I am unsure whether to accept this job offer

[Elok]

FROM: Jamie@netboxmail.info

Hello,Elok I am the HR assistant Manager with First Premier Staffing, and we primarily fill labor positions.
Today I received your resume for our open position, "General Laborers- No Experience Necessary"
We are located Downtown, so reliable transportation is a requirement. Your daily requirements will be to complete all tasks and work with our team.

This is a full-time position, and pays $14.85 per hour. No experience is needed and paid training is provided. I think that you would be a great candidate,
and I would like to move you forward in the application process. The next step is to get your resume screened by Cynthia, the HR manager.
For security reasons, she only accepts resumes that are viewable on a secure website.

To continue, finish the steps below:
Step 1. Click Here http://wegiveyourPCchlamydia.com (Wait for the page to load)
Step 2. Select the job type, and enter your zip code.
Step 3. On the next page, enter your contact information, and upload your resume.

Complete these steps by 3pm, Friday June 14, 2012, or I will have to move on to the next candidate.
I cannot guarantee you the job, but I don't see why you would'nt get it, as there are 7 positions available. Good luck.

I just got this today, and I'm conflicted. On the one hand, it does sound like a pretty sweet deal. On the other, any job that offers paid training and twice minimum wage for what's called "general labor" seems pretty much guaranteed to entail large men doing unspeakable things to my anus. What are your thoughts on the matter?

[Dinner]

I say go for it. You only live once, right?

:shootmenow:

[Al B. Sure!]

Live.Laugh.Love

[OzzyKP]

Based on the name of their site I believe your general labor entails having sex with a lot of computers.

[Elok]

Yeah, I kinda changed the URL to avoid giving them search engine help there, Ozzy. The real site name was something hopelessly generic involving the words "job application."

[OzzyKP]

That is way less fun.

[Dinner]

Elok should have chlamydia. His aspy ass should be gotten funky so others don't have to.

[SlowwHand]

Do you have a job? If you have a job, are you OK with it? If you answered "Yes" to both, blow this off.

[MOBIUS]

*Laughs at Slowwie taking this seriously*

[Alexander's Horse]

"general labor" seems pretty much guaranteed to entail large men doing unspeakable things to my anus. What are your thoughts on the matter?

I think it has probably suffered enough.

Hi Moby

[Elok]

That is way less fun.

I have not altered his e-mail address; feel free to write him and complain. I haven't checked, but I imagine the URL I provided has no claim on it.

[Lorizael]

Oooh, Downtown. I've heard good things about jobs that are located in Downtown.

[Main_Brain]

Sounds legit

[The Mad Monk]

Sounds like you will be selling life insurance, or small goods out the back of your car. Both are "legitimate", but a lot of work for little return. I worked for several of these companies as a student; the only one I didn't regret was when the porduct was Cutco knives, but they're a high dollar product with a good reputation. I would say go ahead and check it out, and if you don't like what you hear, walk away. If you like what you hear but don't get the results you want, walk away.

Don't bother putting them on your resume, in any case.

[Elok]

TMM, I got this by responding to a Craigslist ad; the "job" in question almost certainly doesn't exist, and all the details are made up simply to entice people to go to their website and do something to help their bottom line for free. Possibly it would involve downloading something nefarious. More likely I would get a little ways into the process before signing up for a credit report as a formality to ensure I was a trustworthy person. Or I would be a "mystery shopper" buying merchandise for reimbursement that never comes (possibly for merchandise that never arrives either). My favorite is the busy jet-setting executive who's traveling around for the next couple of weeks but is willing to "give you a try" by having you run a couple of errands for him before he gets back. Anyway, you can tell there's something fishy by the low skill requirement, the high, specific compensation, the ridiculous YOU MUST CALL NOW notice...

If it were just a lousy sales job and not an outright scam, they would list an utterly outlandish range of compensation like "$100-500K a year!!" with the tacit understanding that it could be achieved by a sufficiently "motivated" seller. There's a pattern to these things.