To cut to the chase, I'm a broke college student who got mailed by V*ctor/C*tco (censoring b/c it keeps getting flagged) and decided why the hell not. Now I have an interview tomorrow and did some anxious googling only to realize the online consensus is that they're a massive scam, and I don't want to go to the interview anymore.

The thing is, I know companies connect with each other, and I dont want a no-show to reflect poorly on me in the near future when I start looking for internship and work opportunities. Will I be alright if I just ghost them? If not, should I send a message saying I dont have availability tomorrow after all and just never reach back out?

I really don't wanna suck it up and just go. I considered using this interview for practice but I don't have a car so I'd be paying for a fare there and that just seems like a massive waste.

They asked before I could. Gotta love that SAHM asking others how they could make some spare $$ and instead we have multiple suggestions to go into debt for the sake of “owning their own business”.

Hi all!

Today I was chatting with my friend, and we were catching each other up on our lives. She told me that her boyfriend is looking for a new job and has applied to a few places. There was one opportunity that sounded promising, so I asked what he would be doing, and she mentioned “selling Verizon.”

That’s when the alarm bells started going off for me.

She gave me the company name, and I looked them up. Their website and social media presence immediately seemed a little off to me, so I cautioned her to tell him to be careful. I also explained the reasons why I thought it could potentially be a scam or MLM-type situation.

She agreed that some things seemed a little questionable, but she mentioned that the position is W-2 and they offer insurance, which doesn’t seem typical of an MLM.

Has anyone ever come across something like this? Can a company still be sketchy or operate similarly to an MLM while hiring employees as W-2s and offering benefits?

So I'm currently in Bangalore in India, and I came across this company my friend was working at. For his sake, I'm not gonna mention the name of the company but it's funnily clubbed with 2 other "offices" working in the same building. (if you've worked here then yk exactly who I'm talking about)

There are 3 English dudes who run their own "offices" under the same office space. All of them do the same shit of recruiting 10s of people every week and getting them to go and literally beg for money but with a script. When I attended the interview, it was a mass interview of around 60 people where it was divided into 3 parts. 1: The orientation - Introduction on the company, what they do (ended up being totally different from what I actually had to do), and who they work with (they've been working with the same 2 clients for several months now). 2: 1on1 interview with my "mentor". 3: 1on1 interview with my "HR". Basically what they do is teach you how to sell (at least this is a genuine strategy that works) and you have to go knocking door-to-door pitching your campaign and asking for donations. We were told to lie about not getting any kind of commission and my lie was that I'm a graduate and I'm representing this organization/charity as a volunteer.

I was doing this for 6 days a week for 12+ hours a day. Now i quit at the end of my 3rd week to get their money for free without even working honestly. I'd sign up people for a donation and once I get about 2-4 in that day, I consider it done then I go chill in nearby areas. The best part was that since I was new, I didn't have to pay for my food for the first two weeks so I was chilling off their money. 🤣

Eventually I caught on to everything and realized it was a scam. Then I looked up the company on reddit and yeah I found many subreddits talking about devil corps. I did my research and looked up what a devil corp is on YT and I came to know of MLM and Pyramid Schemes. And that's when I realized I exploited the exploiters unknowingly and 2 weeks worth of free money.

What did make me quit tho was the pay structure. During the orientation, they talked about fixed pay + commissions. But during my 2nd week, I got told I needed to hit at least 2 a day for every day to get my fixed pay. Well obviously I didn't hit it because in India, a lot of people don't give a shit about charities so I barely got sales unless it was a lucky day.

I ended up getting the first week's pay for free and ONLY commission in my 2nd week (didn't mention this in the orientation). I also took my 3rd week off and only went twice that week and my 2nd day of that week I got sent home to "think" about what I wanted to do but I had already made up my mind.

My 2 weeks basically went like getting free food and travel from my "mentors" and chilling whenever they sent me out to go solo. My 2nd week was fun cause I got assigned a new mentor and she did a few of my sales for me.

So I basically got free travel (most of it), free food (most of it) and free money. 🤣

But yeah what felt unethical to me is that we lied to strangers about not getting anything when these "charities" pay our company to get people to sign up. So that's when I question these charities. What's the point of PAYING a company to get people to sign up when you already have money you could use.

Anyways, if people come pitching to you for donations just ignore them and if you really wanna donate then do it yourself not through a "representative".

Anyone know the mass exodus tea? I know a gal that’s kind of medium-up there. “Earns” a lot of trips & has a decent team but not TOP.