We’ve all been there — interviewed at a company and heard the utopian spiel, only to find out after we get hired that it’s a nest of vipers. It’s difficult to get past the facade the company presents to prospective employees, unless we happen to know someone who works there.
Glassdoor.com lets current and former employees [...]
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Glassdoor: Skip the brochure, find out about that company from employees
Get 2 Human: How to sneak past automated phone answering services
The get2human web site has helpful instructions for how to quickly get through to a human being when you’re calling certain companies’ customer service lines. It lists hundreds of companies and shows what keys to hit on your phone, without waiting to listen to the droning messages, to reach a human from that company. Examples: Keep hitting ‘0′; Say ‘Agent’ [...]
Catalog Choice helps you stop the junk mail insanity
If a glossy paper publication full of photos of merchandise and instructions on how to order arrives in your mail box, and you wanted it to arrive, it is called a catalog. If you didn’t want it to arrive, it is called junk mail.
This free service lets you opt out of receiving any mailed catalog that’s [...]