Wednesday, July 29, 2009

Have I got a "job" for you...

I know! I totally suck. I haven’t been able to come up with a damned thing to write about lately. Things have been pretty stressful in the b house lately – financial worries are taking over, and it’s hard to think about anything else.

And work has been making me crazy. As always, I will say how much I love my job and love Awesome Company, but I have recently been given a new task and I hate it. No really, I HATE IT. As in, makes me sick to my stomach with dread hate. As in finding 100 other things to do instead of this task hate. As in, if they gave me the choice of scrubbing the building’s bathrooms or doing this task, I’d be all, WHERE’S THE BUCKET, BITCHES??


So anyway.


Oh, get this. Mr b has his resume out on monster, etc. The other day, he got an email from some bullshit company (I am not saying the name), about a job. The job title was an acronym that had something to do with construction (I can’t remember), so he thought it was legit and checked it out. It was clear from the first look that it was bullshit – mainly because it went on about how much you can earn and no real job does that shit. But we read it anyway, because we’re easily entertained. He ignored it and then they contacted him again, with more information about “the job.” I use quotes because…well…you’ll see. It said that they were an “organization” (no type of organization, nothing about what they are, what they do, etc, just an organization), and they deal with “donations.”

They said that the position they were looking to fill was made up of “tasks.” These “tasks” would be emailed to him. The “tasks” would involve processing “donations” to their organization. And by processing, they mean picking up the “donation” and if it is in check or money order – are you ready? – CASHING IT AND DISTRIBUTING THE CASH TO THEIR “SPONSORS!!”

Do you now understand the need for all the quotes?

Once we got done laughing, we searched for the “organization” online – nothing. Not one search engine was able to locate anything about this “organization” - and we tried them all and tried every variation of keywords you can think of. And yet, in their email, they included a link to their site – it’s a generic website claiming that they are a nonprofit, nondenominational housing organization which provides low cost housing around the world to low-income people and people who have been affected by disasters. Now why would nothing come up in a Google search? Perhaps because they don’t want to be found? What donation-accepting, non-profit, charitable organization doesn’t want to be found??

Mr b just deleted it, but I wanted to send a reply thanking them for their interest, but declining their generous offer of employment in their MONEY LAUNDERING ORGANIZATION.

Oh, also? They misspelled “travel.” That would have been enough even without the illegal activity.

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7 comments:

spoon said...

Take job and I'll see you on Dateline soon. Your boss is a Nigerian living in Montreal

Anonymous said...

Financial worries are the worst. I tend to stress over them myself. Hang in there, I'll be sending good luck your way.

And... thank you so much for visiting my blog! So nice to meet you!

Swistle said...

This is sooooo funny. I had no idea how much money could be made in a non-profit organization!

Lisa said...

Try the BBB, we had a similar deal only was a place scamming the elderly MIL with dementia. Nothing popped up until I hit that site about check to investigate complaints and it was a million miles long.

FYI, I hate my work tasks this week too.

Michelle said...

That is pretty special. I always wonder if they purposely are that obvious and dumb in order to be sure that they attract dumb people rather than the ones who will be on to them from the start....

Elisa @ Globetrotting in Heels said...

How do you mispell travel?? There's only a few letters in it.

Karen said...

You know, Mr. B could start his own "business" and make millions. I'm just thinking out loud here.