{"id":2016,"date":"2017-02-22T08:30:24","date_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=2016"},"modified":"2017-02-22T08:31:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T14:31:07","slug":"sometimes-spam-is-entertaining","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/information-technology\/sometimes-spam-is-entertaining\/","title":{"rendered":"Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure <a href=\"http:\/\/jobs.systemoneservices.com\/wicEJw\/business-analyst-part-time-information-technology-chicago-illinois-71265?originalsource=Indeed.com&amp;alid=573d33fde4b0f90143fe2b72\">this link<\/a> will disappear shortly, but I received an email with it. They claim this is a &#8220;Business Analyst&#8221; role. Here&#8217;s a quote from the link though:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>This roles is starting off as a 6 month contract.\u00a0 This role is for 10 hours per week at a starting rate of $25.00\/hr.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>That is sooooo far below market rate it would be laughable if they weren&#8217;t serious about it. Can you say &#8220;illegal aliens are us?&#8221; I knew you could. They claim this is a downtown Chicago contract if that helps you envision what market rate really is for a BA.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure this link will disappear shortly, but I received an email with it. They claim this is a &#8220;Business Analyst&#8221; role. Here&#8217;s a quote from the link though: This roles is starting off as a 6 month contract.\u00a0 This role is for 10 hours per week at a starting rate of $25.00\/hr. That is sooooo far below market rate it would be laughable if they weren&#8217;t serious about it. Can you say &#8220;illegal aliens &hellip; <a title=\"Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining\" class=\"bnm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/information-technology\/sometimes-spam-is-entertaining\/\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[1282,15,507],"class_list":["post-2016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-information-technology","category-thank-you-sir-may-i-have-another","tag-business-analyst","tag-consulting","tag-market-rate","bnm-entry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining &#8211; Logikal Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.logikalsolutions.com\/wordpress\/information-technology\/sometimes-spam-is-entertaining\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Sometimes SPAM is Entertaining &#8211; Logikal Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I&#8217;m sure this link will disappear shortly, but I received an email with it. 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