Costumed Subway Sandwiches Mascot

Any job where you have to put on a stupid costume automatically sucks.(including the "Brooks Bros"/ Wall st. monkeysuit BS- but at least they get paid better).It has to be pretty degrading to dress up as a cow or a sandwich.Not only is it humiliating ,it's also a health/sanitation risk as who knows who else was wearing the get-up & if it has EVER been cleaned!!!(Workers at DISNEY got lice and crabs from the regulation underwear & costumes they were forced to wear....NOT worth the few crumbs these jobs pay.)

Talk about embarrasing! I'd say it was similar to screwing a "fat girl" or riding a moped. Sure is fun...but you don't want your friends to see you doing it!

You get heckled but for the most part people don't know who you are so when the costume comes off its denial city.

I've spoken to three people (one of them one of my ex-wives) who did a costume mascot job, and all three talked about how they got the snot beaten out of them by little kids, teenagers and adults who thought it was cool to kick, punch, trip or otherwise abuse the doofus in the costume. I've witnessed the same thing occur to other mascots. It seems that the anonymity and dehumanization of the costume inspires a degree of random malice in an element of the population.

No way. I think I would love being a mascot of any sort. I remember when I was in Seattle, I took a picture of myself w/a giant fish. I think being a mascot would be pretty cool.

not so bad at least you can deny that it is you in the suit

I sarcastically waved at one of these guys in LA as I drove by, and he flipped me off with his no-fingers-triangle-cheese-wedge hand. I about laughed myself into a car crash.

better than shoveling out horse stalls

This has to be low-paying and monotonous, but at least it's not that difficult and doesn't take any specialized training.

Embarassing but easy

I always feel sorry for these people, especially in the summer time when it's over 100 degrees in some areas. They must feel like a complete idiot jumping up and down and waving at people. Good thing nobody can recognize who's in that costume. Oh, well. I guess it's a job, and some people would be lucky to have it.

I wouldn't want to have that job, but, I certainly could think of worse things that I could do to earn a living....

oh man they do make for good pictures with my kids!

I seen this Sad Subway Sandwich getting getting thrashed by kids on bikes as they sprayed him with sill string. I pulled over and twisted him up a Mini-Me version balloon of his Subway Sandwich. After that, he was happy and started dancing too. He was in Bellflower, CA on Alondra & Woodruff. Here's the footage I took of the "after happy Subway Sandwich guy" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IBYYTr-2iM Hope you enjoy! Carmen Tellez [email protected] Los Angeles, CA 562-948-5342

Totally depends on the climate. My wife did this as a summer job in high school once for a sandwich joint. She got sick of all the passing drivers shouting "Nice buns!"

This would suck in Arizona.

Very bad in either high humidity, high temperatures, or (during Arizona's monsoon) both conditions at once. Working outdoors is bad enough, but having to wear this monkey suit (this is only one example) is hideous.

I wouldn't want to be a costumed mascot, in general...

The humiliation.

What mascot? I can only think of Jared Fogel. UPDATE: I was thinking of this yesterday, and i think this was mistaken. Whoever was requesting this was thinking of the spidermonkey from the Quiznos sub commercials. I saw a pic of the costumed spidermonkey on its creators website. The site was called rathergood.com

I would have to agree that any costumed mascot that is required to be in public, rather than the confines of a business, would have to be worse. At least for those inside, they have chosen to go somewhere and see the costumed mascot. Standing outside trying to draw people in, you have to deal with people yelling at you, throwing things, who knows what from whoever passes by. Plus, of course, dealing with the weather.

This job has got to suck worse than being the Chuck E. Cheese rat because at least the Chuckster enjoys air conditioned environs whereas the Submarine Sandwich Dude is invariably stuck on a concrete sidewalk in 90 degree heat. On an entirely unrelated note, I once dated a woman who physically assaulted the Chuck E. Cheese mascot when he frightened one of her kids by leaping out and yelling Boo!.