Survey finds workers willing to do 'dirty' jobs
No matter how banal, backbreaking or demeaning a job might be, someone can be found to do it. At least that's what an informal poll by Express Personnel Services has found.
The Oklahoma City-based employment firm has hired temporary workers willing to wipe blood and other body fluids from Plexiglas at hockey games for $7 an hour, chase deer off an airport runway for $8 an hour and pour thousands of cans of rancid beer down a drain for $6 an hour.
And here's a couch potato's dream position: getting paid $11 an hour to appear to be working. Express said a company in Redmond, Wash., actually hired three temps to look busy and professional to make visitors think it had a larger staff.
Linda Haneborg, vice president for marketing and public relations at Express, said the takers tend to be motivated by a desire for variety and other factors.
Phone books, friends' advice top references for lawyers
When in need of someone to protect their legal interests, 50 percent of Americans go to the Yellow Pages, according to a study commissioned by lawyers.com, Martindale-Hubbell's online lawyer directory.
But for 75 percent of those surveyed, the foremost resource for legal counsel was family and friends, said Michael Gibeault, vice president of business development and new products for Martindale-Hubbell, based in New Providence, N.J.
Even more "startling," he said, the study revealed that most Americans spend more time researching furniture and major appliances than they do shopping for a lawyer.
"We want people to check lawyers out and do their due diligence before doing business with them," said Gibeault, whose company makes money matching lawyers with clients.
Motley Fool: Name that company
For most of the 1800s, aluminum was a semiprecious metal and scarcer than silver. In the late 1880s, though, my young founder discovered an economical way to make aluminum. He helped drive down the price of aluminum from $4.86 a pound in 1888 to 78 cents in 1893 and then 20 cents in the 1930s. I've always been the world's premiere aluminum company. I also make packaging machinery, vinyl siding, plastic bottles and closures, fiber optics, and electrical distribution systems for cars and trucks. One of my first products was a teakettle. I employ 140,000 people in some 36 nations. Who am I?
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