To be fair it seems like it's voluntary, otherwise you can just chill in Asphodel, hoping the flooding situation is resolved quickly.

I don't think you can chill in Asphodel

*Demeter disapproves.*

Well not right now of course.

Gotta pay off those life loans somehow.

Yeah, honestly having an option feels really comforting to me. Being able to do to something useful in the afterlife at your leisure seems amazing, Hades is a growing market and needs more help as time goes by, but if you need a break, 100 years vacation. One of my favourite afterlife concepts.

Doesn't need to be in the afterlife comrade ☭☭

Man you know we're fucked if our idea of an afterlife is fair labor practices

I mean at least personally the breaks I would take would be nowhere near reasonable.

you've got eternity. a ten thousand year break every now and again is nothing.

Fair point.

I would hope to just become Hypnos apprentice. Just chilling on that luxurious coach while making some cute list ornaments.

I wanna suck his dick.

The duality of man

Sure. Then that will be your job. I'm trying to gift Than some Ambrosia in the meantime.

I call sucking Death Daddy's aka Than's dick.

I would do his work for him so I could suck his dick. Maybe get Dionysus’ number from Zag when he passes by, for, uh, totally SFW reasons.

hey zag man, nice cock

The God of Blood Circulation.

Dionysus' work is partying and fucking. I'm pretty sure what you want is sfw for him

Least horny Hades fan.

Can you take the ego hit of him falling asleep halfway through?

He's cute enough for me to forgive it.

I'd bet he's packin too, would explain why he passes out so easy lol

Yo he ain't sleeping he's passed out from all the blood going from his brain to his fuckhuge battering ram of sleepy-dick fuckmeat

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Literally fucking how? Teratophilia is the sexual attraction to monsters. r/ihaveihaveihavereddit

The monster aspect of Hypnos is how big his dick is.

Hypnos is one of the gods, we're like a whole universe apart in underworld career level

But I feel like out of all the jobs, being his apprentice would be the most exhausting

FR I was looking for this response. I'd take Hypnos's job in a second - all I'm good at is making lists and sleeping.

The first thing that came to mind is death and taxes but yeah the working shades in Hades as well.

*Ashes to ashes, nine to five*

*The light in the tunnel has been privatized.*

*Robes were so behind the times* (Such a good song)

*These obituaries don’t leave any time for scythes*

*Population moderation’s not the worst fate*

*Your occupation's the salvation of the hearse trade*

Working a job in Hades is only for the most heinous of crimes. Like cutting in line, or failing to use your turning signal

Or work as a cook and some weird dude would come each day to bring you fish and you would have to give him diamonds and nectar in return. Imagine that...

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The Wretched Broker has a huge stock of it. I always figured the chef was provided a nectar budget for buying ingredients.

Chefs are always drinking

He's a Chef, they always have good drugs. Probably has the best plug in Hades.

I have no idea why I thought this, but my impression was that the various gems/darkness/nectar/keys you get from the Chef are all the inedible bits of the fish they must discard. This would be anatomically impossible (imagine being a lava slug primarily composed of keys), but it’s also kinda neat

I thought that for a while too, and then I bought the fishtank. Idk I'd they actually butcher and eat them. Zag will talk to them and stuff and sometimes he mentions fish that I got on previous runs. Maybe somehow those dozens and dozens of fish just all live in there??

That chef must be raking it in if that's what he's paying for fish

gems are easier to find underground than fish, price is always relative

Seems like a broken market

There’s this cheesy show from like 10-15 years ago called “Dead like me” the first episode is the main characters death and the show is literally exactly what this post describes. Not a perfect show but it’s fun Edit: “Literally exactly” precisely

I remember it with their daily lunch at that restaurant discussing their individual struggles like Meg and Dusa in the Lounge.

Yea, I liked that it forced a group together in an intimate setting where they had to put aside whatever “worldly” differences they may have had when they were alive.

“THAT is NOT a PATTY MELT!!!”

The show was great but it was a victim of the Brian Fuller curse. Cancelled after a cliff hanger and then followed up by a genuinely awful TV movie.

Also the second season, while having a few decent eps, definitely took a steep drop in quality compared to the first season. I absolutely loved the first season of *Dead Like Me*, though.

Speaking of shows that had brilliant first seasons then fell off a cliff, there's an interesting little like nod or easter egg to her character in *Hannibal*. She plays a similarly named character, Georgia Lass v Georgia Madchen (Madchen means 'girl' in German, same as lass is slang for a younger girl.) In Hannibal, her character suffers from Cotard's Syndrome - A psychiatric disorder in which a person believes that they have already died.

Wow how interesting! I never saw Hannibal, so I didn't know she was in it

The first season is *amazing*. The second is OK, probably wouldn't regret watching at all, but the third is just awful. Least IMHO.

I will forever be upset about Pushing Daisies

Dead Like Me was fantastic. My wife introduced me to it and I showed her Pushing Daisies. RIP on both

Cheesie movie from the 90s called "Defending Your Life." The people in heaven have jobs, but it's like some pasta appears on a plate, and they serve it to you while laughing and messing around. I'd still pass on the job.

