Legitimate Work from Home Companies?

[raenyny]

They are definetly still hiring at kgb...I just finished all the training including the simulation and got the email to register

 

[jenseib]

They are definetly still hiring at kgb...I just finished all the training including the simulation and got the email to register

Also once you past the challenge, be sure to put you can work night hours, as they tend to need more poeple then and it will make you more desirable. The challenge is weird. I know when I did I think I took it like 20 times or more before I got all passed. Sometimes I swore the answers were right, and it just wouldn't let me through. Once you fail a section, just end the test and start over again. Also try to do it on firefox, as thats the browser you need to use for kgb.

 

[loveysbydesign]

I finally passed for kgb!

 

[Anal Annie]

What is arise.com? What is that about? What do you have to do?

My computer runs REALLY slow - do you need a fast computer for KGB?

Has anybody found any recent work on CloudCrowd?? I see they've changed some of their posted rates for a couple of things but I still never seem to be able to catch any work to do...

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

From what i have read about Arise there is a $200.00 fee!

I just applied with 1-800 flowers.com I am schedule for the offer call tomorrow. What I have heard is that they call review the company policy over the phone and if you agree they hire you on the spot for a customer service job.

What is arise.com? What is that about? What do you have to do?

My computer runs REALLY slow - do you need a fast computer for KGB?

Has anybody found any recent work on CloudCrowd?? I see they've changed some of their posted rates for a couple of things but I still never seem to be able to catch any work to do...

 

[jenseib]

Don;t do anything that you have to pay a fee for. Some work at home jobs that girls have bragged about on these boards in the past is a company that sells helath stuff, but you have to buy so much a month to be able to sell it. It was a bunch of crud in my book. I would never use the stuff, and if I did not the amount I would have to buy each month. I've always read that if you have to apy you can get yourself into trouble!

 

[buzzlady]

Do your research. Paying a fee is not always a scam. I know for a fact that LiveOps requires a fee for background/credit check. I've been with LO for 2.5 years and paid $35 at the time. The fee is more now, but still legit.

 

[Anal Annie]

Bump...still looking for new work on CrowdCloud...anybody else find anything lately??

How about the slow computer thing...will that work OK for KGB??

I agree about the fee thing...looking to MAKE money not PAY money!!

 

[edk35]

You should NEVER pay a fee to work from home. I mean if it is something like a headset or something sure, but legit work from home jobs should not ask for a fee. I guess if you are doing some type of Mary Kary, Pampered Chef or Avon sure there might be a small start up fee, but for jobs you find online.....they should be fee free.

 

[edk35]

Do your research. Paying a fee is not always a scam. I know for a fact that LiveOps requires a fee for background/credit check. I've been with LO for 2.5 years and paid $35 at the time. The fee is more now, but still legit.

Now I could see that type of fee but these others where they want you to pay for training is bogus. I work for a from from home company and I didn't pay for training at all.

 

[funkychunkymonkey]

I signed up for cloud crown, worked and am on week 2 of waiting to be paid. Im getting mad. I emailed them too and got no response!

 

[jenseib]

Coudcrowd still basically has no work. They sent out a note saying it may be another week or so. They now have like 10,000 members and not enough work at all. I think that jumped from like 600 the second week they were up, so they are very overwelmed, and honestly I don't think it will be company to be able to make a living of any sort of on at this time. They have ALOT of problems with there system so far.
With kgb I would say you need a fairly fast connection. My computer isn't super fast, but not the slowest either. But I get frustrated when it seems to be running slower and it does effect how I get my questions and how fast I can answer them as well. If you have dial up, there would be no way to do it.

 

[Dowellfam]

KGB is definitely still hiring. I completed the simulation on Saturday, was the link to fill out the employment paperwork yesterday and this morning was given the link to sign up for shifts to begin working. For those of you making a few hundred per month on this, how much time do you dedicate to it?

Thanks to all of you for recommending this site! I hope it pays off for me too!

I'd also like to hear more info about 1-800- flowers!

 

[disneygoof]

I took the test for KGB and passed, but now I'm not sure if I want to sign up because of needing to give them your bank account info...

Thanks

That's a very good point. Does anyone know if you can use a paypal account for payment?

 

[jenseib]

No paypal. Only a bank account at this point

 

[Weluvdisny]

Hey everyone -

I just went to CloudCrowd and it was Maginot. And it had alot more opportunities to make money (like take pictures in Vegas?)

It looks like a form of CC but just wanted everyone's feedback.

