# Weird "Help Wanted" ad

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [July 16, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690 "2013-07-16T19:08:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690/1 "2013-07-16T19:08:11Z")

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A company has been running a “We’re hiring” ad for some months, and today, I called the number just to see what it was. The man answering the phone said simply “Midwest” and I replied, “Midwest what?” He said, “Just Midwest” and I answered, “Oh, I think I have a wrong number” and hung up.

Googling the phone number led me to a website featuring pictures of smiling young adults of multiple races in business attire, and it kept going on and on about what a fun place this is to work at and it has career advancement opportunities, but didn’t say what the company actually did.

Finally, I found a link implying that they want people to go to people’s homes and demonstrate cleaning products. :dubious: Um, no, I don’t think so.

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**Author:** ![Lemur866](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lemur866/32/434_2.png) [@Lemur866](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lemur866)\
**Post date:** [July 16, 2013, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690/2 "2013-07-16T19:42:00Z")

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Any time they don’t tell you what the position is, you can bet it will be cold calls to sell crap on commission.

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**Author:** ![Grrr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grrr/32/146_2.png) [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690/3 "2013-07-17T02:20:56Z")

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Heh, I once saw an ad in the paper that said (and I shit you not): Wanted, positions for easy, lazy, do nothing job.

I thought to myself: Man, I’ll bet they’ll get the cream of the crop with that ad.

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**Author:** ![Ambivalid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/a5b964/32.png) [@Ambivalid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ambivalid)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 2:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690/4 "2013-07-17T02:34:56Z")

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You good with vacuums? And people?

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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [July 17, 2013, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-help-wanted-ad/663690/5 "2013-07-17T02:55:04Z")

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> [@Shakes](#):
>
> Heh, I once saw an ad in the paper that said (and I shit you not): Wanted, positions for easy, lazy, do nothing job.
> 
> I thought to myself: Man, I’ll bet they’ll get the cream of the crop with that ad.

Watch it be digging ditches by hand or something similarly glamorous.