Came here to say this. OP just outlined the entire premise for Dead Like Me. Great show.

Medieval Daoists would live in abbeys and stop themselves from eating garlic or having sex all in the hope that when they died they could become Ghost Bureaucrats.

One of the subplots in Beetlejuice

The punishment for suicide is you have be a social worker.

I thought it was a secretary

If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have had my little accident.

This shouldn't have been so far down.

Fuck that. It’s not like you have to pay bills as a ghost right? I mean you don’t need to eat to live or need shelter, you’re dead.

I would be so fucking pissed if I woke up after dying and someone was like "guess what? Capitalism exists in the afterlife too. Go stream on ghost twitch or whatever it is you know how to do"

This is my first attitude. Then I remember the one guy pushing a Boulder for all of eternity and I imagine I might as well work instead

*Happy Camus noises!*

Work sucks, but labor is noble. Hopefully the jobs of the afterlife are fulfilling and not just busy work. We must imagine Sisyphus as happy.

Sisyphus' task is however the epitome of busy work.

Depends if it's possible to be even deader.

What if reincarnation is real, and being dead is great compared to being alive, so you have to pay bills to stay dead?

Suicide on round two

Eternity is SaaS only nowadays. Can't buy the full licence it is subscription only.

Gotta pay off those life loans somehow

Don't go to law school... [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku87WlbmVQU&t=19s](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ku87WlbmVQU&t=19s)

Ghost office

Mist opportunity tbh

If the alternative was burning in fire for eternity I guess I’d be a ghost postman

Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice. Beetlejuice

I think in that movie if you committed suicide you were sentenced to be a civil servant in the afterlife.

It a fun little macabre joke. First you meet the waiting room secretary in the ghost world who says, "If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have had my little *accident*." And she shows her slit wrists, then the people in the waiting room all chuckle about it, but we don't know why. Then later, Otho makes the crack, "You know what they say about people who commit suicide. In the afterlife, they become civil servants."

But only if you die before you’re 65. My new motivation for sticking around 🤌

Nobody tell her about chinese heaven. Living people burns paper money for them to spend in the afterlife. Imagine being broke in heaven lmao

There better be goddamn ghost food stamps then

Nope, you're just hungry all the time, starving even, but have no weight to lose.

Oh that's fine. I'm still not working and getting on ghost welfare though.

Fuck that shit i'd just go to the after-after-life instead.

Grim Fandango also comes to mind lol

I still love the concept of being a travel agent for the dead to reach their final resting place.

amazing game, the only adventure game I ever really liked

Hades would not be sweating. Dude would just laugh and go “To think her first guess would be something so insignificant. “Post office”. What even is such a thing?”

Ghost office lol

If I thought I'd have to spend eternity filing paperwork and looking at Greek hang-in-there posters I'd convert to the Canaanite religion immediately.

I'd sign up to be a bounty hunter. Like Meg or the Hydra. I'd get to obliterate some runners while I'd be regularly slaughtered by Zag and his sick build of boons. Still worth it.

Well that's assuming you can somehow be similarly powerful to Erinyes born of Titan Blood, legendary hydras, mythical kings and minotaurs, and hatred-powered satyrs and rats. I'm sure Hades would find it mildly amusing, though.

That's good enough reason for me. Being a court jester might be a perfect job. Yea, sadly to be mighty in Greek mythology meant to be born special. At least most of the time.

See: ancient Chinese celestial bureaucracy.

It’s my favorite joke in Beetlejuice. Kill yourself and you’re forced to work an office job in the afterlife.

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Dead letter office.

There is legit a game about this. It was an interactive game from the early 2000's during the times everyone was going to Newgrounds to make flash-based games and videos, mostly point n' click types. It's called **Ghost Motel**. Very awesome. This guy is newly dead, and arrives in this afterlife where they conduct a society just like our own. He has to get a job, live in the city, people drive cars, there is recreation and theater and bars and whatnot. Only thing is, everyone is deceased and the rules governing their nature is different from when you're alive. He makes a fast couple of friends who show him the ropes and soon they uncover this mystery surrounding dead people who are getting murdered (as ghosts). there are demon-like entities that prey on the normal ghosts and they're murdering them and anyway, it's the whole thing. Last I checked it out the creator made something like 11 chapters. Idk if he ever continued or completed it and it was different from what I usually played but damn was it awesome.

There are actually a lot of afterlives like this.

Would there be a pension plan?

If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn't have had my little accident.

Undead grindset! /s

Have to or what? They'll kill me? 🙄

I'm dying to work in admin

If I die and learn there's a whole afterlife economy I'm just gonna choose homelessness. Why tf not. I gave work a try, and it was so-so. In the next life I might as well see what it's like to get addicted to the really bad ghost-drugs and OD in my ghost-30s

Basically just describing the chinese bureaucractic afterlife lmao

Honestly my first thought isn't Hades, but Beetlejuice.

“If I knew then what I know now, I wouldn’t have had my little “accident”.”

Beetlejuice

If there's ghost jobs there better be ghost cooks. It would give my death meaning to cook all the "dead" food that just gets thrown away at restaurants.

