Working from home

[ANUSHIKA]

I have read a few times before about people that work from home for companies normally it's only doing things like mail shots or one woman screwed together light fittings for a factory and received 24p per one. I was wondering if anyone knew any companies or knew how I could arrange this for someone????

[Pinotage]

Be careful - most (all?) adverts for homeworking are swindles which require applicants to pay some money upfront, then the work they do is always rejected on quality grounds. Who these days needs anyone to address labels at home when a machine will do it from a computer database in moments? Also recent changes in employment law make this kind of outplacement working less attractive to the few legitimate companies - such as arran sweater knitters.

[flirty41]

I did work from home for a company which produced electrical components. They advertised in the local paper, and we had to go on a 'training session' which lasted no more than a couple of hours. The job was to put together the electrical components - the more tricky the job the more you got paid, and the fewer you had to do (100s as opposed to 1000s), but you only had a certain amount of time to do it in. If you missed the deadline you didn't get paid. You had no choice in what you were given most of the time. If faults were found in the work it was rejected and you had to do it again. The pay was peanuts for the amount of hours that it took. I remember spending every afternoon and evening and weekend slogging away and being up till gone 1.00 am most nights trying to get the work finished. My friend packed Christmas cards. She used to spend every free minute doing the things. Apart from the amount of time involved, it also takes up a lot of space in your house. I think people who work from home are exploited. They're seen as an easy target for cheap labour because they have 'nothing better to do'. If you want to earn peanuts and have no life, home work is for you. I wouldn't recommend it, myself.

[xyzzy@bok]

Scams, all scams; it's not what you produce, it's that they reject. they don't give a damn about the product, just want to sell you a kit of labels, parts, whatever. :-)