There’s a new scam circling the internet.

Jen, our Content Manager at WFHMarket.com pointed out the following scam to me, so I thought I’d take a minute to warn everyone who’s looking for a work at home job.

This new scam is posted as a vacant job in many online job portals, but in reality it’s just a means for these bastards to get you to pay them a fee.

The supposed job usually goes by the title “IDEAL COMPUTERS” and they claim they’re looking for: Currently has openings for Data Entry, Clerical, Customer Service and Admin Positions available.

You can read the scam report on this company at:

http://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/0/363/RipOff0363142.htm

You can see how the actual job post looks by going to:

http://www.wfhmarket.com/work-from-home-forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=142

If you or anyone you know is a victim of this or any other scam, be sure to contact your bank or credit card company immediately and ask for them to investigate and do a charge back.

Office Scents that Make Sense.

“People can become so accustomed to their favorite perfumes and colognes that they will often overuse them to try to strengthen the smell.”

It happens every day, somewhere, all over the world.  You walk into the workplace, sit at your desk, and the smell overwhelms you immediately.  It’s from the neighbor in the next cubicle.  The perfume or cologne must have been on sale; and your co-worker is eager to share their idea of aromatherapy.  The scent is like a thick fog that you can’t escape.  Unfortunately, you’re stuck with it.  It builds inside your nostrils miserably until you reach the end of the day with a pounding headache.

One day you walk into the office and you begin to sneeze.  Your sinuses swell with irritation.  Your eyes begin to water.  You realize it will be a long, hard day.  The cleaning crew has saturated the floors with bleach again.  You’re very sensitive to the smell of bleach.  It makes you nauseous.

Your boss owns a cat.  She took home a stack of papers over the weekend to prepare for you to finish.  The papers have become permeated with the cat’s litter box scent that seems to be a permanent stench in your boss’s apartment.  It’s a scent only your boss can ignore.

Your co-worker brings in air freshener after complaining about the muskiness of the office.  The air freshener just happens to be the only one out of that brand that offends you.  He just last week removed the plant to which you were allergic.

What makes sense to some employees seems to have no effect on others.  People can become so accustomed to their favorite perfumes and colognes that they will often overuse them to try to strengthen the smell.  The rest of the office suffers the consequences.  What smells wonderful to one person can be torture for another.  Since everyone is created as an individual, it makes sense that everyone will have their own personal sense of scents.  However, to some people, it just makes no sense that someone might dare to find their brand of air freshener or the smell of their precious animals offensive.

Oh, the joys of working away from home!  (Sarcasm intended.)

You control the quality of the air you breathe at your home office.  You are no longer subjected to scented products the rest of the office just can’t do without.  You choose the scent of your candles, your air freshener, and your types of floor cleaners as well as any other allergy triggers or offending smells.  If one room develops an offensive scent for whatever reason, you can choose to move your work into another room until the smell is brought under control.

So, chalk up one more reason working from home is a positive and be thankful.  You can choose office scents that make sense.

This is a guest post by Shawnee Bowlin, one of the featured writers

Dress for success whether in your home office or elsewhere at work.

Do Your Clothes Interfere with Your Job?

This is a guest post by Shawnee Bowlin, one of the featured writers on our work from home network.

If you spend more time worrying about your comfort during the day than your work projects, maybe it’s time you did something about your clothing. Uncomfortable clothing can distract from your ability to concentrate.

Dressing for success means more than looking respectable. It also means you must be comfortable with your choice of clothing. Squirming because of ill-fitting clothes will take away from your ability to get complete attention from other co-workers or from your superiors. Tight clothing that makes you feel restricted in movement can create body movements of which you may not be fully aware. How can anyone possibly take you serious when you can’t hold your body still while you speak to them? They may respond in a distracted manner and get odd looks on their faces from trying to remain polite.

Wearing inappropriate clothing may also make you more self-conscious. Trying a new look is a great idea if it is first sampled before you must return to work. The clothing that makes you feel like you must constantly pay attention to how you move will take away from job performance.

Clothing that is too loose will cause you to constantly readjust the way it fits. It can also get hung up at inopportune moments, such as in drawers or on chair arms and on door handles. If your sleeves drag across the items on your desk, you could knock over a bottle of liquid paper and slide your material across that important copy you absolutely must keep clean of any defects.

If you think that dressing for success only applies to those lucky souls who have jobs outside the home, you could be wrong. It has been said that work environment influences ability to be productive. Your choice of clothing can produce the same negative impact. Even if you work from home, you may need to dress like a winner to perform like one. While it may be true that you prefer the home office job over the outside types because of the relaxed dress code, your subconscious may pick up on your sloppy clothing choices and leak negative influence into your work.

Some styles and colors belong on that romantic date, but certainly not in the office setting. If you are trying to catch the eye of someone at work, it could be to your benefit to keep a tight rein on your choice of clothing. Trying too hard can just as well turn off the attraction as turn it on.

Do you go to work with stains on your shirt from your toddler’s morning breakfast? This could be the reason your supervisor passed over your name at promotion time. Do you wear wrinkled clothing because of failure to plan your wardrobe for work? This could be the reason the rest of the office crew avoided asking you to join them for lunch.

Even if you are successful in a home business, your image to others could make or break an important business deal should you ever need to meet someone in person. If your business is doing less than it could, perhaps it’s the careless profile picture you posted online while wearing your flannel pajamas? You may be surprised at the outcome of your performance, too, if you take your home office image more seriously.

You must respect yourself for others to respect you. Keep your clothes from interfering with your job. Dress for success whether in your home office or elsewhere at work.

Freelance writers update.

A special thanks to everyone who showed interest in suporting the growth of this blog and their own portfolio by writing for us. I`ve already contacted a few people and will be contacting the rest by end today. We look forward to your submissions.

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