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So.. summertime is here and the radio station I work at is busy... really busy. I'm a DJ, part time, no real following yet and I don't have my own show. Soo... the programming director of the sation calls me and asks if I am interested in making extra money. My reply is "As long as I don't have to do sexual favors."
Turns out the station mascot quit, they need a replacement pronto and the job pays $12.50 an hour. Would I mind taking the responsibility along with my normal work order? Hell no... so from now until whenever I am the official mascot for the radio station. This weekend alone I'll be making an extra $150 on the next check and all I have to do is hug people and were a frog suit. Hell of a deal no?

So, would you take a job like this if it was offered in suppliment to you normal job?

Hug people, huh?

I remember the old New Jersey Devils mascot (Slapshot, a hockey puck) got arrested for "hugging" ladies just a little too much... *shudder*

I personally wouldn't wear a frog suit for about £2.50 by my conversion-timates

and you have let yourself in for hell and broken shins:p

So, would you take a job like this if it was offered in suppliment to you normal job?

I spent two summers working in that same role

I would do it, but I am being paid a bit more for designing and testing electrical equipment.

I would do it, but I am being paid a bit more for designing and testing electrical equipment.

My typical salary is a whole $6 less than what I get for the mascot

For 12.50 an hour I'd do that full time.

I personally wouldn't wear a frog suit for about £2.50 by my conversion-timates

and you have let yourself in for hell and broken shins:p

12.50 USD = 6.33604 GBP
United States Dollars United Kingdom Pounds
1 USD = 0.506883 GBP 1 GBP = 1.97284 USD


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I personally wouldn't wear a frog suit for about £2.50 by my conversion-timates

and you have let yourself in for hell and broken shins:p

Actually, it's closer to 5.50 GBP. And my taking of it would depend on my financial situation at the time. At the moment, I'd take it in a heartbeat.

Damn you DCD! Also, my estimate was more what you'd actually get converting it at a bank or something.

How much do you make as a DJ?

Im guessing $6.50 from his/her second post.

You get paid to hug people? Awesome

You get paid to hug people?

All the hugs I've gotten from mascots feel so tawdry now.

I dressed up as Clifford the Big Red Dog for a bookstore once to fulfill a community service requirement in high school. I dressed up as Clifford the Big Red Dog once. There is nothing like a snotty little kid pulling your tail, screaming "Liar! Liar! It's a man! It's not Clifford!"

So, would you take a job like this if it was offered in suppliment to you normal job?
So long as the suit isn't too hot and stuffy, sure. I happen to like hugging people and generally making them happy, so it'd be a fun, easy additional job with lots of additional money.

Have they cleaned the suit since the last frog quit?

I'd do it for a weekend or two for fun but it's a bit lower than what I normally make per hour.

Since it's more than double what you normally make for what seems a much easier job, I'd say try to get it permanently.

KFROG?

yup, have before, but i didn't get anything extra ever my usual minimum wage, just extra hours.

Eh, where do you live?

I probably wouldn't do that if it's really hot, but 12.50 IS 12.50.

Your call.

I would do it for free!

also, those costumes are way hot, so wear minimal clothing underneath. ;)

I spent a summer as "Jerry the Moose" (BC Parks mascot) before starting university.

The kids were fine; it was their creepy dads that wigged me out. They wanted to hug waaay too much.

Goddamn that sounds so much better than my current job it isn't funny.

I used to do this for a living, as a Ninja Turtle mostly. I also was the Easter Bunny for a mall last year.

One of the best jobs ever-you'd be hard pressed to find a job where people hug you when you show up.

But melting inside that suit suck much. Other than that, cool.

I used to do this for a living, as a Ninja Turtle mostly. I also was the Easter Bunny for a mall last year.

One of the best jobs ever-you'd be hard pressed to find a job where people hug you when you show up.

But melting inside that suit suck much. Other than that, cool.

I was Chuck E. Cheese for a summer, and substitute mascot in high school.

I was Chuck E. Cheese for a summer, and substitute mascot in high school.

I feel bad for saying this to you, but I used to mess mercilessly with the Chuck E. Cheese guys when I was hired for a party there, because they didn't do it as often as I did, didn't have the same set of tricks I did, didn't have the same popular cartoon that I did, and most importantly, couldn't talk like I could. It was a lot of fun for me because it was something for extra for me to do during the thing.

But we live states away from each other so I never did it to you, so we're all good.

