would reply to my email from last night, I can find out why my daily backup job is almost a GB in size.

The only industry left in America is stock photography.

@Trencher93: All of the women pictures are actually Dutch.

@aerick79: At my call center there was the occasional hottie, but they didn't usually last long...come to think of it, NO ONE usually last long there.

I wonder if these women are aware of how much their images is used. Do they get royalties for every page view, like a 1/2 cent for every page view or something?

They have GOT to know what the pictures are used for, right?

I'm too sexy for my headset.. too sexy for my headset. So sexy it hurts.

You do know that they are all stock photos, right?

iStockPhoto has thousands of these: [bit.ly]

What always bothers me about these pictures is not the fact that the women are hotties. It's the headsets! They have the most amazing, high-tech headsets that look like they actually work. When I used to work as a CSR, we had crappy headsets that only covered one ear, with ratty foam covers for the ear and mouthpiece. Sometimes the mouthpiece thing would fall off, or they were impossible to position so the caller could hear you properly.

@Hohoemi: My foam cover was covered in makeup when I got it, so I took it off and found tons of hair wrapped around the ear piece. BARF!

Now if only they could be eating sandwiches... www.skinnygirlseatingsandwiches.com

@I Love New Jersey: Noooo, you don't say?!

Heh, I bet they are wondering why they are getting all of the page hits all of a sudden.

@Hohoemi: Are you kidding? Most of those look like they're about to fly a 747 or something.

Not only are most customer service reps shown on web sites and in ads amazingly good looking, they often are seated in lavish offices when their workspace is also shown. I have not seen a cramped old metal desk or dark cubicle with no windows shown once.. which is the reality.

@dragonfire81: You seem to have lasted long enough to notice that trend... Get out while you still can!

At the website for the company I work for, all of the "models" are actual employees - even the ones in the headsets, smiling all customer service-ly. It's refreshing.

Oi, how revolting. Being hot a helpful is how CSRs at front desks, coffee shops, and libraries get themselves a stalker. Please see psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com for why this site creeps me out.

@Trencher93: I misread that as "The only industry left in America is stock pornography." Oops.

I don't see the "Gone wild" thing but maybe "Women of Customer Service" is a possibility at Playboy. They exploit almost every other group of women out there, why should CSRs be any different. LOL

@BytheSea: Why don't you just tell us here.

i work in a canadian government call centre. there are many many hot women working here (myself included, naturally) and hot men too. not sure why that would be the case, since the majority of the hiring is done sight-unseen to eliminate any bias.

funny, but some callers simply assume we are hot based on our voices... not a reliable hotness indicator! i've had to turn down a few marriage (and other) proposals lol.

Would you buy the product if the model looked like the Wicked Witch of the West? I can just see Carls Jr. featuring Joan Rivers eating a hamburger.

I worked in the white collar sweatshops..I mean call centers for years. When I first started in 1991, there were lots of hotties! But as America has grown fatter, so have the hotties. I think most of the hotties in the ads are professional models who don't actually answer phone calls. A little false advertising there, ya know. Investigate that, Consumerist!

DOWn, baby, DOWn!

@koreanforrabbit: Mine too. It's one of the things I really appreciate about my company - it's nice to be able to say to people who know where I work "Oh yeah, that's Christina, she sits three seats down from me and handles our affiliate program."

@canuck: I think it has to do with demographic. The people who apply to work in call centres are usually young, potentially with a lesser education (depending on the type of call centre) or working to pay for the education, or possibly recent immigrants. All of which may correlate to slightly higher likelihoods of hotness. (Younger= possibly hotter than older, lesser education= maybe thought they could coast on looks alone, recent immigrants= whole exotic thing. YMMV, depending on what you personally consider hot.)

Or I could be talking out my ass, which is just as likely.

@I Love New Jersey: WHAAAAAAAAAT?????

@canuck: Cheers! I also work at a Canadian gov't call centre.

@thelushie: Cuz I was faffing off at work and didn't have time to go to the site.

There's a few, but here's a good one: [psychoticlettersfrommen.blogspot.com] called "Customer Disservice." See the replies for a score of other women chiming in with their retail horrors.

@joshuadavis: Maybe I'm burned out on working in corporate culture but I'm so tired of looking at this guy's pictures: [www.istockphoto.com]