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Originally posted by ZTAngel
Another warning is for people in the Marketing/Advertising field. If a job that's posted on Monster or CareerBuilders looks shady or too good to be true, it probably is. My favorite is the jobs that are in bold and all capital letters that say "Entry-Level Marketing. No Experience Necessary."
A friend of mine applied and got invited for an interview. The told her to wear comfortable shoes since she'd be spending the whole day with the company watching what they do on a daily basis. Comfortable shoes to an interview? That still didn't give her a clue that something was wrong.
The interviewer tells her that he's going to be meeting clients in DeLand (1 hour out of Orlando) and tells her to come along.
Turns out that the company specializes in selling coupon books door-to-door. The "clients" this guy had to meet with were whoever happened to be home that day. My poor friend went door-to-door with guy in the pouring rain in her new business suit that she had bought for the interview.
She called me crying at the end of the day. I think the company was Wentworth or Marketing Dynamics or something like that.
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Not only did I apply to and interview with a company like that, I worked there for three weeks! Well, it wasn't three full weeks..I was at my old job part-time for two of the three weeks. When I was hired I was told as a management trainee, I'd be going out in the field for a couple weeks just so I could "see what the salespeople do so I could relate to them." Going out in the field=door to door sales of coupon books. Oh boy, did it ever suck. I had to be there at 9:30 or so for meetings, then I'd go out and was expected to be out til about 7 or so, then came back for more meetings. It was VERY cultlike. Everyone was talking about how they were going to run their own offices and stuff and if you were really good, you got to go on a "business trip" to somewhere in the middle of nowhere, staying five or six to a hotel room, doing door to door sales there for a couple weeks. I never went on one.
During the third week I talked to one of the guys and found out that not only was he still doing door-to-door sales, he had been doing it for two years! I quit the next day...went in to turn in something (I forgot what) and left, never to return. That's the only job I ever walked out on.