MomSourcing: Outsource Your Mother's Day Phone Call

Want to wish your mom a happy Mother's Day this Sunday, but can't be bothered? Outsource it to mom-sourcing.co.in.

* Yes, the site is a joke.

• [Anonymous]

  How I envy people, who can fulfill their Mother’s Day obligations with a simple phone call…

• [yerbamatte]

  Hey this is great! I’m at my Mom’s place at the moment, and I can’t call her from here, so I guess I’ll have to get someone else to do it.

• [danturner]

  Let’s all of us go out and pay a homeless person a dollar to call a random person on the street ugly. Sure, it’s not very funny as this but at least it’s as callous towards someone’s economic need. Did the call center workers have a choice as to whether or not to be on this contract?

  15 seconds of light-hearted fun for you, at least an eight hour shift of calls where probably 1 out of 3 is going to be the worker making someone uncomfortable, confused, or hurt. That’s a crappy thing to pay people to do.

  Disclaimer: I listened to the sample and laughed. But then I thought about it for more than 2 seconds.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  Sense of humor – ur doin it rong.

• [danturner]

  I must have missed the part of your comment where you pointed out what was wrong with my argument before you called me humorless.

• [Zan]

  They need a better website that is viewable on a netbook (1024×600) screen. I know scrollbars are so web 1.0, but breaking browsers isn’t cool.

• [Anonymous]

  Hilarious for your mother to think somebody cared.

  It would work if you actually cared and had a quick follow-up call to say gotcha.

  If you’re typically lax, then this is just cruel.

• [Antinous / Moderator]

  They missed a big opportunity here. You should be able to pick the profile of the caller. My mother would have been thrilled to get a Mother’s Day call from a physicist who loves sports.

• [Anonymous]

  My mother is the type who would (hopefully) find this very amusing. I just have to hope that she actually answers the phone.

• [jowlsey]

  If I only knew what time they’d call, so I could call shortly afterwords, I’d be all for it.

• [Anonymous]

  That would not be Mom Sourcing unless the biz is staffed by moms

• [x99901]

  I signed up my friend’s mom.

• [Anonymous]

  I saw the ad on a casting website a few weeks ago looking for people who can do accents to do mother’s day phone calls. Fear not, danturner, these people are getting paid pretty well.

• [Anonymous]

  Maybe this isn’t for everyones mom but my mother just got her call and she thought it was hysterical! I love my mom!

• [Squood]

  They called while my mom was out and left quite a gem on her answering machine. She was wished a magical day of enjoyment. It’s a wonderful keepsake that she will play for her visitors time and time again.

  She laughed her ass off, but she would have been pissed if I didn’t call her myself. It was a great service, and made everyone’s day.

• [Anonymous]

  LOL! Just signed up my mother-in-law.

• [Anonymous]

  Amazing. Great Idea… This bag of Vapor is in your Honor!

• [IamInnocent]

  This could go so many ways: like hiring impersonators (great demand for Barry Manilows); maybe have another bitter old lady to complain in chorus about their ungrateful son (it fits)?

• [yerbamatte]

  Niceness. My mother thought it was hilarious. Me with a Chinese accent!?! Fun idea. They even made calls to Canada. Thanks for the tip Xeni.

• [Thankfully Simple]

  Aaaahh! I only half think it is hilarious because I am the crazy lady who started a thank you note writing service, so now you can outsource those….

  Okay, it is 100% hilarious.

  My thank you note writing service blog is NOT a joke – thank you note writing service blog.

  Love Boing Boing – check it out daily on my yahoo homepage to see what is new & crazy out there.

• [Anonymous]

  Lol. Mom’s getting an outsourced call from my brother. This site is great for those of us looking to escilate intra-familial conflict.