Unexpected job offers arrive through opaque referral networks that mislead hopefuls

Evidence

Some gentleman from New York City contacted the Chuck Barris Production office looking for my contact info. Since they never gave out contestant’s numbers, the production office called me with his name and number and a message stating he had a job offer for me in Manhattan. That day I was working a temp job with a complicated switch board at a large Beverly Hills Law firm and couldn’t wait until my coffee break to return his call. For the next hour I drifted into a fantasy about what this job could be; perhaps something on Broadway. — Dolores DeLuce, Blow Jobs, 25

Categorization

• XREF: The fantasy-of-Broadway followed by dungeon offer parallels how informal networks garble intent — resonates with mistaken-parody incidents like the 1974 Golden Gate Park stunt. — connects to: Social networks disguised attention capture beneath promises of connection. — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 973; Empty networking reveals outsider status rather than building connections — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity,…, 203

Broader Connections

• Empty networking reveals outsider status rather than building connections #expands (0.82) — Alice E. Marwick, Status Update, 203
• Social networks disguised attention capture beneath promises of connection. #complicates (0.75) — Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants, 973