WHAT I LEARNED TODAY

1) The sheer volume of online job-listing scams out there is astounding - and not just in the obvious places like Craigslist. Allegedly reputable local publications, too. Those secret-shopper and fill-out-surveys blurbs are strictly hoaxville. Hope you already knew that.

2) And then there's the federal government. I got this gem from the Postal Service tonight:

I'm sure we guys all have that number right at our fingertips. No? Then maybe Selective Service itself can help. Oh, wait:


I'll repeat the key bit if you can't see the text. They do system maintenance not at 2 am on a Sunday when any sane organization would expect the least traffic, but on weekdays, and then the kicker - they also do maintenance at 7 pm (Eastern) on a weekday, and then they end at 2 am the next morning.

Only in the federal government do the computer maintenance guys keep bankers' hours.