Hey guys!

Just thought I'd join in the fun of bashing these a-holes. Just like you guys I was also a victim but I didn't lose money. I lost a week of my life doing free labor.

I have two stories la, the first one is related to the current post which is Medan Taipan. I got there in my best uniform for an interview for the admin asst. position. I just thought I'd sapu anything that comes my way and climb the ladder from there.

So when I got there, the place was filled with people, there were like 25 of them. People were filling up their forms on the pasu bunga la... And all the interviewees had that bright eyed face yang first time interview punya (virgin interviewee la kan - which includes myself). I gleefully filled up their form and gave my photo (which i regret because rugi!). But I waited la anyway until my time to kena interview. The person who interviewed me was this hot Mak Datin type. She dressed like a tramp and her clevage was like in my face. I still remember her name and, for those of us Taipaners... she's the one who sat in the corner room reading trash malay mags or talking on the phone. She was very nice and said I was hired then and there. Wow! Just come for training next week.

So I came for the training la. There were so many people that even with the aircond full whack, the room was steaming, rugi only I pakai smart2 because I was sweating like a pig! Anyway, The usual Fibonacci, bulls bears, naik naik, turun turun, candlestick crap. The kid who trained me was an 18 yr old from usj. I really pitied this naive kid because he said he gave up his first intake to college so that he can earn money from this job. By the third day, ta dah!

"Admin position ada tapi dekat dengan kawasan raja chulan. Saya pun tak tahu kat mana tapi memang limited la sebab boss dekat sana tak perlu ramai sangat orang, tapi kalau awak nak kerja Business Exec, sekarang pun saya boleh offer awak kerja!"

I said "Saya fikir dulu. Tapi kalau ada tempat admin bagi tau saya ye". I'm still waiting till today of course.

Recently I called up a friend I made during training (which was the only plus side of this whole scam) and asked him how are things. He said that one indian pakcik from our batch actually invested RM8k. And of course it's all up in smoke now. He said Medan Taipan came out in the papers and they scammed like 230k USD out of people. But they're still at it, just read up theSun, if they're looking for Business Exec positions which want you to call Suzie, that's our buddies right there!

The moral is, call up first. Ask them what kind of business their in. If they're reluctant to elaborate don't waste your time. You might as well continue to stay at home and grow fungus. If it all sounds legit, and if you get there and they asked which advert you referred to or who were you asked to call, get out of there. If the interview sounds legit and the work turns out to be crap get out of there after lunch. Say you have an appoinment or something. If they call you up the next day, just say you've got another job offer.

The other story concerns my experience doing telemarketing. That one is also another conjob. Did a week no salary. Called up all my mom and dad's namecards but no buyers. It's a hotel marketing time share crap. Sweet talking managers.

Ciao!

Oh yeah to the dude at the top who generalized the malay race as scammers, the medan taipan bosses were all chinese and they asked all their kuncu to sell them off as wealthy billionaires.

It's not race that determines your greed. It's your lack of empathy and ignorance that does so. I bet you all these scammers just use others for their own benefit. Their trash munching scum.