Woo hoo! A fantastic stroke of luck. Below in its entirety is an e-mail I received out of the blue a day or two ago:
**Hello:
Your email address and information were provided to us by job hunters resource and we are extremely glad to announce that there has been one more home-based Gift wrapper job opening available.
We are in need of active persons to promote our business and make our customers happy. Our opening will let you experience wrapping gifts. This is a good opportunity for people who cannot work in the office or who has another job occupation. Also will be perfect chance to share more time at home.
It doesn’t require any special skills or experience, but you should have these conditions:
creativity
US-residents only or who has a work permission
attention to details
10 hours per week available
ability to organize your schedule wisely
+21 years old
With us you will have:
$2200+
bonus system
career opportunities
If you want to have more details about this job post or hiring process, please reply to us with Resume.
ONLY people with Resume will be contacted!
Kind regards!**
I can experience wrapping gifts. In the comfort of my own home! Ten hours a week for $2200 a month! And there’s even room for advancement. What could I possibly have to lose?
AND … I can still have time to maintain my gig stuffing envelopes. Win-win!
I received a similar e-mail before from another Eastern European lady in Bucharest. Something about being a local travel liaison and routing payments for them. Also about 10 hours a week, if I recall. It was also a scam, and I found it detailed on a couple of websites. That one I teased along, saying I’d sent my resume, did they get it etc. Kept making it sound like I was too inept to get them my info until I grew bored with them.
All kidding aside, I worked one Christmas season as a teenager in a bookstore where I wrapped the gifts. I was paid for this work. Ergo, my resume can list professional gift wrapper. It’s nice to know that I have this to fall back on if this medicine thing doesn’t work out.
I got a robocall the other day, “This is <Name of firm>, a debt collection agency. Please call us back at <long-distance #>”.
Notice there was nothing in there about who they were calling.
Yeah, I’mma gon get right on dat. :rolleyes:
What do you think the percentage chance they’d ‘find’ a debt in my name is; probably from a utility from an area of the country I’ve never even lived in?
I wish I got one of those and it was semi-real because I would take it. I am one of the worst present wrappers in the world even though I really try. I learned to make them look sort of decent from the top but don’t dare turn them over because all you will see is a bundled up mess on the bottom held together by random pieces of tape.
Who cares? It is just going to be ripped apart in short order anyway. My bows may be found in any reasonable location as well. It works fine enough but that is the reason gift bags were invented. If I valued perfectly wrapped presents, I would be hanging out with Martha Stewart and Snoop Dog while they are all toked up together.
Does the company issue the paper and ribbons to use or do they expect you to buy it? If I have to buy it, people would be getting lots of stuff wrapped in newsprint.
Do you realize what newspapers cost these days? I bought some last week to send to a friend who had an article in our paper about her. When did they go to $2 each?