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[oceantheorem]

I applied for a job with the title "Freelance academic writer" (http://detroit.craigslist.org/wri/1088900328.html sounds legit, right?) and got an email back telling me to go to some website, enter a special applicant ID number (which they provided), then fill out the following forms and THEN I'd be able to upload my resume (which I'd already sent them...). So I go to the website, type in said applicant ID number and whatnot, hit submit...

and it takes me to a freakin ad. "Fill out this survey to win a $1,000 gift certificate to Walmart!" and I then have to go through 3 pages of personal info for the Walmart thing, before it takes me to ANOTHER page forcing me to give my address to two MORE random places and fill out THEIR surveys, and I still haven't seen anything about uploading a resume or applying for said job, or anything at all really about the company I'm trying to apply to...

Screw you guys. I am not completing your ridiculous gauntlet of email thievery and trickery just so I can apply to your stupid job. I don't want your job if it means I have to work for a company that forces its APPLICANTS to sign up for stupid internet shit.

I am so angry right now.

THIS is why I still haven't found a second job. Half the jobs that are actually out there are just fucking scams.

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[steelwin.livejournal.com]

I had a similarly horible experience with Craigslist... I never should have come back to the U.S. ... fucking scams... I have about three half-jobs, translating, interpreting, playing gigs, but it's still not enough to move out.

[oceantheorem.livejournal.com]

Ugh, it is so frustrating. You'd think that with credentials like yours (and mine) people would be lining up with work for us to do.

[steelwin.livejournal.com]

Mustn't... be... cynical... must... not use... the phrase... "capitalist lie"! must stay positive! must stay positive at all costs! :-)