Survive the shift at Nimbus Telecom — a call center where the customers are unreasonable, the metrics are merciless, and your floor supervisor Rajeev is always watching.
The Job
Answer calls. Verify identities. Handle complaints, billing disputes, and accidental upgrades. Every caller has a mood, a patience meter, and a story. Most of them are lying about at least one part of it.
- Fully voiced call engine — real recorded voice lines for every caller type, routed through a telephone EQ chain
- Multi-factor identity verification — account numbers, dates of birth, last payment amounts, addresses. Real fraudsters know the name. Smart ones know the address too.
- Branching dialogue — callers that vent, go irate, hang up, or warm up depending on how you handle them
- Response judgment — some calls hand you a menu of replies with no hint which one fits. Read the room. The wrong "explanation" only makes it worse.
- Call out bad info — challenge a caller whose details don't add up. If they fumbled a digit, they'll correct it. If their info was fine, you just accused a paying customer of lying.
- CRM actions — Resolve, Escalate, Upsell, Issue Refund, Flag as Fraud, Schedule Callback, Apply Loyalty Offer. Pick wrong and it goes in your file.
- Account lockout system — three failed security checks and the account freezes
- Dead air detection — leave the caller waiting too long and their mood tanks
- Consequences arrive by email — botch a call and the customer may complain to Rajeev overnight... or may not. Smooth them over before they hang up and you might just get away with it.
- Weekly performance reviews — CSAT scores, resolution rates, handle time. Fall below quota and Rajeev stops being politely disappointed.
- Two lines, one headset — inbound customers ring on LINE 1, outbound cold calls run on LINE 2. Switch between them mid-shift; whoever you put on hold only waits so long before hanging up.
- "While I have you..." — some callers raise a second, unrelated issue right after the first is fixed. Same caller, same call, completely different diagnosis. Wrap-up waits for both.
The Side Hustle
The base salary is not enough. Fortunately the lead database is right there and D.D. pays cash.
- Cold call outbound leads — dial prospects between inbound calls, close deals for commission
- Unethical methods — fake surveys, fear pitches, unauthorized add-ons. High risk. Higher reward. Don't get caught.
- Dead drops — export the lead sheet, leave it under your desk. D.D. handles the rest. Probably.
- Cramming — sneak an unrequested add-on onto a verified account. Compliance is watching.
- D.D. escalation arc — a deepening arrangement with unknown consequences
The Lead Market
The free daily lead sheet is just the start. A world of up to 100,000 unique people sits in the directory — most of them aren't Nimbus customers at all.
- LeadMart — buy prospect packages with your own money: warm pre-screened leads, bulk cold lists, premium dossiers, and a "no questions asked" bundle from D.D.
- Win them over — most prospects are already with a rival telecom (Vortex Mobile, Pinnacle Fiber, Orbital One, and more). Every rival has a public weakness. Lean on it, beat their price, and poach the customer.
- Closing converts — every cold call you win turns a stranger into a Nimbus subscriber. Switchers carry the fattest commissions.
- Your lead book — purchased leads persist across days in CustomerDeck's new Leads tab. Dial them whenever your inbound queue is clear.
- Contracts fight back — prospects locked into sticky rival contracts are harder to flip; unconnected households are easy wins.
The Office
Your cubicle is a 3D first-person space. Things happen in it.
- Rajeev patrols the floor every few minutes with a clipboard. Every grift you run while he's watching doubles in risk.
- Fernando Jr. is your desk plant. Water him daily. He remembers if you don't.
- Gerald is a pigeon on the windowsill. He is stressed. Feeding him helps you both.
- Invoice is a tiny horse that sometimes crosses the office. Nobody reacts. His name is Invoice.
- The printer jams. You can fix it for $2. IT will not.
- Someone microwaves fish. You know who.
- System outages — CRM goes down mid-shift. The calls don't stop.
- Fire drill — mandatory evacuation. The queue pauses. Rajeev does not look pleased.
- Stress meter — calls, hold time, and bad reviews pile it on. Manage it with your coffee mug (3 sips a day), a once-daily break, or a trip to the vending machine.
- VendX Pro™ — the break room vending machine. Snacks, energy drinks, stress relief, and one mystery button you probably shouldn't press twice.
Three Ways This Ends
Stay long enough and the job stops being just calls.
- Climb — string together enough good weeks and Rajeev offers you a supervisor desk. Review other agents' escalation calls instead of taking your own. Running grifts gets harder to hide from up there.
- Get deeper — D.D.'s "arrangement" doesn't stay simple. What starts with a photographed lead sheet can end in wire transfers — and D.D. doesn't owe you anything once you're no longer useful.
- Get out clean — cooperate with Compliance instead. Protection has a cost, but it isn't your conscience.
Features
- Procedurally generated population — 8,000 core Nimbus subscribers plus an open market of up to 100,000 unique people, each with their own name, DOB, account history, and direct phone line
- CustomerDeck search engine — comb the entire subscriber database by name, account, or phone number, with a dedicated Leads tab for your bought-and-paid-for prospect book
- Nimbus Directory — a separate full-population search with gender and age filters, doubling as a live record editor: rewrite any subscriber's name, plan, balance, flags, or number, and the change sticks (and saves)
- Profile Intel — pull a "dossier" on any subscriber: day job, hobbies, quirks, satisfaction, and a suspiciously detailed activity feed
- Cold-call anyone — dial any subscriber or prospect straight off the deck between inbound calls: offer a renewal discount, flip a rival's customer, run a grift for personal profit (get caught and it lands in your file), or call for no reason at all and simply ruin their afternoon
- Social engineering scenarios — one name match is not enough
- Upgrades shop (NimbusMart™) — unlock equipment that physically appears on your desk
- Pulse dashboard — live CSAT, resolution rate, earnings, and strikes, plus a 7-day performance history
- Trophies — a full career achievement board; several are hidden until you trigger them
- Flavor email inbox — HR memos, coworker drama, fantasy league updates, evites to Janet's divorce BBQ
- Day/night window cycle, ambient office life, coffee machine with a round trip
- Multi-slot save system — three independent career saves with persistent performance history
- Manual save and autosave every 3 minutes — never lose progress mid-shift
- Caller mood system — loyalty history carries across calls; irate callers remember you
The calls keep coming. The queue never empties. You have 3 sips of coffee left.
