To be fair, the site that published the story is called "Tedium", their tagline is "the dull side of the internet", and at the end of the story it says "Your ti

To be fair, the site that published the story is called "Tedium", their tagline is "the dull side of the internet", and at the end of the story it says "Your time was just wasted by Andrew Egan". So they are completely upfront about it, and they deliver what they promise.