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CTA
members tell their stories: Part 9
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Victim of work-at-home scam speaks out.
Last November 2003 I had the job I had worked so hard to acquire
as a Customer Serive Advisor. Just loved it! Seven weeks into it
I had my second minor vehicle accident. I was let go
immediately. That's the contract deal with most dealerships. I
was so heart broken. Devistated
So I'm at home and immediatly get
in front of my computer on-line looking for work. I came across
this WorkFromHome.org site which sets you up believing there's
hope for work at home jobs for hundreds of telecommut jobs. Lots
of opportunity lots of work. Companies are looking for people.
I'm excited now there's hope for me. "Caution They even post
these jobs on career sites so take caution."
I checked this site out a little
bit too quickly. Paid them the $29.95 for their process fee
through Billingnow.com careers 978-580-0310 then got my e-mail
of thankyou very much for joining with a login reference number.
Now that gave me a warm feeling that I just might have done the
right thing for myself to get working quickly and maybe I
wouldn't have to collect U.I. fantastic. Now I'm feeling better
about things. Did everything they posted on their site I was to
do to make myself known to companies and waited and waited and
waited. Weeks went by, I heard nothing from any company that I
submitted my resume to. Now that's scary because all my personal
information is on my resume. You know how stupid I feel by now.
I have only myself to blame for putting myself out there.
That was the last I heard from
that website. I've called the phone number that was on my credit
card invoice several times, long distance and left messages
because that's the only connection I had outside of e-mailing
the website which never responded back to me. And these e-mails
with my resume attached I had sent to these companies I have not
gotten any responce back. What are we in now the middle of Feb.
That was the first and the last I will ever do that again. I
will not pay somebody for me to work.
Heidi Bender, Kitchener,
ON |
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IS security expert gets some of his
life back with telework: to get I have been
teleworking for approximately
six months. After spending 2hrs a day commuting for over 6yrs, I
decided it was time to get some of my life back. Commuting now
involves fighting household traffic on the way down the stairs
to my office. I work as an information systems security
consultant and project manager. Utilizing Internet and voice
over IP technology, I support clients all over the globe. My job
is no longer impacted by traffic or bad weather.
Bruce Saumure,
Information Systems Security Consultant |
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Head of Canadian Chemical Producers
Association offers telework insights and advice: With
a bit of help from Bob Fortier in the early days, we have been
teleworking for a few years now. Telework has now completely
integrated it into our organization, to the point where it is
really not an initiative anymore. One group of three
professionals works one day a week at home. Several staff only
have portables which they take everywhere-on the road, home etc.
They have the flexibility to work basically anywhere depending
on travel, what they are working on etc. This is really up to
them and needs no formal approval. At this point, no one wants
to telework from home full time. This is good because we believe
that telework works best when done on a part-time basis. In
fact, I will not authorize telework arrangements that are longer
than a day or so a week. Telework has not resulted in a major
decline in office contact. Staff have figured out they need to
be around a certain amount of the time or they are reachable by
e mail. My advice, which I understand reflects best practice, is
that telework should be restricted to employees with a history
of good performance. Richard
Paton, President and Chief Executive Officer,
Canadian Chemical Producers
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Winnipeg teleworker would love to
increase use of telework Currently, I
telecommute one day per week and the rest of the week I am in
the office. I would like to telecommute more often. I enjoy it
because I can be at home with my family and work uninterrupted
at times. It's a convenient form of work and you don't have to
dress up or drive through rush hour traffic.
Teresa Graham, Accountant |
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Telework easy for University of Guelph
Professor Currently I both write and research
from home. I frequently interact with students any day of the
week and from both home and the cottage. this allows prompt
response to concerned students especially during exam and report
writing time. Occaisionally I embark on distance course teaching
but find it too time consuming and lacking in the richness
required when teaching topics such as finance/accounting that
require thinking in particular methods that may require
development in the students to fully use the flexibility of
distance work and communication.
Professor Currie |
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Telework allows
company President to get away from Toronto rat-race, while
enhancing creativity and client service. After
having a busy studio in downtown Toronto, my husband & I decided
to move to the "country" to a beautiful, park-like 10 acres with
cows as our neighbours. Our new work-at-home situation has
benefited all of us tremendoursly, and allowed us to spend
tremendous, quality time with our now three-year old son. I feel
strongly that our new telework arrange enhances our creativity
and allows us to provide better service to our clients. Most
clients get it, but I just finished a proposal for a client who
questioned our work-at-home relationship. We both know we never
want to jump into that stressful, commuting rat race again!
Cheryl
Connors, President, Inkwell Communications Inc. |
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Video Conferencing executive lets team telework: I
have my headquarters at home and all my team members work from
home. Our company has a patent pending
multipoint-to-multipoint desktop-to-deskstop 100% IP
multimedia Conferencing system with Voice, Video, Data and
Chat over IP. We offer Zero Call Costs after the initial
purchase of a enterprise or ASP offering. We are the only
company in the world offering MULTIPOINT Video conferencing
with a low monthly fee for the ASP model and an excellent
price for the Enterprise model. Paul
Soni, VP/Video Conferencing |
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Business
Development professional from Canada's northlands sees
recruitment benefits of telework We are a creative
marketing company doing work both locally and throughout North
America. The lifestyle in our community is second to none and
we are working to attract new business and the inward
migration of jobs. Telework is a great idea. I personally
would like to see talented people move here and telework where
they can. Individuals would enjoy a lower cost of living and
all that life has to offer living in the heart of the Great
Lakes. There is no need to live stressed out with crowds, high
costs, and traffic jams to have a successful career. Our
company (Lucidia) has
recently hired 5 people from the Toronto area who simply
wanted out. Some left high paying jobs to move to our
community. Lou Derrer,
Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario |
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Ontario
long distance provider uses telework to advantage:
Myself and 2 other partners provide long distance services to
the SME market in Canada from our homes. We have established
commissioned agents across Ontario who market LD4Less
to their own network of business contacts. They to work from
their home. All of LD4Less services compliment the work from
home person; low cost long distance and toll free service, as
well as 'reservationless' conferencing and unified messaging
make it simple for teleworkers to function from their
respective homes without losing the link to the outside world.
LD4Less will be adding agents in other Provinces to expand our
market across Canada. Donald
Rudman, Kettleby Ontario |
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