TMG contacted me after I posted to monster.com. I was rushed through a "hiring process" like many others on this website. I spent eight hours in training via a Webinar today and began filling out my employment packet immediately following the conference conclusion. I had a lot of unanswered questions and several doubts (immediately suppressed by those big commission opportunities), but here is where the flags really started to fly...
The employment contract I read earlier was the biggest of many red flags, as it appears to be highly illegal and undoubtedly immoral. The contract outright asks the employee in training to sign a statement preventing any present or future legal action against the employer and several other covenants that are highly questionable and, to be quite honest now that I have shredded the W4, laughable. Only a company operating its business as repulsively as TMG would have to "COVER THEIR ASSets" by preventing someone from legal action in a contractual bind between their company and that individual, its own employee. Also, right out of the actual contract (SECTION 6.07 if you have the agreement still), TMG states;
"If any term, provision, covenant or condition of this agreement is held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, illegal, void or unenforceable in any jurisdiction, then such provision, covenant or condition shall, as to such jurisdiction, be modified or restricted to the extent necessary to make such provision valid..."
I am not a lawyer but here's how I have come to understand the excerpt: The very ludicrous contract, apparently legal under The United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas (TMG is based in Dallas/Fort Worth), enables TMG to put absolute restraint on its employees' legal rights, more so, I'm assuming, than most districts in this great nation. That would make the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas TMG's best friend and provide a perfect setting for a shafty (i may have made that word up) company to do shafty business at its leisure, covering its ass by adding a covenant that basically says, "If any of the bull - we wrote above is illegal in the locations we have hired employee's of our company, they will be required to attend court on our home turf (SECTION 6.06) OR, your court's judge can take out certain clips and phrases to make this binding contract as strict as your local law allows.
I am getting awfully tired after a Webinar program that almost had me signing the contract anyway, merely so I could say I hadn't actually skipped a legitimate interview this afternoon because, "I got a sweet new gig with some credit card dudes that seemed really cool over the phone." You'll have to excuse my unedited, unadulterated writing, but I find it necessary if it can convince, at the very least, one person
Not to sign that w-4!!!
TMG or PCC or SUMMIT or whatever else they call themselves is a well thought out, well executed SCAM. But don't feel bad if you sat through that damn webinar like I did; I noticed a past recruiter for the company wrote about some 18,200 new-hires at the MSC (Merchant Sales Consultant) level each year (with an annual retention of less than 500 of those employees). So you and I are getting out early. Good luck with your job search, keep your faith in this wonderful nation and push on.
Addition: Review many of the other complaints on this site. There is so much more than I had looked into earlier. Complaints from clients of CCP and its subsidiaries, as well as new-hires. Here's my opinionated suggestion: Do not submit for employment, these guys are %s.
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