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Tired of Slavery, but want Cheap Labor? Try "Servants" Today!---'Servant Corps'

SilentScope001
26-03-2007, 05:49
Servants Corps, one of the few remaining capitalist companies in the Republic of SilentScope001 would like to present you this adverstiment.

Currently, slavery is on the decline, and for good reason. Slavery is immoral. But many lives will be disrupted, and countries will need to find cheap labor in order to sustain themselves and their empires. Machines are good, but sometimes, they may not be enough.

This is where Servants Corps come in. We do not provide slavery, we provide servants.

What is the difference between a servant and a slave?

A Servant is a person who WANTS to sell his labor cheaply. A slave, meanwhile, is forced to work cheaply. Usually, a servant wants to see new places, want to emigrate to other lands, and need good job training. These people are usually poor, but they are hard-working. They would like to put this stuff on their resume, and enjoy working very much.

A servant basically meets up with one of our specially trained advisors who will help the servant in coming up with a contract. This contract will outline how long a Servant will remain a Servant, and all the myrid beniefts he will get of being a Servant. Once the Servant enters the contract, he can leave the contract at any time...all he has to do is pay a token fee and refer some people to fill in his shoes. Contracts usually last for 1-5 years, and the Servants are allowed to move from place to place. There are also clauses that state that the Contractors who do use the Servant's 'assistance' has to treat them humanily and fairly...otherwise, the Servant's contract is null and void, and the Contractor may be faced with stiff fines from Servants Corps. Luckily, neither the Servants, nor the Contractors, would do such a thing, like breaking the contracts, since both are nice people...

It's a nice system, and we believe that this is the new step foward, away from the barbaric pratices of Slavery and into the new era of Servants.

Let us look at the Theebs Accord, the luckly accord that states that slavery is wrong and which all nations should adopt:

- The Theeb Accords -
Preamble
In response to the growing desire of a majority of nations and their citizenry for the universal abolition of slavery, the following accords and protocols were established by international agreement within the Vetakan City of Theeb. The following articles outline a series of five basic human rights all signatories to these accords accept and vow to act in accordance with:

We are for the full support of this. Slavery is immoral.

Article One
All human beings are born free and equal in dignity and rights. They are endowed with reason and conscience and should act towards one another in a spirit of brotherhood.

All servants are treated equally. They are the ones who are responsible in creeating the contracts, and can terminate the contract at any time. We treat the servants with respect and reason, and if the Servant does not want to work with us, they do not have to work with us. We adversite for Servants to come and work, we don't go and kidnap people and force them to do work, that's slavery!

Article Two
Everyone is entitled to all the rights and freedoms set forth in this Declaration, without distinction of any kind, such as race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status. Furthermore, no distinction shall be made on the basis of the political, jurisdictional or international status of the country or territory to which a person belongs, whether it be independent, trust, non-self-governing or under any other limitation of sovereignty.

We treat everyone equally. All people will be given the right to become a Servant, regardless of whomever he is. Did you know that about 3-4% of all Servants are sons and daughters of rich people who want to sight-see and experience hard labor? It's true!

Article Three
Everyone has the right to life, liberty and the security of person.

Guarranted in our contracts. Violation of these contracts are bad, indeed.

Article Four
No one shall be held in slavery or servitude; slavery and the slave trade shall be prohibited in all their forms.

Of course. This is not slavery, this is using Servants who willingly give up 1-5 years of their lives to help out others.

Article Five
Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, and to just and favourable conditions of work. Everyone who works has the right to just and favourable remuneration ensuring for himself and his family an existence worthy of human dignity. Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay.

Exactly. Being a Servant is like having a job. Jobs aren't considered slavery, so Servants aren't slavery as well.
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So...if you want to contact our company, please leave a note here. We have currently about 100,000 Servants...but if we get enough demand, we can increase this furthermore. We are hoping to branch out into other countries, so that we can help recurit more servants out.

Currently, you can rent out 1 year's work of a Servant for $5000. Most of this money will go to the Servant, while the rest is transferred to the Corps as profit. If you buy out more Servants' work in bulk, you can get discounts, but each servant will be paid equally, meaning we take the loss in profit, to enocurge sales.

EDIT: (Price raised to be a bit more realistic.)
EDIT 2: Editied the pricing so that servants don't get paid more than actual workers. :)
Groznyj
26-03-2007, 05:55
OOC:

Laughing My Fucking Ass Off.
*High Fives*
SilentScope001
26-03-2007, 16:29
*bump*
The Ctan
26-03-2007, 22:08
OOCness: Try servants today! Heelarious.

It seems an appropriate juncture to mention my guest-worker companies, which typically operate in a similar fashion. Though the money’s much better, and typically, it involves a fair degree of training (not least because one is required to learn Sindarin) and longer terms. With free healthcare (right up to and including cosmetic stuff) provided by the profits, both for those actually involved, and in the nation supplying the servants. Along with education and entertainment (promagulating one’s worldview is of course, often beneficial) concerns in the providing nation.

