So after searching through many different outlets of job finding, I finally landed an interview… roughly a half hour I applied for the job… from something I found through Kijiji. Hmmm, not suspicious at all! The interview was with a company called Vector Marketing. Right away I knew it sounded kind of shady but as indicated in my title… it’s been three weeks and I’ll take almost anything. The thing that made me most concerned is that I wasn’t even sure what position I was being interviewed for. I felt like that if I was to be hired I would be selling my soul for $16 an hour (and you know, the higher the advertised pay, the worse the job is).
I go to the interview. There’s a whole bunch of other people there. There’s a VERY quick interview with each of us individually, which pretty much consisted of a brief introduction of the interviewer and interviewee and to let us know that they sell kitchen cutlery, basically. After we’re all through with the quick interview we’re sent back out in the room to wait for, wait for it… a one hour presentation!
After the presentation we were all given another quick interview just to let us know that we got the job, because obviously we did. I went home thinking, “Well no one else is calling me back, what other choice do I have?” But by the time I left even the street I knew that I wouldn’t be able to do this. I decided to look further into the company. Hmmm. Strange. Enough to put me off. (By the way, I don’t actually believe it is a scam, but I don’t think it’s as simple as they made it out to be.)
If that’s not enough, I then got a call from someone from Rogers Communications for a job opportunity. Right away I jumped on that. It was only after the phone call that I realized, not only did I not remember applying for a job with Rogers, but they called me on my cell where I’ve been giving every potential employer the home number to my Mom’s (since it’s I am staying for the summer). Supposedly they contact current customers for some “customer service” job.
So I head all the way downtown for this information session where these two guys end up talking to a bunch of us outside (and it’s VERY hot) about how great this job is and you can make so much money, and all I could think of was, “and what exactly is the job?” At least at Vector they explained exactly what they wanted us to do and exactly how everything worked. The Rogers information session pretty much went like this:
“This is a great job! You’ll make so much money. This is the time to back out now if you’re not interested.”
Silence.
“You’ll make a lot of money. And you can travel. Leave now if you’re not interested.”
Silence.
“Everyone here believe they are comfortable working with customers?”
Chorus of yes’s.
“Because there will be angry customers, so back out now if you’re not interested.”
It wasn’t until they started giving out paper work and I started reading the contract where it said door-to-door, and something about energy, commodity or something confusing of the like. That’s it, I’m backing out now because I am not interested.
I have to find something though because the heat is stifling and I’m getting super bored. Also, I need to eat. I’m even considering applying to Opinion Search, where I worked as a “Market Research Interviewer” (aka I call people during dinner and ask them if they’d like to do a survey) many years ago and hated. But I have to keep telling myself, it’s only temporary, it’s only temporary, it’s ONLY temporary!!
This is going to be a long summer.
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