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Piece Work

Has anyone had any recent experience of piecework ?

my overall impression of this is that you get very little for doing tedious "envelope stuffing/addressing"

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  • yung
    yung Posts: 700 Forumite
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    indeed it does get a bit tedious that is because you are paid by the amount of work you do which mean that to get more money you have to do more work.
    Yung
    Early Retiree debt & stress free. and Joined the SKI club:j

  • Plum_Pie
    Plum_Pie Posts: 1,285 Forumite
    My limited knowledge of mass-mailings is that large commercial organisations usually have envelope-stuffing machines and smaller/poorer/non-profit orgs usually hire temps for a day or two. Most small ads for this kind of piece work are scams.

    (My first post...hope this helps).
  • Megatimbo
    Megatimbo Posts: 156 Forumite
    Hello NozzerMac ,please be careful of this so called piecework if you are responding to a newspaper ad or such like firstly find out if its a bona fide company,also do not send any money "up front" plus they have to pay you the minumum wage even at home.
    Sorry if its a bit harsh but dont want you to get scammed old chap :)
    especially this time of year :)
    Regards M

    Sorry plum pie beat me to it in replying :)


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