YSaC, Vol. 410: Unemployment problem solved!
Stuff Coordinator /part-time job/ $1000 monthly
Condrea Group is a large European company. We are currently hiring employees in the USA for the position of Stuff Coordinator. This is a part-time job. The schedule of work 1-3 hours per day.
Duties:
Forwarding of post parcels to our customers.
Primary job requirements:
* Age over 21 years
* Basic knowledge of the computer
* Ability to print and scan documents
* Ability to lift packages weighing up to 40 lbs
* Accuracy and responsibilitySend your resume for consideration.
Sarah sends this listing, saying, “I love stuff! I could totally be a stuff coordinator. I wonder what kind of stuff I’ll be coordinating. I can’t wait to put that title on my new business cards!”
Best of luck with your new job, Sarah. I’m sure there’s absolutely no chance that this is a scam; after all, you’d have a title and everything! After a few months, they’ll move you up to managing things. After that, who knows? Maybe you’ll become head of widgets, doodads and gizmos. Just remember us little people when you’re a big, important doohickey specialist, okay?
i hope this stuff is better than that other stuff.
It’s the best stuff, as far as stuff goes. Apparently, this stuff must go pretty far; it can’t get there unassisted.
Doesn’t the U.S. mail and every other parcel service pretty much guarantee to deliver said stuff from point of origin to its destination, without assistance stateside?
Not.a.scam.
I’m suspecting that it’s the stuff in the packages that is the issue causing the packages to need to be forwarded.
Forwading? I agree with you. I have a feeling most of these forwarded addresses are in Nigeria — “stuff” bought online by identity thieves. Have your bail money ready when the FBI comes knocking on your door.
OK – so I believe this is a scam. But what exactly are they trying to do/who are they scamming? Scam tutorial, anyone?
Most likely is that you end up as the addressee on packages that have been ordered with stolen credit cards. When you get the packages, you then forward them onto other people in the ring. Then you end up going to prison. It’s not really a lucrative career.
Thanks for the scoop.
Can you imagine what the world could be like if people harnessed all their creativity for good?
I don’t know… it sounds like it would set you up for the very skills you’d need to be a prison gang leader, and I hear that’s lucrative work. And the meals are included.
Three hots and a cot, a gym, a library, cable … not a bad deal at all if you don’t mind showering in groups and the possibility of getting shanked every time you leave your cell.
There’s no reply button to Lola??? ….
Currently, I pay for my own meals, I do not have cable, and I’m forced to shower alone. This sounds like it might improve my entertainment and social life.
Not to mention all the “stuffing” you can handle!
Also possible that they send you a “bank draft” to cover the postage costs of what you’re forwarding, plus your salary, which turns out by reason of “clerical error” to have been made out for a few hundred bucks too much. So they ask you to deposit the “bank draft” and send them a cheque for the overage. Of course, the “bank draft” turns out to be phony…
I’m reading “stuff coordinator” as “stuff-things-in-envelopes coordinator” – as in, you pay them $40 or so for the “great secrets of making money fast” or somesuch, and the great secret is you place ads like this and get people to send you $40 for a copy of the pamphlet.
They get around the MLM laws by saying it’s a real job “stuffing envelopes” – with the pamphlets. Of course, you have to provide the addresses of the recipients yourself.
I don’t know if I am up to the challenge of handling stuff, I’ve only ever handled whatnot.
This comment is completely WIN.
It made me chuckle as much as the Craiglist post!!! XD
I spend a lot of time looking at stuff, picking stuff up, thinking of stuff, stuffing my face…I could be a stuff coordinator….coordinate telling them where to stuff their janky job!
Oh right…their stuff is legal stuff, not those illegal stuff scams so prevalent nowadays…in that case, I know the perfect neighborhood sex offender for the job!
Is it possible to spend three hours coordinating stuff every single day?
As someone who works in academia, I can state with certainty that the answer to that is, yes.
And I work for the government. I, too, can confirm that the answer to that is not only “yes”, but “oh, hell yes”.
