Holy shit, I haven’t posted anything in ages!
Primarily due to the fact that I’ve been busy trying to find work so I don’t end up homeless in Manitoba. Good news is that after ending out about eighty-five resumes I finally swung a new gig! Yay! I start on the 30th at a kinda-snazzy hotel as a banquet server/bartender. Yes, they hired a new bartender for the goddamn busiest long weekend of the year second to Christmas. CHA-CHING.
Bad news is random-totally-scam jobs like to email me. Monster.com is fun to have your resume on – you may actually get a few interviews from it. YOU ALSO MAY GET FREAKEN’ AMERICAN COMPANIES TRYING TO HIRE YOU EVEN THOUGH YOU LIVE NOWHERE NEAR TEXAS. I applied online for a secretarial position ‘cuz it said the office was pretty close to my house. I get an email back saying “HEY. DO YOU WANNA BE A SECRET SHOPPER IN YOUR TOWN – 250$ PER SURVEY THING?!” At the time I was at my wits end so I stupidly said “psht yeah for sheezy – me and my buddy will do it. I ain’t payin’ you shit all tho” and the response was a long winded “it’s cool bro, u gotta go to Western Union for one of your surveys tho; you gotta buy somethin’ but we’ll pay u beforehand yo” – this is all transcribed into Lauraese by the way. Posting long winded emails is for CNN.
At this point I basically realize it’s a total scam. I wasn’t super dumb though, I didn’t tell him my bank account number or SIN number. He did mail a package and by a package I mean a totally fake cheque for 1900$. I’m not a banker, and have never worked as one – BUT WHEN YOU MISSPELL THE LOCATION OF THE CITY IT’S COMING FROM IT’S A TAD BIT OBVIOUS.
Rigina, eh? I may have had a solid 52% in three years of Geography class in high school, but Jesus Christ. I even know that doesn’t exist. Please, if you ever get emailed, regular mailed or even called about secret shopping for http://www.mysteryshoppercanada.org/ DO NOT DO IT. I know lots of people dying to find work but if you continuously put yourself out there for LEGITIMATE employment, you’ll find something.
I got bored today when I actually received the cheque, which came in a GIANT UPS envelope even though it had a TINY piece of paper in it. So, I did what other university students do when they’re bored. THEY RESEARCH TRIVIAL THINGS.
The cheque was mailed by/paid by Gorgeous Getaways – I plugged that into google and apparently it is a company that sends people to asia to get plastic surgery at a super low cost. Yeah, the first thing I want to do when I want my flesh ripped apart is to use the CHEAPEST LABOUR YOU CAN RECEIVE?! People actually pay these folks to hook ‘em up with a vacation pack along with their plastic surgery, because you know the one thing I want to do while I’m swollen, in pain and in a dirty foreign country is to go swimming in water that’s probably seen more infectious bacteria then an AIDS patient. There are several places where these guys are set up (UK, AUS, new Zealand, Mexico, Canada, Malaysia, Costa Rica) and the cheque said that they are situated in “Rigina (Regina, Saskatchewan)” which is bullshit because the only office they have in Canada is in Edmonton. There are hundreds of online posts about terror that has ensued with people who made use of the travel agency – one woman paid 11,000$ for breast augmentation and rhinoplasty only to have her boobs wrecked and nose infections and then she had to pay a doctor in her country to fix it – 36,000$ later. It seems the company does a good deal of work on removing youtube videos of people who hate their services and have like 50 videos made by the company about how super rad it is.
I believe that Gorgeous Getaways and Mystery Shopper Canada Agency are one in the same company and both are committing fraud and preying on naive job seekers and insecure people who refuse to realize biology is going to take its course over time. For gods sake they BOTH use YAHOO! Still! If anyone wants information on any of the research I did on both companies/correlations shoot me an email or comment on this. No, I will not lend you 6,000$ because you’re somehow camping in Nigeria and lost your passport.
