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She got 15 to 30 cents out of the two-dollars charged every hour. I guess psychics don't need to be able to do arithmetic. Nor understand the nature of being an independent contractor (I was one for years and knew exactly what I wasn't getting). Funny that she still insists that she'd "very psychic." You'd think the most elementary ability could show your future financial status. Now she sits at home burning green - the color of money -candles waiting for the court to load her up with cash.

A woman who spent years telling fortunes on a 900-number hot- line is suing the National Psychic Network, claiming the company broke the law by failing to pay her minimum wage and overtime.

"I was a sweatshop psychic," Diane London, a former Seattle-area resident who now lives in the San Francisco Bay area, writes in her autobiography.

Psychic sues national network

Richard Evans Lee
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I've known people who worked for those hotlines, and were trying to recruit others. There were NO guidelines of any kind other than "keep them on the phone." Another line was recruiting people to do "tarot readings." Those I knew who were working for them had never picked up tarot cards before getting on the phone. I think I'd feel much better about working a sex line, if I wanted to do phone work.

Posted by: Cynthia Armistead | September 7, 2004 12:15 PM

I don't know. Phone sex sounds so strenuous. But I'm sure it pays better than thirty cents an hour.

Posted by: Richard | September 7, 2004 1:49 PM

What makes me most curious is why would any psychic work a line for more than a month if she is only getting 15 to 30 cents a minute? You'd think after her first paycheck she'd wise up and see that her work was worth more than that and move on to another company, etc if she wasn't being paid enough... yet she stayed there for years and only complained after that long period of time... does that make any sense to anyone else?

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