So if you want to say anyone in particular is a customer, well, I may be considered an endless well of demand in that quarter.
SilentScope001
26-03-2007, 22:17
So if you want to say anyone in particular is a customer, well, I may be considered an endless well of demand in that quarter.

Servant Corps: Excellent. Would it be okay to open up a branch at your nation as well, to register as one of your guest-worker companies? We always like expanding our enterprises.

(We will be quite willing to set up the terms of the arrangment for the transport of servants. Renting out a month's worth of labor for a Servant is $50, so if you can specify how many Servants you need and for how long you want them, that would be great. Sometimes, servants usually renew their contracts, which is always a good thing to have.

I do wonder though if we have to deal with your nation directly, or just with the many myrid companies that operate over there.)
The Ctan
26-03-2007, 22:49
OOCness: It'd be interacting with companies on my end. Opening a branch would be pointless. And $50 is ... far too low. Customers would insist on paying more.
SilentScope001
26-03-2007, 23:05
OOCness: It'd be interacting with companies on my end. Opening a branch would be pointless. And $50 is ... far too low. Customers would insist on paying more.

OOCness: You are probraly right. I better increase the price...any ideas on a reasonable price for 'servants'?
The Ctan
26-03-2007, 23:12
Weelll. Sunset's calculator suggests that your GDP per capita is around $9000 P.A. So, something below that, I'd expect.
The Gupta Dynasty
27-03-2007, 00:22
OOC: Really, really funny. I'd like to compliment you on this. I also read your "bacteria rights" one and laughed nearly as much. You have a real gift for parody.
Balkan Peoples
27-03-2007, 00:49
OOC: Laughing my fucking ass off.

If only I'd thought of that earlier today..... :D
SilentScope001
27-03-2007, 06:18
Weelll. Sunset's calculator suggests that your GDP per capita is around $9000 P.A. So, something below that, I'd expect.

Alright, will edit it to be $5000 then. Thanks.

OOC: Really, really funny. I'd like to compliment you on this. I also read your "bacteria rights" one and laughed nearly as much. You have a real gift for parody.

(OOC: Thanks. :) )
Eralineta
27-03-2007, 06:21
Alright, will edit it to be $5000 then. Thanks.



(OOC: Thanks. :) )

Should be 5k a year :P not month. The 'servant' would make $60,000 then. Lol!
SilentScope001
31-03-2007, 02:18
*bump*
SilentScope003
04-12-2007, 06:18
SilentScope003, as a successor to SilentScope001 hereby bumps this thread to announce that Servant Corps is still alive and operational.
Allanea
04-12-2007, 12:12
I suggest you charge something like $10,000 per year. Then you pay the 'servant' $5000 and make an epic profit.
SilentScope003
24-12-2007, 01:01
*bump*
Praetonia
24-12-2007, 01:02
Isn't this just a temping agency? Why does it merit a thread in II?
SilentScope003
24-12-2007, 01:07
OOC: It was a remenant of the whole Slavery trend in II a while back, in which people were ready to attack anyone even remotely having slaves. This corporation was made to help convert people from using slaves to using 'servants'. I just bump it, likely to see if there can be any new response, but if not, eh.
Romanar
24-12-2007, 01:09
Well, considering the current UN resolution at vote, the demand should be going up.
Jufonce
24-12-2007, 01:20
Yeah, the demand will probably go up. So why not make the profit higher? I would do it before anyone else started a new "servant" company and got into a monopoly. I know this is a serious noobish question, but is this in-game or just for role play?
Praetonia
24-12-2007, 01:38
My point is, every country will have thousands of temping agencies like this, most of which are more competently run.
SilentScope003
24-12-2007, 01:41
(OOC: To be honest, few people who use slaves are actually going to look on II...or even care what the UN says. Any new demand I get from it will likely be pretty low, and will be treasured very greatly. As Praetonia says, this may very well be duplicated already.

And since I currently got very few customers already, I'm leaving the price as it currently is.

I know this is a serious noobish question, but is this in-game or just for role play?

Roleplay.)
Jufonce
24-12-2007, 01:56
One more question, on that NSwiki thing, how do you make a page. I read that article on how to start one, but it just pulls up some stupid "page can not be opened" page!
Romanar
24-12-2007, 02:20
One more question, on that NSwiki thing, how do you make a page. I read that article on how to start one, but it just pulls up some stupid "page can not be opened" page!

The NSwiki is currently read-only. Hopefully it will be back in the not-too-distant future.
Jufonce
24-12-2007, 02:39
So it is "down?"
Romanar
24-12-2007, 03:36
So it is "down?"

Yup! :( As I understand it, the guy running it tried to upgrade to a more reliable server, thought he had done so but ran into major storage problems. Naturally, that happened just before he had major RL activity. I'd guess the holidays aren't helping.