Working in research at a University, I spend much more than 3 hours a day coordinating a wide assortment of stuff. Of course, I get great benefits. They don’t seem to offer benefits. Maybe they should look into that. In fact, their new stuff coordinator could probably coordinate the receiving of benefits for their gullible new employees.
Vagueness in the classifieds always sounds a little less reputable. Fun fact: Sending illegal/harmful things in the U.S. mail is a federal crime. Whether the stuff turns out to be controlled substances, bootlegged DVD’s or even a seemingly innocuous pyramid schemes, sending bad stuff in the mail makes it even more illegal. “We’ll do the crime and you can do the time!” may be this group’s motto.
Track the employment trends for “Stuff Coordinator” at SimplyHired: http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-Write+Stuff+Coordinator
But adding the word “write” in there increases the number of jobs it thinks are appropriate. Doing a search for just “Stuff Coordinator” (or even better, just “Stuff”) shows what a small market stuff coordinating really is.
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-Stuff+Coordinator
Ralph Wiggum: So, do you like…stuff?
Eddie Izzard: “Do you like…bread?”
I’ve got… legs.
But do you know how to use ’em?
*realize my age is showing*
What’s the problem here? Clearly, this is the European parent company of Snapple. They use the Best Stuff on Earth! (Which, as I understand it, just got better.)
If the best stuff got better, weren’t they lying in the original ad? Don’t get led astray by false slogans from mega corporations… I don’t care how good their pink lemonade is!
OMG this made me laugh and probably made the fired Snapple Lady make a frowny face.
Sorry YSaCers, I’m gonna have to stick my head above the parapet and admit that I LIKE this job description for it’s lack of floweriness. In my office we have the following job titles:
Office Coordination Manager
Corporate Support Officer
Internal Communications Co-ordinator
Which in normal terms count as the following (in order)
Receptionist
Secretary
Mailman
I think a lot of confusion and arguments could probably be avoided if people just had brutally honest job titles. The only way I would like this title more would be if it it were ‘Stuff Forwarder’, ‘Stuff Mailer’ or better still ‘Stuff Do-er’
Also – even if you are a bit squeamish about the blunt title of ‘Stuff Co-ordinator’ then when you say it ‘I’m a Stuff Co-ordinator’, it sounds enough like ‘Staff Co-ordinator’ to imply that you may actually have a more cushy role in HR.
Hmmmm – Maybe I should look to employ a ‘Thought Co-ordinator’ as I’m not sure that all this makes sense…….
I think one of my favorite classified ads when I was job-hunting was looking for a “Director of First Impressions”, i.e. receptionist.
My favorite euphemism that confuses the rest of the staff: “Knowledge Manager.” Also, “Information Scientist.” a/k/a Librarian.
I once applied to a ‘Growth and development specialist’ position I found online. It was a floater position at a day care. Way to make the people who break the teachers for lunch feel important (for the record I work at a day care, and I did a month of floating. It was a bunch of busy work with the occasional sub position.)
I believe these are the positions Obama is trying to create. Under the guidance of the “Stuff for Change Department”….”Stuff” is greener and definitely less fussy.
I sort of feel for them, to be honest. It can be tough to come up with a job description that covers all the bases of what you want the employee to do when what you really want to write is something like:
“Wanted : A Bitchmonkey
* Must say “how high” when I ask you to jump.
* I promise not to ask you to do anything too illegal.
* You’ll get paid whatever to be my bitchmonkey whenever.”
What would a job as Bitchmonkey pay? It sounds like a fantastic position.
Probably depends on what the general flavor of bitchmonkeywork is. More for multi-billion-dollar-corporate-merger bitchmonkeywork than that-litter-sure-looks-like-it-could-use-some-stabbing bitchmonkeywork. Yano?
Holy cow, this is what I do for a living! I’m a Bitchmonkey!
Look in the mirror, people. YOU MAY BE A BITCHMONKEY TOO!! 😀
That was my first real job out of college. Wasn’t very good at it and got fired … one of the best things to happen to my career, actually!
Stuff happens.