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For those of you currently looking for a job: you have my sincerest pity. A few months ago, I too was job searching and it was an absolute nightmare. Just one

For those of you currently looking for a job: you have my sincerest pity. A few months ago, I too was job searching and it was an absolute nightmare. Just one example from many: A while back, one of the few people who responded to my application was a "sales" job. The more experienced among you will already know where I'm going with this. I looked at their website and the warning lights were going off in my head. What I was actually supposed to be doing there was never really described. Luckily, whoever designed the website and related marketing materials was kind enough to fill all the unused space with politician grade word salad non-information. This was all peppered with appeals to greed and images of high ranking executives enjoying themselves (THIS COULD BE YOU!!!). I then checked their reviews from previous employees and it was universally panned. One previous employee described it as a cult. For once, my cowardice and willingness to abort paid off. I cancelled by phone ON THE MORNING OF MY INTERVIEW while in bed. I later read a forum thread on "multilevel marketing" schemes and instantly felt the life being breathed back into me. I had just dodged a major bullet. The moral of the story is: If something seems off, trust your gut! There's plenty of large power structures designed solely to fuck with you. This goes double for if you're young and inexperienced and don't really know the lay of the land.

sumtechguy 6y ago
On the higher end of the job spectrum MLM is not common. They usually just ghost you totally because it never was a real job on the other end. The number of jobs I have seen that are obvious 'by our policy we put this on the internet' is astounding. Tell tales of that is large amount of very specific requirements for a job and very low pay, basically a copy pasta of someones resume. I also see a lot of what I call reflection scams. Basically some recruiter copying some other job listing to try to become the middle man. You are usually better off searching for unique phrases in the description and finding the original posting. On the lower end MLM is rampant. Most of the ones doing it do not understand the math behind what they are trying to do. They are in the 'cult'. They honestly think they are 'growing their business' by recruiting and honestly wasting peoples time. Once you show them they need a large city sized group of people in their tree to make anything they usually drop out. Easy things to look for are 'be your own boss' 'work to your own rules' some crazy amount of money per week for no exp etc etc etc. Another common one I see is package laundering. Which is a scam where you pick up what is essentially stolen packages and re-mail them to someone else. Usually associated to some stolen credit card. At some point you will be left holding the bag when they fold up shop.

sumtechguy 6y ago

On the higher end of the job spectrum MLM is not common. They usually just ghost you totally because it never was a real job on the other end. The number of jobs I have seen that are obvious 'by our policy we put this on the internet' is astounding. Tell tales of that is large amount of very specific requirements for a job and very low pay, basically a copy pasta of someones resume. I also see a lot of what I call reflection scams. Basically some recruiter copying some other job listing to try to become the middle man. You are usually better off searching for unique phrases in the description and finding the original posting. On the lower end MLM is rampant. Most of the ones doing it do not understand the math behind what they are trying to do. They are in the 'cult'. They honestly think they are 'growing their business' by recruiting and honestly wasting peoples time. Once you show them they need a large city sized group of people in their tree to make anything they usually drop out. Easy things to look for are 'be your own boss' 'work to your own rules' some crazy amount of money per week for no exp etc etc etc. Another common one I see is package laundering. Which is a scam where you pick up what is essentially stolen packages and re-mail them to someone else. Usually associated to some stolen credit card. At some point you will be left holding the bag when they fold up shop.