Lainey

Found this on Craig's list....they were looking for office support staff, manager, bookkeeper, etc.

You must have two year's experience and be ready to start work tomorrow, be the type of person who realizes that in a recession you may have to make concessions about pay, benefits and location of the job and you must be willing to try a job on a temporary basis for a few weeks before it becomes permanent.
These positions offer a foot in the door of a great company and anyone willing to be flexible now will be rewarded with a great career and super benefits as the economy improves.

I guess if you are desperate, this job might be one you apply for. However, it appears they are looking for desperate people they can pay cheap wages to, then they can kick them to the curb after a few weeks and get new people.

I realize competition for employment is really tough, and employers have many experienced people to chose from, however, something about this ad makes me

Would you apply?

ralper

You never know. Ray Kroc's secretary retired a multimillionaire because she was willing to take shares of stock in a startup named "McDonald's" when Kroc didn't have the cash to pay her. Many of the "Microsoft Millionaires" worked for stock options.

I don't know. It could be nothing, but it could be something worth looking into.

Lainey

If I didn't have a job, maybe I'd apply. As far as having a job with concessions to pay/benefits due to the economy, I'm already there. The devil I know may be better than the one I don't in this case.

To leave one job for such a vague one in this economy doesn't make sense to me.

Cragi's list has also made note of various job scams out there...

rjosey8385

No...because they punctuated years' incorrectly... It's a pretty awful ad.... kinda sounds like, "Well, if I make money, then you get paid....oh, and you'll be based out of my basement for the first few weeks, but if we start to make money, you'll be relocated to the Northwest Territories - and bring a toilet brush and Lysol when you report...". Guess I'd have to know what TYPE of business it was - obviously a start-up - before I'd apply.... and, yes, I would have to be desperate.

Lainey

[QUOTE=rjosey8385,Apr 22 2010, 11:18 AM] No...because they punctuated years' incorrectly...

Jumpy Guy

Sketchy to say the least.

ralper

Most likely the ad is a scam, but as I said before, you never know.

The following is the text from a help wanted ad placed in London newspapers by Ernest Schackelton before his Antartic expedition in 1914. I've read that the ad was an overwhelming success and Schackelton got all the men he needed.

"MEN WANTED FOR HAZARDOUS JOURNEY. SMALL WAGES,
BITTER COLD, LONG MONTHS OF COMPLETE DARKNESS,
CONSTANT DANGER, SAFE RETURN DOUBTFUL. HONOR AND
RECOGNITION IN CASE OF SUCCESS."

buckeyesue

Lainey's post about the job listing on craigslist got me curious.

I briefly skimmed some of the job postings in our area.

Here is one that seems to be quite physically demanding.

"Physical Demands:
While fulfilling the responsibilities of this position, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to finger, handle, or feel; reach with hands and arms; talk or hear. The employee is occasionally required to stand; walk and stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl."

Do you think that you would qualify for this job?

Oh, BTW, it is for a Senior Financial Analyst.

The job has many other qualifications listed, too.

I do think that I would qualify for the physical demands of that job, but I doubt that I would qualify for many of the other demands.

boltonblue

hmmm sounds like some of our management review meetings



and I bet Kroc's secretary had a real good look at what she was signing into.
there was an article in the boston globe just the other day about companies willing to exploit the workforce while they can.

Lainey

The employers are in the driver's seat right now, I'll be glad when that swings in the other direction.