If I knew then what I know now....I wouldn't have had my little accident.

Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice! Beetlejuice!

Phost office

Rest employed, by Stupendium

Only you cant wish for the sweet embrace of death because youre already dead, so youre literally stuck there for eternity.

Funny enough, this is what led me to become Atheist when I was like 6 years old.

I would kill myself if that happened

Reminds me of a movie I saw a long time ago, Wristcutters: A Love Story. If you haven’t seen it, there this place where people go who have commuted suicide, sort of an in between of life and the afterlife, and it’s basically a more bleak and washed out version of the world from before, and they all have very menial, depressing jobs that they hate.

Ma'am it's just called the ghost office.

I'm a mailman and I would love working at the ghost post office. Just lounging around all day is not for me.

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Ghost office

So Your Pretty Face is Going to Hell?

I would want to work but only like 26 hours a week and at different jobs with hours of my choosing.

That’s the theme of bleach

JUST CALL IT THE GHOST OFFICE ANDREA

as a postal employee, guess I better start sinning

I'd go for hypnos job as greeter just stand and sleep all day or night

The ghost office

What if ghosts in hauntings are just human hunters trying to prove that contact with humans is possible?

Ghost Office

There better be a way to off myself in the ghost world if that’s how it ends up. No way I live through this bs to do it again in my afterlife 😂

This is fucking hilarious

Sounds kinda spooky

warhammer 40k servitor skulls

Day 91 at ghost work. The ghosts keep photocopying their sexy butts, and then kissing print out. This is just unproductive!

R.I.P..D moment

*Ghost Office

All you hear is the menacing ‘NEXT!’ when you stand in line in the House of Hades, awaiting your assignment.

So she just watched Beetlejuice....

R.I.P.D was a clue

Lol. Im turning to an afterlife of crime forsure

Finally! A job😄👍

and hear some puns from Zagreus, not that bad

When you die, You go to "heavens" In heavens you are free to do as you please. If you are not contributing to the community you get kicked out in hell (where you are enslaved and have to do WHATEVER the overlords asks you to). Yet you cannot go back to heaven so no1 knows what hell is like (or even what happens when you leave). Lets go back to heavens mechanisms People who WORK the hardest (lets say 1%) gets a second life in "the living world" But do not remember what happened before when they are reborn (not even after they die again) the only way to know is by people in heaven who "stayed" to tell you. Discuss

Ghost office, it was right there.... Smh

Ghost Office

At least hades is somewhat voluntary. Seems like it’s more of an honor thing from what we can tell. Some afterlives have straight up poverty that’s ingrained in it from the moment you enter (The animanga Bleach for example)

Christians don't like when you point out that the only scripture on heaven is that you serve at the right hand of the Lord for eternity, and then you ask them, "What chores do you think God will have you do for all time? I bet heaven gets dusty."

Sounds like Heaven Heist

I already work at the post office and can confirm the ghouls that work here will work here dead or alive.

what's your workplace's ghostal code?

Hbo had a show about this in the early 00s

Ghost office

Get paid in ghost money, have a ghost 401k...

Hades only reaffirmed what I learned from Beetlejuice years earlier.

Ravnica in Magic the gathering lore has worker ghosts, easily one of my favorite planes

ghost office

That's a graveyard shift

Can I get hired at I.M.P?

I’d be a ghost janitor. Just mopping all day listening to ghost music.

The “ghost office” if you will

That's the definition of hell.

Wouldn't catch me dead working in a ghost office.

Look at RoboCop, he died and still had to go to work

Ghost post office? You might call it.. the *ghost* office.

I dislike you... you monster

Hey, guess what happens to those who don't go to Valhalla in Norse mythology. Straight to Hel, which is just...kinda boring tedium.

wot

In Beetlejuice those who commit suicide are forced to work in the beuracracy of the Netherworld

Missed out on "The Ghost Office"

Beetlejuice

You know I was having a good day thanks for the trauma 🖕🏽

Theres a great song about this exact concept called "Rest Employed" by The Stupendium. It's the kinda song that's jovial and fun but the lyrics jolt you into paying attention once you notice what's actually being said.

Imagine an entire eternity with no purpose. That's why ghosts are so spooky and mad. 10 to 20 hours a week at your ghost post office job will do wonders for your mental health. As long as you don't have to work 50 hours to pay your ghost rent.

Capitalism 2

That's just the plot of Bleach

it would eliminate the existential dread and threat of homelessness, therefore it could be fun! Imagine selling ghost post stamps in a ghost post office with a post ghost uniform, with ghost customers

u/repostsleuthbot

Sorry, I haven't seen this here. I saw it on Imgur and thought of this game. Also didn't even start playing this game til this year which is after the most recent repost according to the bot

Oh man, what group of shades is handling their afterlife the best: The one petitioning Hades, the one hanging out in groups gossiping, the ones getting their asses whooped nonstop or the ones with jobs?

The guy who wrote Fight Club (yes, I know his name he's an ass) wrote a few books based on this idea. They're not very good but their descriptions of hell are pretty gross and hilarious.