...I mashed up the proverb a bit, but you know what I'm talking about.
Wednesday I found a sign in one of my classrooms recently that advertised easy, variable-schedule work with high pay per week (made me raise my eyebrows), but being rather short of means of cash influx and a car with which to pursue regular methods, I decided nothing hurt by looking. Took a pull-off tab with me, stuck it in my back pocket.
Of course, between the class and my dorm room, it disappeared. So I was put out.
Mention it to my friends today, and one of them said he knew the signs I was talking about, since there were signs in his dorm's restrooms, and gave me the tab he'd stuck in his wallet.
I should mention that the placement of these ads struck me as rather odd when I went searching for a sign earlier today. Classrooms are typically locked when not in use, so the potential audience a sign in the classroom can reach is rather limited. Further, I was unable to locate any other of the signs in the building's hallways during my search, and when I looked in the classroom today the sign appeared to be gone; and a trek to the University Center returned similarly fruitless, which I found to be quite strange. So when my friend said these signs were in restrooms, it struck me again as odd, and I remembered it.
Looked at the tab, and it read:
Mailing/Other Easy Work,
Can Fit Your Schedule.
No Exp. Req. Up to $938/Wk.
www.studentworknow.com
(site not hotlinked because I do not currently endorse it; copy-paste at your own discretion and do not hold me accountable for results)
The absence of a phone number bothered me, and I was immediately reminded of the e-mails that arrive in my school box periodically to advertise survey-completing work, which I view with a certain distaste.
I pull up the site, and it's an immediate HTML disaster. With what wep-page-design knowledge I currently have, I can easily see the effort taken to construct the page was minimal—i.e., it could have been completed with my current expertise. Text-heavy, with the occasional image embedded in the page to break apart reading. Grammar and syntax was mediocre, page was rife with abuse of bold and underline tags, and the occasional out of place italics tag for emphasis would have had more impact if random phrases hadn't been victims of highlight abuse. E.g. <--
Speed-reading the site yielded almost nothing in the way of hard information, which disgusted me. Upon reaching the bottom of the mess I encountered a Click Me link which appeared to take the prospect to the application screen. I hovered over it, and in the resulting URL preview (thank you web browser) I saw the phrase "(One-Time Fee)", parentheses included; under the box wherein the link lay was a size 6 font blotch of text that mentioned PayPal, and said that if the applicant did not have a PayPal they could have a friend or parent pay instead, which to me seemed unnecessary because it already doesn't matter whose PayPal is used as long as money is transacted—unless the page designer is phishing for account information, potentially.
The Click Me link did not respond to a right-click attempt. Upon closing the tab, I was greeted with a pop-up window that asked me if I was sure I wanted to navigate away from the page, plus a large amount of unnecessary additional advertisement for the same opportunities as the page listed.
I do not believe that I shall be looking into that line of "work" again. Now excuse me while I inform my friend what I found.
