It appears that many more independent ladies are using the services of a "Personal Assistant" for booking and screening potential clients.
I am not against the use of these "assistants" but I have had two incidents recently that got me thinking about this being a review question. Just last night, a provider sent me a private message, which I responded back to her on her regular email address. Her "assistant" wrote back to me instead and felt it was her duty to explain to me what an assistant does, like I did not know.
The "assistant" wrote, "Several ladies have personal assistants so they don't have to handle any of the "admin" work."
So, if this is so much more common now, should this be a new field listed on a providers review page?
For this particular provider, no mention of "assistant" was mentioned on her website and only one review mentioned a booker.
An independent with an assistant is still an independent. Clearly the independent is not working for anyone else, which is what agency girls do.
I do think there should be an option on their TER page that shows they have an assistant though. That way clients know who they will be contacting and won't be suspicious of someone else answering the phones.
i don't believe that assistants work with one and only one independant. in the cases with which i have some insight the personal assistant works for several "alleged" independants. that makes the most sense economically and is probably the way it usually is.
The difference is the assistant works for the provider vs. the provider working for the agency.
An agency sets forth rules that a provider must abide by in order to work for the agency. The agency runs the business, thus running the girls who work for it.
An assistant follows the guidelines set forth by the provider. The provider runs her own business, the assistant follows suit or is fired. The assistant is employed by the provider, not the other way around.
There is a clear difference between an agency and assistant whether or not the assistant works with other providers.
An independent with an assistant is not an agency. With that said, having an "assistant" feature would be helpful when informing men that an assistant might answer the phone.
there are self identified agencies in my market that claim to not "run" the girls. the girls are independant contractors. so the relationship between a girl and an agency need not as employee to employer, it can be on an equal footing contractually.
the relationship between a provider and an assistant is also not one that has to be employer - employee. it can also be mutually contractual and therefore equal.
you exampe does not cover the case of many providers contracting out admin and screening to a single assistant. that IMO sets up a kind of weird de facto agency that is not covered by any of the categories.
nevertheless, for the client who prefers, for security reasons to patronize independents only because he does not want his information shared, there is no difference between an agency, an independent provider with an assistant, a group of independant providers with a shared assistant.
a flag for "assistant" does not capture the case where one assistant is privy to the records of many providers. it is an inadequate informer of risk.
my risk preferences are (lowest risk first):
an independant provider
a straight up agency
an independant provider with an assistant
independant providers with a shared assistant
a crypto-agency actually run by hobbyists and/or providers
not based on statistical data, just my own risk analysis / opinion.
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