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Help leper Matt the beggar
- Thread starter Spiderman
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Are you displaying these on a sidewalk to pedestrians?
Spiderman
Veteran Member
Yes, regularly! Lots of people take pictures of the signs. Some call me but ask me to do something illegal.
So far, they aren't comfortable hiring me, but they don't harrass me anymore now that I'm asking for odd jobs.
I was hoping you weren't using these on freeway exit ramps or intersections. I bit wordy for that application.
Anyway, I think they are all potentially good. However, I would be hesitant to pay a beggar hourly. There has been no interview process and therefore the potential employer is putting him/herself at risk of hiring someone that is going to milk the clock or not complete the job correctly, if at all.
It would be better to offer to work and be paid by the job. I'd be less reluctant to hire you if I knew I was paying you a flat rate upon completion.
Anyway, I think they are all potentially good. However, I would be hesitant to pay a beggar hourly. There has been no interview process and therefore the potential employer is putting him/herself at risk of hiring someone that is going to milk the clock or not complete the job correctly, if at all.
It would be better to offer to work and be paid by the job. I'd be less reluctant to hire you if I knew I was paying you a flat rate upon completion.
Sorry, saw this after I posted my last reply. If you are in traffic, you are going to want to make your message substantially more brief unless your intent is to cause an accident. No one has time to read a book as they are driving in traffic.
Spiderman
Veteran Member
Great advice!
Father Heathen
Veteran Member
Like what?
Spiderman
Veteran Member
Like "20 bucks to slash my ex girlfriends tire".
See? Get paid by the job. That would have paid substantially more than $8/hr.
(although it likely would have landed you in jail)
Salvador
RF's Swedenborgian
See? Get paid by the job. That would have paid substantially more than $8/hr.
Three meals daily, smuggled in disposable cell phones, and a nightly cot; unfortunately, jail might not necessarily be a deterrent for some people to commit crimes.
Salvador
RF's Swedenborgian
I've seen many beggar signs displayed near street corners; a $1,000/monthly universal basic income benefit system funded by a 10 percent VAT system as proposed by 2020 Democratic Presidential hopeful Andrew Yang would likely get rid of the need for these beggar signs.
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Most people are too scared to let a stranger know where their house is and what is in it. Outdoor work frightens them less, so concentrate on that.
I also brainstorm at you some beautiful poems from famous authors that people will recognize. People might stop just to read them or ask you who wrote them.
How about this one?
Whose woods these are I think I know.
His house is in the village though;
He will not see me stopping here
To watch his woods fill up with snow.
That's the first part of a short poem by Robert Frost called Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. Notice how it indirectly talks about you and creates a feeling that might help but doesn't overtly charge anyone of being evil or selfish.
Why waste time sitting by some signs,design a leaflet and get it printed it,deliver to a lower middle class demographic area and make sure your mobile phone is charged.