If you saw the original WorkAtHomeTruth site (I could show it to you, but it's too embarrassing…but you can still find it in Archive.org if you want) – you can see why. It was a horrible site.

But nowadays the complaints are few and far between. Basically very rare.

When they do come in they are basically some nonsensical rant.

I got one from a grandmother recently that fits the bill. What's odd is that this person has been a subscriber of the WorkAtHomeTruth newsletter for over 2 and a 1/2 years and one day she wakes up and decides to make an unfounded accusation such as this (Hint: I don't sell any $17.00 products):

Grandma says: "I will report you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! you just got $17.00 from me and proved you are a scam and anyone who can take money from a GrandMother,, trying to make enough money to help her Grandchildren, how could you???????????"

My reply: "OK. I have no idea what you're talking about as I don't sell anything for $17.00 that I'm aware of (I don't at all, actually). In fact right now I don't even sell any products on this site at all. I do refer people to other sites that sell products sometime.

But if you feel like you need to report me. Go ahead."

Paul Schlegel
Founder, WorkAtHomeTruth"

My takeaway on this:

• Be yourself.
• The customer is not always right.
• No need to be a prick (although I get very close if not all the way there sometimes).
• Don't try to count the number of exclamation points or question marks a person uses if they use more than say three or four. It can really give you a headache and blurred vision.

"You recommended that I not associate with any site that requests you to invest any money to start up. Then you request $ for a list of recommended sites."

Huh? While that's mostly true for people looking for telecommuting positions, it's not absolutely true. In fact if you read the rules you'll see that I don't explicitly say to never pay for a database of telecommuting positions.

And when it comes to business our section on self-funding businesses here merely suggests starting with a very low-cost business and reinvesting the profits in growth.

We owe a lot to men like him, but I feel saddened that I could not help him because he insisted on screaming at me instead of time to listen. He clearly still has a sharp mind, too.

I actually took time away from my family to call this man and help him for free. Yet his only motivation for talking to me seemed to be so he could scream at me. And he couldn't give me any reason for it other than perhaps because he had been ripped off by OTHER people.

The real problem is that internet culture has gone too far beyond him for him to understand and despite the fact that he's been scammed several times he still insists that he just wants something easy he can do to make $300 to $400 a week.

I did lose my temper with him – which was hard to do because I have a great deal of respect for him – but I could not get him to stop screaming at me.

The only upside is that I was able to provide information to a lady the other day that hopefully helped her to get $197.00 from one of those crazy rebate processing sites.

Can you give me a business that would hire me to do some sort of assembly work for them at home that is completely legimate!

I want something part-time!  I have a full-time job now but something else just to help pay off some bills!  

Thank-you!  

I pray you are legigimate!  

Debbie

A:

There are approximately ZERO legitimate home assembly
companies.

You can find a few in the book sold here:

http://www.workathomesourcebook.com/

Which you should be able to find at your local library or get through
interlibrary loan.

Follow-up Q from the person:

Why do you say there are ZERO legimate assembly jobs, but if I get this book I will find a few legimate jobs in there!  It doesn't make sense! 

There is or there isn't.

Debbie

Follow-up Answer:

I said *approximately* zero.
There's a difference between *approximately* and
*exactly*.

But there's only about 15 in that book and you have to
live near the company to do them.

Which is why I suggested you get it from the library, not buy it.

Follow-up Reply:

Thank-you for your assistance and replying so quickly! 

I want so much to find something to add to my income! 

Thank-you again! 

I just know others have been burned on at home scams!  

Debbie

Follow-up response:

I would also suggest for right now you ONLY use
free resources such as:

http://www.flexjobs.com
http://www.workathometruth.com/work-from-home-companies.php
http://www.workathometruth.com/work-at-home-phone-jobs.php

And make sure you still follow the rules here:
http://www.workathometruth.com/Rules.php

You may also want to consider writing articles for
Associated content – there's a video towards the
bottom of this page:

http://hubpages.com/hub/Make_Money_Writing_for_the_Web

Paul

Here's an example. Today I got an email from a guy named Dennis who wrote me this:

"Your site seems to be a BIG ad for the HOME JOBSTOP. Almost all of the ads there are for people doing more professional ,office type work. IS there any home jobs for non professional type people?"

Now, those of you that I've helped personally probably will be shocked at how I responded – after all I'm usually pretty cool, calm, and collected – at least about 95% of the time (I'm trying to get that up – I really am). But when I hit BURNOUT MODE I'm really not that much fun to be around. And in this case, running this site actually adds to the stress as there are MANY ways I could be spending my time that would significantly reduce my stress levels.

Who knows, maybe I'll take this course a friend suggested to me:

 http://us3.artofliving.org/mo/stlouis

Anything for stress-reduction is "OK" with me.

Anyhow, here's the not so nice way I responded to the guy (after all this site is called "WorkAtHomeTruth", not "The pretend i'm always a really nice and helpful guy site":

Yes, it's one big ad for HomeJobStop…that's why I personally
spent weeks compiling this list of FREE phone jobs:

http://www.workathometruth.com/work-at-home-phone-jobs.php

Spent two months of my life compiling the mystery shopping report
that I give away for free including spending over $300 of my own
money researching it here:

http://www.workathometruth.com/Mystery-Shopper-Insiders-Report.php

Put together this list of FREE resources for finding home jobs:

http://www.workathometruth.com/work-from-home-companies.php

Put up FlexJobs AHEAD of HomeJobStop on the
Telecommuting page here:

http://www.workathometruth.com/Telecommuting-jobs.php

Spent a week researching free information for the disabled
here:

http://www.workathometruth.com/disability.php

Normally I might cut you some slack. But in this
case you are WAY out of line.

PERSONALLY helped at least a dozen people recover
money, including one women I helped recover
over $4,000.

Normally I'd cut you some slack, but YOU are way
out of line.

Grow up.

I took the liberty of removing you from the
newsletter.

Good luck in your endeavors.

Sorry, whoever you are, but this site BURNS ME OUT
because of all the FREE help I give, so i just have
to conserve energy and focus on my real business
sites that pay the bills.

Paul

What can I say? I'm not proud of how I responded to the guy, but it's the truth and, well, there it is.

Time to take that breathing course, I guess.

Paul

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