Tuesday 25 August 2009

I love Google!

*I love Google! and the Web in general*

It's a great age we live in where company's activities are so transparent - they definitely can't get away with as much anymore, and almost any information on anything can be found online at the click of a button. Take my recent experience with London Marketing Services, a company which claimed to train managers from the bottom up, never disclosing that the job was door-to-door sales at entry-level and commission based with no basic salary (or, a small annual salary plus 40% commission I'm informed by other bloggers) until you turned up for the second stage 'observation day' being told to wear comfortable shoes and worked a full day 12.30pm to 8.30pm. If I hadn't found two existing blogs that evening I got the call I would have wasted a whole day of researching credible job opportunities, as in ones companies don't mislead potential employees about.

Ok, so the credibility of many sources on the web are questionable - something that has been drilled into me constantly from university lecturers. But what I enjoy so much is that the Web's like this one big impersonal (or personal if you like) forum where one is able to interact with people all over the world...take for example this site I found through an Oprah article: www.urbanbaby.com, where people go to ask advice or vent feelings annonymously, e.g. "I have cheated on my husband, what should I do?"...completely shocking to me (but so, well, frankly, nice to see that people are able to talk to strangers who do not know who you are personally about issues that concern more of us than we'd think!), but why wouldn't I expect this stuff to be online considering free porn is?!!!

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