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Friday, January 27, 2012

MDA hire's people to cold call for donations

The MDA, or the Muscular Dystrophy Association does hire people to work for them! Did you know this? Well I didn't! On the surface this sounds wonderful! Just think; to have the chance to do what you love for people who need the help! But this is how they recruit people to work for two to three weeks and maybe more!
They begin by utilizing staffing agencies. They schedule a day to bring in 40 people from all the staffing agenciess and perform two group "interviews". I was part of one of these interviews. This is what happened:


Jack led the group interview. He began by telling us a little about the job and how the fund raiser worked. Jack had us do several “exercises”; The first one was for us to tell him a little about ourselves. The second exercise was to write a script es based on what he just told us about the job we would be doing, if hired. Then he mentioned that some people had received a copy of their cold calling script already but wanted us to read our script.
The guy sitting to the left of me had worked there 2 years before so he was skipped from reading his. Four or five other people read their script that was 3 sentences long and their third sentence was a closing sentence.
Lots of different staffing agencies sent people to this “interview” and I’m wondering if of those people somehow knew what the requirements would be before they got there!
Jack told my staffing company I would be “near the top” of the next hiring interview. They know I would already know what the requirements are and if a staffing agency would have handed me the script,  of course I’d have plenty of time to come up with a script that closes in the third sentence and the MD Association knows this. I’ve done this before for a company I already work for. I would have a script written before I got there.
If anyone was hired from my staffing agency they were either “blind sided” like I was or already somehow knew the requirements to pass their “test”. I think their motivation of having a group interview is to glean the very few that can “hit the ground running”! So both the staffing company's time and my time and transportation were wasted.
Do I think I would pass their "test"? Yes. Do I think I'll get hired or even asked back to another group interview? Probably not. More importantly, would I want to go back? This doesn't do a lot for the association's good name!

Tuesday, January 10, 2012

Free Ad Car web site is gone.

This is the final time I will talk about this site. I've lost my $40. This guinea pig found the truth though! Looking up the site recently it has been closed! In it's place is a notice that the program will soon be part of Register.com. So I researched Register.com. Every listing in the search engines say one thing-scam. Don't list your own web site in it and don't believe any of the sites listed in Register.com. There are plenty of testimonials that tell about people's bad experience with Register.com. Lost money trying to register their site is the main complaint!
Your hopes of driving a free, new car around your city are up in smoke! Don't fall for either program. It cost me $40 to bring you this information! I certainly hopes it stops people from loosing their own money! Then I'll have done my job.

Thursday, January 5, 2012

Workfromhomescams.net

Workfromhomescams.net is a new one to me! I've never seen it before. The site says it is written by a guy named Mike Taylor. As anyone of you know, at least my long time readers, I am a skeptic about any online opportunities to work from home. I've been known to "bookmark" a site and watch it, sometimes for over a year to verify, as much as possible, it's validity.
That's not the fault of the site but because 99 percent of the work at home opportunities are not real. So I did some research. But before I get into that I'll tell you why a couple of things put up yellow flags to me right away!
A lot of what "he" says in the beginning mirrors my own experience over the last three years. But then the big mistake comes from the recommendations made on the landing page (first page). They are considered the "best" and the "second best". Both recommendations supposedly starts paying you the next day, after reading all the information. Both supposedly pay up to $310 a day!
Need I say more? But there is more.
The only thing that tells me about this person is a few words on the landing page. I'm supposed to believe this is a real person. The other thing that bugs me is the name of the sight is "Work From Home Scams", not "The best work at home online sites".
Then I did a search for "Mike Taylor", In my address bar I put in- "Who is Mike Taylor". According to both Google and Bing he is anything but an internet scam reporter. He is any number of sports stars or politician.
All of this is enough for me to ignore this sight in it's entirety.
"He" doesn't have a blog in it, or a picture, or even a way to talk to him in the site. So, if he's so busy earning money with these two sites how does "he" have time to manage this web site? I can only conclude that this is a site to lure people in, in hopes to make money from home. Caution is the word of the day for this one!

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Free Ad Car web site no longer exists!

They now say they will be available on Register.com. So I do not see my money returned, or anyone to contact to get it back! Save your $40. You will never be able to get a free car to drive, with or without advertising.
The good news about this is I knew I may never see my $40 again and I was willing to be a "guinea pig" to find out. There was nothing out there to speak of telling us both good and bad about this company. So this is my in depth review. I'm not going to waste any more time on this site. I wonder what register.com is about? I'm about to find out. (I know, I'm a gluten for punishment)!