Top Choosing Beggars of the Week (February 18, 2024): 'Please be my personal assistant with no guaranteed pay'

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Ben Weiss • Writer and Editor
Feb 18, 2024 8:00 AM EST

Sure, desperate times call for desperate measures, but no one anticipated this level of desperation. It's funny to see where the choosing beggars of the world decide to reveal themselves online. It's often on online marketplaces, social media direct messages, and job site postings. However, regardless of what they want and regardless of where they post, these individuals have no self-awareness, too much confidence, or all of the above.

The following collection of this week's top choosing beggars, compiled from the r/ChoosingBeggars subreddit, includes a neighbor who is always in the local social media group looking for help and dealing with a plethora of ridiculous circumstances, an offensive and since-deleted job posting, a choosing beggar demanding free delivery despite clear instructions that the desired item needed to be picked up, and a needy "employer" hiring an unpaid personal assistant. Keep scrolling below for the full posts and conversations. When you're done, check out this list of insane online comments.

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  • 01

    First, let's start with a multi-part one!

    URGENT: I need a ride to tomorrow, between 1-3:30 p.m. St. Vincent de Paul has me scheduled to come down to do an interview for financial assistance. I also need to print financial paperwork to bring, as proof for the meeting, so I'd like to go to Building to the Express Print & Copy, before we go down, so I can get the copies made (they only charge 5 cents per page, while the library charges 10 cents). Also, if you have time or need to me to hang out/wait for you to go to classes/do errands, I
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  • 02
    If you have a large truck and live close to my husband and I are in need of some man-power to move our furniture out o Apartments & into our new, ground-level at Apartments! Should only take 1 hour to load, drive and unload! Super easy. We would be thrilled to have your help ANY of the following dates, this April: Tuesday, April 19th Wednesday, April 20th Thursday, April 21st ■ Friday, April 22nd ■ Saturday, April 23rd ■ Sunday, April 24th ■Monday, April 25th ■Tuesday, April 26th Wednesday, Apri
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  • 03
    God has called our family of three to Ecuador as missionaries, starting late July of this year! Many smaller churches in the area are unfortunately not able to sponsor the visa, passport, and moving process... which also includes needing to build our own home, shortly after we arrive! Not only this, but we will also be teaching the locals subsistence farming, which will include purchasing farm and medical equipment, livestock and construction costs. But we are not discouraged. We need flanancial
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  • 04
    WE NEED YOUR FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE! - We live in Due being forced to take 2 weeks off work for C, my husband's work at Ws now refusing to pay him for 2 weeks of work!! And W also fired him, today. And our extended family lives on the East coast, so we're living by ourselves, out in which is why I'm asking for financial help. We have an 18 month old, Maverick, barely have any food left in the house, and our gas tank is just above empty,and also are now overdrawn on our bank account by $100. Here's
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  • 05
    So we are missing $1200 in our bank account, and he got fired, and now he can't make it to his new job!! Things could not be worse. I'm a stay at home mom, and I've sold just about everything I have to make money to keep us afloat. I had nearly $300 in gift cards that I earned, that I've been saving to buy my son toys and books, but I've had to use this, also. I don't have any other way to make income. Driving for Doordash is also my 2nd job, but we can't afford gas money. If you're able to assi
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  • 06
    Over the past few years she has been super demanding on our local facebook page. these are some of the gems. (two of these were posted a few years ago, but i cringe every time i see it so yall can cringe with me.)
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    Actual-Deer1928 4 days ago She's going to teach subsistence farming? Does she know subsistence farming? €4.1k€ Reply Share
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  • 08
    nomparte 4 days ago "Ecuador...teaching the locals subsistence farming..." . What? the stuff they've been doing for the last couple of thousand years? €2.8k € Reply Share
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  • 09
    MsKlinefelter. 4 days ago I'm so happy to see that she "earned" so much money in gift cards. Begging is hard y'all. /s €1.0k€ Reply Share
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  • 10
    dor/ChoosingBeggars Posted by u/Lemonirefresh Got taken down an hour after posting, but not before the guy gets reamed in the comments
