Jeff Foxworthy has a test to see if you are a redneck. If you meet one or more of the criteria, chances are that you are a redneck (I have lost count of how many I meet).
I have developed a similar test. This is for all those scams out there, passing themselves off as jobs. My heart goes out to the young men and women who work there, looking for ways to make life easier.
Some scam job test criteria to determine if you work in a scam-job:
1. If your company is located in the bad part of town and employs people on commission-only...
2. If your interviewing manager has not bathed in three or more days...
3. If you post on all the local career web sites multiple times per week...
4. If your company is on its fourth name in the last 18 months...
5. If your company shares office space with a scam job company...
6. If your paper job application is a copy of a copy of a copy of a copy...
7. If your company actually encourages people to smoke in the office...
8. If salaries and commission levels vary week-to-week...
9. If one of the first five questions you ask in an interview is "when can you start?"...
10. If you find yourself selling candidates on why they should work for you...
11. If the boss frequently knocks on the bathroom door - disturbing your weed-smoking session - to ask about something work-related...
12. If the longest tenured person in the office has been there a whopping four months...
13. If the longest tenured person you know of in the company just celebrated their fifth month with the company...
14. If you don't actually have a business license, yet have an office...
15. If more than one person in your office wears phony cowboy boots with the suit...
16. If you actually like the candidates who wear phony cowboy boots...
17. If everybody in the office frequently works over 60 hours, but nobody even gets minimum-wage-for-40-hours paychecks...
18. If everybody in the office has 'dated' everybody else...
19. If your company is the only company in that office building...
20. If you measure hiring successes by
a) what percentage of people actually show up for the first day, AND:
b) what percentage of people actually stay after getting their first paycheck...
... then you might just work at a scam-job!
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