With the number of times these con artists change company names going to be hard to keep track. Maybe its easier to just compile a checklist of warning signs that will keep honest people from getting conned by these sleazebags.

- Small privately owned company which has an Ah Beng name like Sure Gold, Eternal Enterprises or some other tacky name that sounds like something a 6-year old came up with. Anybody with a couple of RM can register a company with the Registrar - it proves nothing.

- Focus all their sales talk on the amount of money you can earn rather than the job you are supposed to do so you dont concentrate on the flaws in their logic. Like stage magicians, they distract you with one hand while the other palms the object. This is an almost certain giveaway. If it were a real company and a real job, the employer would be more concerned about whether you were the right person to hire, rather than trying to lure you to join (because then all you are to them is a sucker).

- They ask you to pay up front for "Special training" or "Training brochures" or "Processing Fees" and the con-artist is evasive when you enquire as to what exactly you are paying for. If you were buying something, you'd like to know what it is before you buy it, right?. If they are evasive it is because they dont want you to know exactly because its all a shedload of BS.

- "Work from home" = 99% con job. I'm sure there are jobs that can be done from home, maybe telephone sales, etc. But I havent heard of a real job that you can get rich from just sitting on your butts at home. If it were so easy to make money without all the stress of travelling to work, why the hell would anybody go to work? Why don't all of us just stay at home, surf the internet and assemble fake circuit boards and get rich?

- Above all, trust your instincts. If it smells fishy and the people associated with the company don't give straight answers, it is probably all BS.

Azamat,

You do know it is so easy to leave a company and so hard to join? If you really want to leave and dont care about using the company as a reference for future jobs (I assume not since the working environment doesnt sound too great) then all you have to do is to become a lazy employee. No one wants a lazy employee around who knows he's going to quit in 2 months time.

First thing first, hand in an formal letter of resignation. Make sure everyone in your office knows it. Come to work on time of course, but leave exactly on time too (that way, they cant take disciplinary action because you satisfied the letter of the agreement). Dont even hit one extra key more than required. Unfinished work before end time, too bad boss - its not in the contract that you have to work overtime. Find out how many days leave you are allowed and take them all. Find out how many MCs you can take without disciplinary action and take them all too.

They'll ask you to leave pretty soon with pay.

This post has been edited by limsk: Jan 10 2007, 02:34 AM