Receiving e-mails about pretty 18-19 year old girls who want to fuck me, I get it, I know it's not true, I ain't that dumb :P
Now, this is totally weird, and I don't get it.
I posted a job offer on a local site, for an administrative assitant. I'm asking for a basic college degree in accounting.
I just got an application by e-mail. The guy has a very interesting cv, way overqualified for the job, he has a minor degree in law and an MBA. Some jobs for big companies with some interesting responsabilities. Advertised wage is between 12-15$ an hour, part time depending on experience.
There is one problem. All his job listings are in Europe, he lived & studied in Romania.
He gives me a local phone number (from my home the town), but the way he types the adress... it's not something a local would write, it's taken straight out of Google Maps.
So, I go ahead and search him on Facebook. His profile says he lives in Romania. His employer is in Romania, a big flower import company from the looks of it. His profile seems legit, but it's hard to tell, I don't understand the language.
Obviously, it's some kind of fraud. But what exactly are they hoping to gain?? I can see the deal with some mail order russian bride, I just don't get it with a fake identity for a job. If it's not the guy on Facebook, then obviously I'd notice it during the interview.
It could be him. He might not have updated his Facebook profile. E-mail his references or call him. Worst that happens is you invite him for an interview and it's not him.
QuoteHe gives me a local phone number (from my home the town), but the way he types the adress... it's not something a local would write, it's taken straight out of Google Maps.
Surely that's because he's Romanian? I'd check my address on Google if I'd moved to a new country.
I work in a bar and we've currently got a Spanish dentist, accountant and primary school teacher. Today we received a CV from another Spanish guy who's got ten years experience as an architect.
I can't locate his cellphone, it says it's registered to an Ottawa company, and the local phone is not in his name, not even a full name, actually.
Receiving CV from people far away, or from people with Ph.D's in history, I'm used to it. But this is a first.
Quote from: viper37 on November 19, 2012, 10:32:38 PM
or from people with Ph.D's in history
In other words, fucktards.
Quote from: PDH on November 19, 2012, 10:37:29 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 19, 2012, 10:32:38 PM
or from people with Ph.D's in history
In other words, fucktards.
Well, I think it was maybe a Master degree in history. The one with 80% unemployment rate.
I think all Ph. D find themselves a job somewhere, in the dark corner of a museum, even if it's museum about knitting :P
If he made his MBA in Romania, it might not be equivalent to one from an American or Western European institution. We had a Romanian colleague at work - smart guy and definitely knew his stuff, but his "MBA" was done in early 90s Romania and he couldn't get it acknowledged in Austria.
I wouldnt get so worried about the address writing thing, different countries write addresses different ways and it does take a while to adapt.
Though if its a con....yeah. Can't see the pay off. Maybe he thinks he can get you to pay him to come to the interview?- this does happen....though of course not through giving the money before the interview.
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I work in a bar and we've currently got a Spanish dentist, accountant and primary school teacher. Today we received a CV from another Spanish guy who's got ten years experience as an architect.
How are these people getting the job?
When I was unemployed I couldnt even find bar work and the like due to being overqualified. <_<
I thought that in most cases when you tell someone he is overqualified for a job it simply means you think he is a fucktard but do not want to hurt his feelings. :P
Quote from: viper37 on November 19, 2012, 11:34:26 PM
Well, I think it was maybe a Master degree in history. The one with 80% unemployment rate.
I think all Ph. D find themselves a job somewhere, in the dark corner of a museum, even if it's museum about knitting :P
Can't trust any of 'em. All they do is sit around being dumbfucks.
Quote from: Martinus on November 20, 2012, 02:00:42 AM
I thought that in most cases when you tell someone he is overqualified for a job it simply means you think he is a fucktard but do not want to hurt his feelings. :P
:hmm: Are you trying to trick us into saying that you're overqualified for something?
Is it even possible to have a "minor" degree in law?
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 20, 2012, 12:12:04 PM
Is it even possible to have a "minor" degree in law?
Look at BB. Doesn't even have a JD. So yeah, it's possible.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 20, 2012, 12:13:49 PM
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 20, 2012, 12:12:04 PM
Is it even possible to have a "minor" degree in law?
