Nice try

By Journo - 27/04/2009 19:46 - United States

Today, after two months of unemployment, I got a call from a marketing firm offering me an interview for an entry-level position. While Googling the company, I discovered it's a scam. I graduated college in 3 years with a 3.5 GPA, and the only interview I can get is at a fake company. FML
I agree, your life sucks 55 132
You deserved it 5 015

Same thing different taste

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Socrates_fml 0

good catch, at least. imagine if you went and were scammed. THAT would have been a real FML. This is an FML with a bright side

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Our economy is so bad right now that even prostitutes are offering discounts.

It aggravates me that there are still people who don't understand the college GPA scale, so let me illustrate the matter in a personal manner: In high school, I took pretty much all AP classes, and my GPA was a 4.5. I graduated first out of a thousand people. Now I've moved onto a prestegious university, where, even with the best of my work, I still have a 3.6. Moral of the story: 3.5, which is halfway between an A and a B, is a solid grade--in fact, a good one (the average at my school is lower than 3.0), depending on the difficulty of the university. It is rarely possible to make a 4.0 at a really good school. It is even more difficult to graduate in three years (meaning, probably, a much heavier workload) while maintaining such a high GPA. Instead of bashing other people for not being smart enough--because the bashers have misunderstood--we should, as some of us have done, offer pointers for job search and bond together to suffer the fortune we've been dealt--and to get some laughs out of it.

P.S. I believe Bill Gates failed out of college.

Ah don't feel bad. There's still time. You may have the skills on paper; whether or not the job exists is another story.

mhmmmmm 0

Undergrad is serious business. -_-

Aha. Sucks to be you! And you were smart enough to check the company, it sucks balls to be you!

everyone is effing retarded (except for some). do you know how hard a 3.5 or above is to get in college? so much different than highschool (or middleschool, to you idiot). Yes, I obviously know it's done, but not NEARLY as common or easy. In highschool I graduated with a 3.9 in the international baccalaureate program, now I'm in college and have a 3.5. But i've been working my ASS off. way more than i ever did in highschool. grading is much much different, and instead of assignments to help balance out bad test grades MANY grades are solely based upon exams. you don't get notes, and just have to scribble them down as the professor is talking. Here at my university, a 3.5 is an A or A-, not a nice mix of Bs and As. Getting a C+ here is considered failing (for classes that are applicable to your major you need normally above a 2.5 or 3.0 in the class to move on, unlike in highschool how you have to only have above an F)

and wtf... middle school? ha. i dont know whether to laugh at you or cry for you. really? compare to a university workload? ok.. so easy? drop out and come over the fence. play OUR game. i dare you

I was hired by the same type of thing. After I got the call that I was hired from this company, I did some online research and found out that it was a scam. One that I had fallen for ten years before. I was laid off over a year ago, and spending every day job hunting, I still have not gotten a job. I, unfortunately did not go to college, but I have 20+ years of work experience - most in customer service - I can't even get an interview with retail stores. It sucks, but I have found that Indeed.com has been helping at least FIND things to apply for. Good luck. I hope you have better luck than me.

Hey man, I got fired from McDonalds. Yeah, McDonalds. So don't feel too bad.