I dressed up as Clifford the Big Red Dog for a bookstore once to fulfill a community service requirement in high school. I dressed up as Clifford the Big Red Dog once. There is nothing like a snotty little kid pulling your tail, screaming "Liar! Liar! It's a man! It's not Clifford!"

Wait a second! Where you live crime is punished by having to dress up as cartoon characters and hang out with kids?

I think it would be too uncomfortable inside that suit to make it worth it.
Also, they're raising the minimum wage here in PA next month, so you'll make at least a little bit more than what you're making now as a DJ.

I feel bad for saying this to you, but I used to mess mercilessly with the Chuck E. Cheese guys when I was hired for a party there, because they didn't do it as often as I did, didn't have the same set of tricks I did, didn't have the same popular cartoon that I did, and most importantly, couldn't talk like I could. It was a lot of fun for me because it was something for extra for me to do during the thing.

But we live states away from each other so I never did it to you, so we're all good.

I had a lot of people that came in to bother me, I didn't really mind I figure if they were that hard up for entertainment......at least I was high right? LOL

what really bothered me was the freaking parents handing me screaming babies so they could take pictures.......I wanted to scream out "the freaking kid doesn't like me!!!!!" but like you said, I wasn't allowed to talk.

I personally wouldn't wear a frog suit for about £2.50 by my conversion-timates
Your conversion meter is broken?

12.50 USD = 6.33813 GBP

Your radio station mascot is a frog?

I can't wrap my mind around that.

So, would you take a job like this if it was offered in suppliment to you normal job?
No. I already work 57.5 hours a week.

I had a lot of people that came in to bother me, I didn't really mind I figure if they were that hard up for entertainment......at least I was high right? LOL

what really bothered me was the freaking parents handing me screaming babies so they could take pictures.......I wanted to scream out "the freaking kid doesn't like me!!!!!" but like you said, I wasn't allowed to talk.

Well, I didn't go in to mess with them, what usually happened was that I'd show up for the party, which I always thought was stupid-they where already at Chuck E. Cheese, they didn't need or even really want a Ninja Turtle there (I was eating into valuable arcade time). After being there for like 5 minutes the dude in the Chuck E. Cheese costume would show up and it always seemed like they didn't think it through, like they saw me and rushed to put on the costume and come out there without a plan. But I was a professional jackass in a costume and knew what I could do, and so I started messing with him (or her, I never knew).

And I totally agree on the screaming kid issue. In the Ninja Turtle costume if you put a baby in my arms all it sees is a big row of teeth and maybe a vague outline of a head just past them. What one year old wouldn't be terrified by that?

I spent almost three hours as the Easter Bunny winning over a little girl. Once I did, though, she wouldn't leave me.

So.. summertime is here and the radio station I work at is busy... really busy. I'm a DJ, part time, no real following yet and I don't have my own show. Soo... the programming director of the sation calls me and asks if I am interested in making extra money. My reply is "As long as I don't have to do sexual favors."

Well that was stupid...if you hadn't said that, you might be getting $15.00/hour.

I kid, I kid...

For 12.50 an hour I'd do that full time.

Ditto!

Down here, $12.50 an hour is a going rate for prostitutes to have sex with you.

*moves*

Howdy neighbor!

:p

Down here, $12.50 an hour is a going rate for prostitutes to have sex with you.

So yes, I'd wear the frogsuit.

Down here, $12.50 an hour is a going rate for prostitutes to have sex with you.

So yes, I'd wear the frogsuit.

Where do you live??

Cheapwhoresville:p

Where do you live??

Cheapwhoresville:p

Ashdod, Israel.

Prices for this stuff vary between 12.50 and 60 USD.

So, for $12.50 an hour you wear a hot sweaty costume and you have to hug complete stranger and snot nose little kids? Nooo thanks, I'm not the hugging the snot nose little kid type and I'd probably intentionally scare the kids, you know, to prepare them for life.

So, for $12.50 an hour you wear a hot sweaty costume and you have to hug complete stranger and snot nose little kids? Nooo thanks, I'm not the hugging the snot nose little kid type and I'd probably intentionally scare the kids, you know, to prepare them for life.

Wilgrove for Headmaster.

Wilgrove for Headmaster.

Ok! Umm Headmaster of what?

Ok! Umm Headmaster of what?

Random County Primary School.

Ashdod, Israel.

