i've worked in a call center for a few dozen products, the women got harassed a lot because there are idiots who don't get there is a difference between a woman selling erection pills and a woman willing to give you an erection. i sold other things, cookware, lawn equipment, but the sex pills calls were nightmares.

FYL, op. at least your mom thinks highly of you if she is bragging about you to her friends? I guess that's a bright side to the situation of there is one? haha

One of my uncles was a bus driver, and when I was younger and naive (and excited about learning new words), I would consistently and mistakenly brag to random strangers that he worked for an escort service.

call center agents are some of the worst people to walk this planet, YDI

Hmm. Sounds like she knows the difference but 'titled' it wrong when telling her friends. Hopefully if you tell her, she'll correct it next time she sees them. To some old-timers though, that's what it means. I believe I've heard my own mom use the term when referencing a call center as well.

Haha my mother did the same thing and when I asked her to stop she started calling me a "working girl"

That happened to me once. I was working the elections, and my little brother told my psychotic religious grandmother that I was working the "polls." She misunderstood and fit hit the shan as soon as I got home.

so that's what they're calling it these days