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Originally Posted by KSigkid
A kind of funny story on those companies: I had a college friend who went for an interview with a company in the Boston area. It advertised itself as a marketing and communications firm, and talked about having big corporate clients, including some pro sports teams in the area. He went for the 1st interview and was told he did well, and he was asked back for a 2nd interview. They told him to reserve the whole day, which seemed a bit strange.
When he got to the company, he was told he was going on a job shadowing run with one of the associates. It turned out they were selling copy paper door to door, in some not-so-nice sections of a neighboring city. About halfway through the day he said that he wasn't interested in the job anymore; the guy he was with told him that he couldn't drive him back to the office, and essentially left him in the middle of the city to catch a cab back to Boston. The friend ended up calling me, I looked up a phone number for a cab company for him, and he ended up with a big cab bill.
He didn't find it so funny at the time, but now it's become a pretty funny story, a few years later.
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When I was fresh out of school I went on a similar interview. I showed up at the office, and there were probably 10 of us there, all young. They had us fill out an application, and then told us what we'd be doing for the day - each of us was being paired up with an employee to go out an spend the day shadowing him/her. Well, one by one they called us to come up to the desk and one by one people were walking out the door with these total strangers. But not me! I knew this was waaaaaay shady and I was not going to get in a car with a guy I didn't know. I walked up to the desk, gave them back my blank application, and left. When I got home and told my family what had gone on, they were proud of me for leaving. Then I called the state dept. of labor and told them about a shady business I had just interviewed at and that I thought they were using interviews as a front for unpaid labor.