I am a recent college grad and was looking for a job for months after graduation so when I went on Monster.com and saw this job posting for Sports & Entertainment Marketing I took a chance. I sent my resume like I do for every other job I am interested in and they called me immediately. I went in and like the other reports had mentioned there were like 4 others in the waiting area all professionally dressed and the tv was blaring with ESPN and they had sports logos painted on the wall... It seemed legit.
My first interview was with a guy Brendon who seemed pretty cool and yet he rambled on about what they've done for the Yankees and didn't really interview me. Now before this I had probably gone on about 8 interviews in NYC for fashion so I knew what a real interview should be like and this wasn't right. It was about a 10 minute interview if you could call it that and he said they are interviewing 20-25 candidates and that at 4pm that day they'd make a decision and call me if they were interested. They indeed did call and told me that I was 1 of the 6 chosen to come back. They scheduled my second interview a few days later and told me to dress professionally yet comfortably and keep my day open from 9 till 5:30pm.
I showed up and they partnered me with a girl name Darcy who supposedly owned her own business and had worked there for a year and a half. We drove all the way to Wilmington, DE and basically we solicited. We were selling Victoria Jackson make-up (who I'm obsessed with fashion and never heard of) but we went business to business selling it for 32 bucks and it was supposedly 300 dollars worth of make-up. All day Darcy was asking me questions and when I seemed unsure and wasn't smiling she told me we could end the interview now it didn't bother her if I didn't want the job someone else would. We did this the entire day and got back to the office for "atmosphere" or what I like to call cult activity at 6:30 so already they told me the wrong times. They made me take a quiz and talk to Brendon who offered me a job, I was so desparate I figured if anything else it'd be experience; so I said yes. They told me I start the next day at 7:45 am after Brendon had already told me I can make my own hours and I am my own boss. There were no benefits, and my pay was based on commission.
To get to the point I did this "training" for a whole week and on friday decided to quit after a man threatened to call the cops on us and literally put his hands on us and made us leave his building. I was selling a lot of stuff but they weren't happy because I wasn't doing it the way they wanted, being pushy and rude. They kept telling me I was going to make 6 figures in a year and own my own company and I said to her that she wasn't technically owning her own company she was training people to solicit. She told me all day on friday that I had a bad attitude and that if someone didn't buy something from me it was because of my bad attitude. I told her that maybe some people just don't want to talk to us or buy make up and that isn't what they teach you at 3W. They said if people are rude to you it is because they hate their life and their job and that you should kill them with kindness or in my words "push their buttons". A lady at a Hallmark store asked us nicely to leave and Darcy said to her "oh ok mam I hope you have a better day you seem a little stressed"... The lady said "ACTUALLY my day is just find thank you but you can leave".
They also teach you to talk to "foot-traffic" meaning walk up to the guy in his truck in the back of the Home Depot Parking Lot and ask him to buy make up. This is only a way to get shot, raped or killed. She made me walk up to 3 drunk men with her in the back of a Liquor Store Parking lot and she literally opened the door to the truck and leaned in. If the front doors are not open we should go to the back and just walk in even if it says Employees Only. I find it rude to walk into a restaurant during PEEK lunch hours and try to sell them stuff, they are conducting their own business. I was told it was optional but I was then told I had to go to this "atmosphere" stuff in the mornings at 7:45 and then after we got back in the evening.
We stood in a circle and clapped and cheered and then we had 20 minutes of someone teaching us more about doing illegal activities and then we had to PRACTICE our pitch to eachother for the rest of the time till 9 ish where we could get our merchandise and go to our territory.
I am so happy I got out while I did and I really think someone should put a STOP to this. These people are brain-washed and a lot of the girls or guys in there were my age or even younger. They drop these big names but the truth is they work for these clients FOR FREE. Its free publicity for these big named teams and companies but truly they are NOT working one on one with any of these clients at all. The Phillies, Yankees, Pizza Hut, 76ers... And so many more don't let these trap you in like they did me. If you are seriously looking for a marketing or promotions job then do NOT go here this isn't marketing or promotions at all. They taught us that bilboard advertisements don't work as well as what they do. Someone needs to stop this seriously!!!
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