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Have you ever worked for a scam? (slrpnk.net)

submitted 2 weeks ago by CurlyWurlies4All@slrpnk.net to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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Have you ever had a job or gone for an interview at a workplace you realised was a scam? What tipped you off? When did you get out of it?

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[–] toynbee@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

When I was a kid I broke my arm. I thought I was a poet at the time and wrote a poem about the breakage, entitled "it's shaped wrong." My mom submitted it ... Somewhere? ... And it got accepted into a poetry book. She bought the book for, iirc, $50.

I've always felt vaguely ashamed about it. Even if I thought it was good at the time (it wasn't), it was a four line poem, not nearly worth $50.

It would be kind of funny if it was the same company.