Really, how did we live before Google?
I have been very loosely looking for a job. I don’t need a job but some extra money and time out of the house might be nice. So I’ve been checking out Craigslist and sending resumes here and there. Mostly for Veterinary Receptionist positions because that’s what I did before I became a SAHM.
Yesterday I saw a posting for a Surrogate Coordinator.
Awesome!
The posting just listed organization, personality, fast learner and former surrogate. I decided to send over my resume.
The attorney, Steven R. Liss, called me today. We talked on the phone for nearly an hour. He seemed nice enough but as with most attorney’s I’ve met, he liked to talk….and talk….He told me I sounded “perfect” and wanted me to come down tomorrow (Saturday) to meet.
YAY!
Well, not exactly…
I went to my surrogacy forum to see if I could get some info on this attorney and agency. Usually, good and bad information can be found from other surrogates. Surprisingly, there was nothing. One comment that reflected a good experience with him.
So I Googled him.
HOLY COW!
Go ahead, Google: Steven R. Liss. You will get pages and pages of crap on this guy. Complaint after complaint on what a sleezebag he is. He’s taken money from people and never performed services. He’s solicited divorcing women to become surrogates for his agency offering discounted divorce fees. Then, the best ever: In July he was charged with “solicitation of MURDER (against his ex-wife) and allegations of spousal abuse and false imprisonment.”
Nice.
Do you think I should take the job?
I don’t think so.
Thank you to the Google Gods for saving me.
That is amazing! Thank goodness you Googled him!!! I love Google!
Holy fricken crap!
OMG that is crazy!!!
I emailed the guy. I tried to be polite and just say that the 1 hour commute would be too far for the pay weighing the cost of daycare and gas. He emailed me back that he would pay me more! LOL! Now I don’t know what to say.
Should I just say “no, you are a creepy (accused) murderer??”
LOL
Just tell him that after talking with your husband, you have decided that it isn’t a feasible opportunity. :
Ummm…I think you may want to pass on this guy. BUT – are you sure it’s the same dude?
Absolutely certain.
Wow. Good thing you googled him!
Honestly, you don’t owe him an explanation of why you don’t want to take the job.
The summer before I went to college I was searching for a summer job and this lady who owned the 3 Baskin Robbins stores around was someone I interviewed with. One the questions she asked was if I knew anyone who had ever worked for her. I told her I didn’t know.
Well, after the interview I started hearing from people who had worked for her that said she was full of crap. She’d make people clock out, and then stay for another hour or so cleaning, and apparently she made her money as a showgirl in Vegas (It had to have been years ago and she did not look good at all!). Well, she called and offered me a job, but it wasn’t working in the stores, it was babysitting her 16 year old son and I want to say her 8 year old daughter or something while she was gone, and it would pay more. Um, I was only 18. There is no way I was going to go hang out with her 16 year old son all day. It also included delivering things to all 3 stores, which I later heard that basically she made you drive back and forth between all 3 stores all day but you had to pay for your own gas. More and more things kept coming out about her that made me want to run.
When I told her I decided to not take the job, she literally started yelling at me over the phone, telling me I was an idiot for not taking it, and why did I even bother to apply, and all this crap. Umm yeah. Glad I didn’t work for her!
OMGosh! Scary for you! Glad you saw the warnings on her, too.
That is SCARY!
Uhh wow, yes thank goodness for Google.
Good thing you looked him up!
Dude, I google everyone and everything. I like to know things about people. Not bloggy people but I am sure I could find all kinds of information about anyone. I love to investigate. I am a really good Private investigator. Check out who is leading in the comments for the week! Woot!
WOOT for the comments you little cyber sleuth! lol
Holy crap batman – good thing you had the smarts to look!
Forget making up a story–tell him you saw the news piece about him and all the complaints on the Net and that you don’t need that kind of drama in your life! Run, Rhea, run the other way!
If he’s that much of a sleaze he doesn’t deserve to be let off easily. Close one, girl.