omegapirate2k
May 15, 2007, 11:15 PM
So, anywho, I've been looking for a part time job lately and I came up with a rather promising lead, Vector marketing.
http://www.vectormarketing.com/
I look at the ad on one of the employment sites I've been browsing lately, and I like what I see, nearly $15 an hour, flexible schedule, pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, they said it was in customer service, so I assume I answer customer questions over the phone, no biggie.
So, I call up the office, and they say I can come in for an interview at 5:00PM today.
I come in (a little bit late, and I had to park in a random parking lot because I was in a rush), and walk up the stairs to a somewhat bare office, I go upstairs and I go in for a preliminary interview, we talk for a while and he says he likes what he sees and invites me to stay for a secondary group interview.
So a few minutes pass and we do the group interview, and he explains a bit about training, and what the reps do. Now HERE things got a little bit fishy, instead of doing phone work, what I would be doing was going to peoples homes, but he said that it wasn't door to door, it was simply going in to demonstrate the product to potential customers who've arranged an appointment, ok, I could live with that.
Then he does a live demonstration of the product (basically high quality kitchen knives), and he calls me to assist him in doing it. I help and then we continue on with the pay. Apparently pay isn't for hours, it's for every appointment you do (which take approximately an hour, to be fair, but this doesn't account for DRIVING back and forth, nor are you paid for the gas you use) or you can get paid a percentage of how much of the product you sell (up to 30% of $12000 worth, but its weekly, so GOOD luck getting that much) depending which is higher.
So finally he calls us into his office one by one and tells us if we got the job or not, he calls me in first (big surprise), and tells me I got the job. At this point I was pretty happy and I left the office and continued on my way home, I saw a parking ticket on my car, but hell, its ok, I got the job right?
So I get home, and talk to my dad about it a bit, he pretty much tells me its most likely a scam, as most businesses like that are. This got me a bit curious, so I googled "Vector marketing scam", and look what I found, 985000 results.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=vector+marketing+scam&btnG=Search&meta=
Great, now I need to look for another part time job.
And I'm out $40 now, too.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: omegapirate2k on 2007-05-15 21:18 ]</font>
http://www.vectormarketing.com/
I look at the ad on one of the employment sites I've been browsing lately, and I like what I see, nearly $15 an hour, flexible schedule, pretty much exactly what I'm looking for, they said it was in customer service, so I assume I answer customer questions over the phone, no biggie.
So, I call up the office, and they say I can come in for an interview at 5:00PM today.
I come in (a little bit late, and I had to park in a random parking lot because I was in a rush), and walk up the stairs to a somewhat bare office, I go upstairs and I go in for a preliminary interview, we talk for a while and he says he likes what he sees and invites me to stay for a secondary group interview.
So a few minutes pass and we do the group interview, and he explains a bit about training, and what the reps do. Now HERE things got a little bit fishy, instead of doing phone work, what I would be doing was going to peoples homes, but he said that it wasn't door to door, it was simply going in to demonstrate the product to potential customers who've arranged an appointment, ok, I could live with that.
Then he does a live demonstration of the product (basically high quality kitchen knives), and he calls me to assist him in doing it. I help and then we continue on with the pay. Apparently pay isn't for hours, it's for every appointment you do (which take approximately an hour, to be fair, but this doesn't account for DRIVING back and forth, nor are you paid for the gas you use) or you can get paid a percentage of how much of the product you sell (up to 30% of $12000 worth, but its weekly, so GOOD luck getting that much) depending which is higher.
So finally he calls us into his office one by one and tells us if we got the job or not, he calls me in first (big surprise), and tells me I got the job. At this point I was pretty happy and I left the office and continued on my way home, I saw a parking ticket on my car, but hell, its ok, I got the job right?
So I get home, and talk to my dad about it a bit, he pretty much tells me its most likely a scam, as most businesses like that are. This got me a bit curious, so I googled "Vector marketing scam", and look what I found, 985000 results.
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=vector+marketing+scam&btnG=Search&meta=
Great, now I need to look for another part time job.
And I'm out $40 now, too.
<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: omegapirate2k on 2007-05-15 21:18 ]</font>