[jumpy]

^^

I can sort of back that up with experience of a 'work from home telemarketing' job I've been engaged with ... got info through jobcentre before holidays, attended online training seminar today, plus tried some live calling... urgh. The catch? Advertised as no cold calling/selling, merely conduction surveys, the reality, you are cold calling and selling by proxy via the survey and on behalf of 'national money savers'. The real catch is that although you are logged into their remote dialer for X number of hours a day with an advertised rate of £6.10ph, you are actually only getting paid for the time your login is actually dialling or conducting surveys.
9/10 people put the phone down and as each call starts a new survey, you need to spend time closing the survey otherwise you don't get logged as making the survey.
What this means: you might well be connected for what seems to be a 'flat rate' wage, but you are only paid when surveying or dialling... which is something quite different in terms of hours worked than the stated 6.5 hrs a day monday to friday.

I'm sick and tired of applying for jobs through the jobcentre that declare 'hourly rate' yet time and again prove to be nothing of the sort.

Sorry, a bit OT, but somebody is making money somewhere just ain't me.
Better luck with a CAD job interview next monday eh?