Buy a Fake Job Reference

You can buy a good job reference if you can't earn it the old fashioned way. Buy a Job Reference is a real company that will sell you a fake job reference. These are the details and the reaction from one laid off older worker who has some sympathy for the long term unemployed.

Buy a Job Reference will sell you almost any fake job reference you want if you're unemployed and desperate. You specify the industry along with your imaginary title and salary. They claim they direct your reference calls to a real human resources staffer at a company in your chosen field. Packages start at $39.95 for 1 job history for 1 month and 5 calls from your potential employers, whichever comes first. More extensive packages are also available so the long term unemployed could create a whole new identity sort of. While you're at it, you can even buy phony apartment references.

A lot of people may be scandalized, but I've come to feel at least a little sympathy for laid off older workers and other long term unemployed people who are trying to survive this new great depression. Sure, most reasonable people still have at least 3 contacts who will vouch for them. On the other hand, many companies are refusing to see any applicants who are not currently employed.

Buy a Job Reference stresses that they'll let you claim you're still working. If people have to lie to survive, they may do it. It's a horrible situation for everybody, but some companies should blame themselves for being part of the problem.

Fortunately, I began Buddhist studies long before being laid off at 50 so I'm not even tempted to go this route. If companies are going to lay people off for economic reasons and then refuse to consider hiring them because they were laid off for economic reasons, I don't want to associate with such companies. On balance, I think their conduct is much more despicable than buying a fake job reference even though I don't approve of that either.

I won't be calling 877-FAKE JOB myself, but I'm hesitant to condemn unemployed people who might do so. I have no problem sentencing the companies who refuse to interview laid off workers to reading Les Miserables. Buying a fake job reference may be the modern equivalent of a hungry Jean Valjean stealing a loaf of bread.