 

[zulemara]

If you are good with phone work, check out vipdesk.com

I am on their IT support team and I can vouch 100% this is a legitimate company. Think of it as a call center job, except you do it from home instead of a call center. I absolutely love it! They have several clients and right now they are doing a major hiring for the Eddie Bauer program

 

[Anal Annie]

I got an email letter from CloudCrowd today. It sounds like they are trying very hard to reform the site and become a real professional operation: I am pleased with their level of communication for the most part.

October 29, 2009

Dear CloudCrowd Worker,

I'd like to give you another update on progress. You have been very patient as we implement various infrastructure improvements.

Credibility
I'd like to talk first about Credibility. We recently finished recalculating everyone's Credibility using revised algorithms that we believe are significantly more accurate. In about 33% of the cases, we adjusted a Credibility down, and in about 33% of the Cases, we adjusted a Credibility up. We don't like doing this kind of arbitrary change, because we know it's jarring, and we hope to avoid it in the future.

Why do it at all? Well, we're trying to address a very fundamental issue: Bad work needs to be rejected, and Good work should be approved. That isn't happening enough yet. Many of you have shared with us the frustration of getting work that you believed was absolutely correct rejected. When that happens incorrectly, it's often because someone who disagreed with you has an overly generous Credibility rating.

The main solution is to tighten things up. If you earn a Credibility of 80 and you're in disagreement with someone with a Credibility of 30, you will "win" the decision. If they have an improperly earned Credibility of 90, you're in jeopardy of losing.

As a result, we're continuing to evolve both the basic Credibility engine and the tools we use to improve it. One of the biggest new tools is what we're calling Check Questions

Check Questions
On Tuesday, we started to inject a small number of "canned" questions into the mix. Each Worker is programmed to get a small number of these Check Questions mixed in to their regular questions. Each CQ has been carefully evaluated, mainly to determine if it's sufficiently unambiguous. Most CQ's involve testing to see whether a submission that should be Rejected is properly Rejected, but some involve testing whether, for example, an Excellent piece of work gets a Good or Excellent grade from its Reviewer.

The penalty for failing a Check Question is tough: we reduce your Credibility to 25 and put you on Probation. Our hard argument is that if you're following the directions, you won't have any problem ace'ing these questions. If you get them right, we'll pay you for them just as if they were real questions

Review & Appeal
But what if you think we were wrong? We are getting close to implementing an Appeal system that will allow you to appeal the ones you think were Rejected wrongly. We're also about to put in a basic solution you can use to view your old work, reviewing both the answer you gave and the answer the Crowd concluded was right.

Big Drops in Credibility
One thing that has been noted is how severely Credibility can drop. There are two ways you can lose a great deal of Credibility all at once. One way is if you blow a Check Question. The other is if an Administrator happens to hand-review a piece of work you did, enters an answer, and the answer disagrees with yours. In both of these scenarios, you can lose 75 points instantly. The logic in both is the same. If you're in serious disagreement with known right answers, we can't count on your work as much as we had thought. You might ask "what if the Administrator is wrong?" It doesn't happen much, because the only people doing Administration right now are very strong on this subject matter. However, it has been seen a couple times to happen. That's another good situation where Appeal will be useful.

Upcoming Projects
By the end of this week, we will post a new project which has to do with finding online data to populate a catalog. We also should have a lot of new tasks, as soon as we get some of the above items in place. In addition, we're working on a feature we call Credentialling. Once we have that, we'll be able to get the Rewrite tasks back up.

New Blog & Forums
I'm pleased to report that we have gotten our Blog up. Information like this letter will be posted to the Blog, and we'll be shifting our forums from Facebook to our own forum setup.

Overall
Thanks again for your patience. We really aren't set up to handle this large a Worker base, and it shows. We're delighted to have this level of interest, and we hope you'll be patient as we continue to make major improvements. I am convinced that we will build this into a huge platform offering an incredibly rich selection of tasks and projects to Workers. Now if we can just get through our childhood and adolescence!

Respectfully,
Alex Edelstein
CEO
CloudCrowd


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[jenseib]

Hey everyone -

I just went to CloudCrowd and it was Maginot. And it had alot more opportunities to make money (like take pictures in Vegas?)

It looks like a form of CC but just wanted everyone's feedback.

What does maginot mean?

 

[Weluvdisny]

What does maginot mean?

It's what was coming up when I went to www.cloudcrowd.com. It's not going to that site anymore. It's going right to cloudcrowd. Weird.