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    4:28 bird prizes! 15.0 Let me know if this isn't allowed. WANTED: LIVE-IN (Trade for Free Rent) Female CARE ASSISTANT We need a caring, responsible, fun loving, compassionate female to be a live-in homecare assistant for our 89 year old mother in law in exchange for Free Rent. ... Our mother has COPD on 24 hour oxygen. We need someone to help her get around when she needs help, prepare some home cooked meals, do her laundry. YOU MUST BE HOME AT NIGHT IN CASE OF EMERGENCY. There is family close b
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  • 12
    Guy offers no compensation other than rent and insists that's enough. 593 Comments Share
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  • 13
    Be_nice_to_animals "We figured out the state will pay us to take care of mom, and we're trying to get someone to do it for free so we can keep the pay" € 760 € ) Reply Share
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  • 14
    stocks-mostly-lower. I wouldn't be interested in living in the basement with a mini fridge and wet bar for no pay and basically 24-7 care for elderly lady with toileting problems. Maybe I'd do it for $25 an hour, or if I was hiding out from the law. Maybe.... €706 € Reply Share
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    For a free item 2:14 PM Hi, is this still available? 3:28 PM Is it for delivery? 3:34 PM 3:35 PM Can you make a exception for delivery For free is free 3:10 PM Yes, it's still available. 3:32 PM No pickup only 3:34 PM For $40 3:35 PM No delivery is no delivery. 3:36 PM Especially for free lol Seen
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  • 16
    I'm just trying to give this desk away for free. I'm learning it would be easier to just put it at the curb. The entitlement with these people is off the charts.
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  • 17
    EstablishmentNo5994 3 days ago The nerve of some people. Free for pickup. As if they think you should waste your time and gas bringing it to them €444€ Reply Share
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  • 18
    plants4uandme2 . 3 days ago Ugh, reminds of when I was selling a few plants FB. This guy reached out and said he was interested in purchasing the plant I had for sale but also did I have another plant he was looking for. I said I did. My listing stated clearly it was porch pick up only. He said great, but then proceeded to beg me into delivering both plants 89 MILES!! The kicker though? He was only going to offer $6 for gas. 234 € Reply Share
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  • 19
    r/ChoosingBeggars u/thesearchingbear Posted by 4 days ago Please be my personal assistant with no guaranteed pay
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  • 20
    facebook + Q X 34 m Due to burnout and my non working brain looking for a personal assistant between 25 February and 31 March to help with organisation of festival, scheduling my appointments and helping with communication. Max. 15 hours a week= around 60 hours in total. Someone that speaks Dutch, in a relatively stable position (you are not homeless or on the verge of a mental breakdown) has enough grounding, knowledge of culture and DIY initiatives, who will listen carefully to my requests ins
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  • 21
    DotAccomplished 5484 4 days ago "who will listen carefully to my requests instead of proposing new ideas non-stop". This statement is the most concerning of all. This person isn't burnt out, rather their opinion of themselves is so high that they believe that their role should be limited to ideas, garnering credit and sloughing off anything and everything that requires time and effort. 953 € Reply Share
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  • 22
    11:50 MO ← Just seen 11:47 AM Twice as likely to sell 11:47 AM And you said you're moving right? So there's nowhere to put it 11:47 AM Message What kind of speakers are they? I know it says three-way speakers, but are they for mixing and mastering? WA 11:49 AM Or are they studio monitors? Message... ||| Well if your moving and have nowhere to place the. Why not just sell it to me for free?*** all 63% 꾸 $75 Sell 2x faster ... 11:47 AM Correct They are floor speakers, they are very large. 11:48 AM
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    11:51 O K J Just seen Twice as likely to sell 11:49 AM 11:50 AM Message Well if your moving and have nowhere to place the. Why not just sell it to me for free?☺☺☺ 11:51 AM Oh, sorry about that... ||| Message... 4 Well, I guess I won't be buying them then. But I hope you find a nice place! 62% 11:48 AM They are floor speakers, they are very large. Sell 2x faster $75 ... I'm moving because I'm being evicted. I need the money. 11:50 AM I'm sorry, do you just message people you don't intend to buy f
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  • 24
    dookle147 days ago "Well I guess I won't be buying them then" Uhhh, you weren't buying them in the first place. You were trying to see if you could get them for free. I'm sure you'd be asking for delivery and installation too... € 791 € Reply Share
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  • 25
    BackItUpWithLinks 7 days ago I listed a box of plastic bags for free. The first message I got was from a stranger saying "I use that type of bag but that's too many." I replied "did you just message me to tell me you don't want them?" She called me an €340 € Reply Share
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