Look at BB. Doesn't even have a JD. So yeah, it's possible.
:lol:
Quote from: viper37 on November 19, 2012, 10:20:17 PM
I posted a job offer on a local site, for an administrative assitant. I'm asking for a basic college degree in accounting.
QuoteAdvertised wage is between 12-15$ an hour, part time depending on experience.
Dude what?
Why require a degree?
QuoteDude what?
Why require a degree?
Don't hate the player, hate the stupid broken game.
Quote from: Martinus on November 20, 2012, 02:00:42 AM
I thought that in most cases when you tell someone he is overqualified for a job it simply means you think he is a fucktard but do not want to hurt his feelings. :P
They never said that to me, it was always just the standard no reply at all.
I guess though that they want people who are going to stick around for the long haul- uneducated bums for whom the job is all they can achieve. Not somebody who just wants to make a bit of money whilst he looks for a real job.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 20, 2012, 12:55:21 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 19, 2012, 10:20:17 PM
I posted a job offer on a local site, for an administrative assitant. I'm asking for a basic college degree in accounting.
QuoteAdvertised wage is between 12-15$ an hour, part time depending on experience.
Dude what?
Why require a degree?
:huh:
That's a shit wage for a college grad, I guess, but it's not nothing, and I assure you it is completely normal, at least in SC. Albeit possibly not in Montreal, where CAN$15 probably buys half a pack of cigarettes. Is Viper in Montreal?
Well he's right insofar as ideally we wouldn't be in a place where a college degree is a requirement for admin assistant positions.
Quote from: garbon on November 20, 2012, 11:03:48 PM
Well he's right insofar as ideally we wouldn't be in a place where a college degree is a requirement for admin assistant positions.
For a part-time admin assistant, no less.
It's a barometer that a certain level of basic literacy and problem solving skills have been reached, since high school diplomas are no guarantee.
Viper can't tell if an applicant can walk and chew gum at the same time, but the University of Whatevah has done it for for him by awarding a degree suitable for origami or bird cage lining.
Quote from: CountDeMoney on November 20, 2012, 11:41:12 PM
It's a barometer that a certain level of basic literacy and problem solving skills have been reached, since high school diplomas are no guarantee.
Viper can't tell if an applicant can walk and chew gum at the same time, but the University of Whatevah has done it for for him by awarding a degree suitable for origami or bird cage lining.
That's the problem in this case--a college degree from a university in Romania might not show any more academic acheivement than that necessary to get a certificate of completion from an American kindergarten.
@Ide No, he lives about an hour east of Quebec on the South Side of the St-lawrence.
Also, College here doesn't mean the same thing for Americans then for Viper.
It's a pre-university diploma, in between High-School & University proper.
Quote from: crazy canuck on November 20, 2012, 12:12:04 PM
Is it even possible to have a "minor" degree in law?
bachelor degree, I guess? I may have mixed the proper terms.
It's not a master degree outside of the anglo saxon education system.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on November 20, 2012, 12:55:21 PM
Quote from: viper37 on November 19, 2012, 10:20:17 PM
I posted a job offer on a local site, for an administrative assitant. I'm asking for a basic college degree in accounting.
QuoteAdvertised wage is between 12-15$ an hour, part time depending on experience.
Dude what?
Why require a degree?
College is 2-3 years after high school, depending on the diploma. Minimum wage is 10$
I'm asking for College degree, but most who will apply won't have one. So, if they only have high school, they get 12, maybe 13$, depending on experience. Girls (it's mostly girls who will apply) who only have high school often have limited abilities to learn.
Preferably, they got college, they know accounting, they've seen things I don't have to teach them and they can learn.
On the down side, when they're too bright, they go to university and I lose them. Anyway, I live in the groundhog day as I have trained someone new on average once a year for the last ten years.
12-15$ is on the low side, but it's close to the average of 17$/hr. Rent is still cheap around here, unlike the insane prices of Montreal.
Bigger companies will offer 17-18$ for candidates with 10 years experience for this kind of job. My friend's wife is working for a big accounting firm, locally, and she makes 17$ an hour after 12 years of experience for the same company.
So we're talking about what in the US would be an Associate's degree?