Prices for this stuff vary between 12.50 and 60 USD.

*books air tickets to Isreal*

Random County Primary School.

Ugh great, now I'm going to be stuck with snot nose brats forever.

"No Talking, no giggling, no coughing, no laughing, no noise of any kind or you'll visit the pain monster!"

Ahh, that's better.

Froggy101!

So.. summertime is here and the radio station I work at is busy... really busy. I'm a DJ, part time, no real following yet and I don't have my own show. Soo... the programming director of the sation calls me and asks if I am interested in making extra money. My reply is "As long as I don't have to do sexual favors."
Turns out the station mascot quit, they need a replacement pronto and the job pays $12.50 an hour. Would I mind taking the responsibility along with my normal work order? Hell no... so from now until whenever I am the official mascot for the radio station. This weekend alone I'll be making an extra $150 on the next check and all I have to do is hug people and were a frog suit. Hell of a deal no?

So, would you take a job like this if it was offered in suppliment to you normal job?

Umm I make that about £5 and bit of our English sterling. put on a frog suit for that. Shit no that would just about buy you a hotdog and a coke up town!

Your radio station mascot is a frog?

I can't wrap my mind around that.

Yeah.. the station is named Froggy, the mascot was a no brainer. Pretty much covers about 3/4 of Eastern PA.

Chuck E. Cheese. *shivers*

I used to work at a day camp as the field trip supervisor - I had to take different groups of kids to the same place each week, so I spent a week at Chuck E. Cheese. I had a headache for a month after that.

After the first couple of days I noticed that the rat was following me around the place. Everywhere I went, a huge, plush rodent followed, absolutely silently. Really started freaking me out, and I went out of my way to find places where it couldn't find me. Ends up good ol' Chuck was attracted to me (it was a female) and wanted to talk to me, but couldn't. The last day we were there she came out without the suit on and told me flat out.

It was a real shame - she was attractive, but the silent, rodent shaped shadow I had for that week just freaked me out WAY too much...

Wait a second! Where you live crime is punished by having to dress up as cartoon characters and hang out with kids?

No, some high schools and junior high schools force you to do community service. It's reeeeaaaallllyyyy stupid.

That's the kind of outfit that gets you punched in the balls by little kids at public fairs.

Chuck E. Cheese. *shivers*

I used to work at a day camp as the field trip supervisor - I had to take different groups of kids to the same place each week, so I spent a week at Chuck E. Cheese. I had a headache for a month after that.

After the first couple of days I noticed that the rat was following me around the place. Everywhere I went, a huge, plush rodent followed, absolutely silently. Really started freaking me out, and I went out of my way to find places where it couldn't find me. Ends up good ol' Chuck was attracted to me (it was a female) and wanted to talk to me, but couldn't. The last day we were there she came out without the suit on and told me flat out.

It was a real shame - she was attractive, but the silent, rodent shaped shadow I had for that week just freaked me out WAY too much...

A certain episode of CSI just came to mind...

For me, I have this thing about public humiliation: it's humiliating and I don't like it. Spending a workday in a frog suit falls into the humiliation category.

That's the kind of outfit that gets you punched in the balls by little kids at public fairs.

I don't see why they don't just add little metal plates to that part of the suit. Maybe with spikes.

I don't see why they don't just add little metal plates to that part of the suit. Maybe with spikes.
Such a protective device already exists. Those of us that have the right parts and some experience with physical activity appreciate the "cup".

I don't see why they don't just add little metal plates to that part of the suit. Maybe with spikes.

I've seen too many videos of mascots being punched in the nuts by little kids. I'm sure the parents would be upset if you put spikes in there.

So.. summertime is here and the radio station I work at is busy... really busy. I'm a DJ, part time, no real following yet and I don't have my own show. Soo... the programming director of the sation calls me and asks if I am interested in making extra money. My reply is "As long as I don't have to do sexual favors."
Turns out the station mascot quit, they need a replacement pronto and the job pays $12.50 an hour. Would I mind taking the responsibility along with my normal work order? Hell no... so from now until whenever I am the official mascot for the radio station. This weekend alone I'll be making an extra $150 on the next check and all I have to do is hug people and were a frog suit. Hell of a deal no?

So, would you take a job like this if it was offered in suppliment to you normal job?

Haven't read through any of this thread, but judging by your location I'd like to guess that you work for Froggy 101.

I'm not a fan of country, so I wouldn't know who you are. =P