I had been working at target and needed a change, so I looked through the Denver post classifieds and saw this:
Receptionist
Fun and fast paced office.
No experience necessary.
Start Now! (303)-940-3580
I called the number and a girl named Ashley had answered and there was music playing so loud all I could understand was over 18 and come for an interview in 45 minutes. I had to call back 3 times to get clear directions.
When I arrived, there were 3 boys and another girl sitting in chairs, music playing pictures of parties all over the walls and a young girl telling cheesy jokes.
I gave her my name and she gave me questionnaire to fill out and told me that Iris would be with me shortly. I went into the "group interview" with a guy and another woman. It was very short, but the questions entailed of what my goals were, how much money I wanted to make and why I wanted a new job.
Iris asked us 3 all the same questions and gave us each a call back time to see if we made it to the second interview.
I called later that night and was told what time to be there for the 2nd interview.
When I arrived the next day there was at least 20 people crowded in a room and in walked "boss" ir Chris Westphal. HE had giant holes in his ears that you could place n oreo into. This seemed a little odd.
He went on for 4 hours about how this was a great "opportunity" and we could make $52,000 a year. Great huh?! Then he had us write down a list of cities from the board and told us they were opening up branches in this area and if I got the opportunity I could open up my office in one of those areas of my choice. The training would be 60-90 days and it would be "bootcamp with a smile" He went on an on some more and gave us another time to call back tonight and even hired two people on the spot. He said to save all questions for later. I called and I was told to bring a 3 ring binder, paper and a pen.
The next day was interesting. I went in and again loud music was playing and people I saw from the interview talking amongst themselves.
When Boss came in I was told that they were the #1 distributer in fragrance sales and that they were featured in magazines. This made me a little uneasy. But I sat there and listened to all the stuff about paid vacations, and how we were going to earn all this money. Chris told us he has a $250,000 penthouse in downtown Denver and just got a flat screen TV and new car. He made it sound so good, but I was still nervous. So against my better judgement I went back the following day.
The next day some people from the training a couple weeks before had come in and they made us play a game that we had to go to the front of everyone, explain our old job, down it, and answer a list of meaningless crap. This was to get us comfortable with our "leaders". We learned horrible songs that downed people and we told we were FNPs. Famously New People, or F*ing new People. We were also told if we quit we were WPS. Weak Piece of SH*.
We were told about the training process and that we were to forget everything we thought we knew about sales and go by what they tell you. The FFAAR Friends Family Acquaintances and Relatives where they get most of their sales. The Power Car / Power Pair Up. Most importantly that we couldn't expect to get rich in training. But any questions were to be answered Monday.
Well Monday we were all to write down a list of people we knew and we were going to have a contest to where we could make $950 dollars. It was to go to our friends and family and sell these perfumes. They were rendition but we had to tell them they were the real thing.
I tried it. I sold two bottles to an old co-worker and she said it was out of sympathy because she used to work there. She also said she would let me find out on my own how the company was because she didn't "want to kill my dream".
The next day I went back and felt weird from the previous night experience but sat there and wondered why people were given 5 and 10 dollars, including myself. What happen to the money we were promised?
Well apparently we didn't do what they expected but we could make up for it. We were then told to wear comfortable shoes the next day. This is when I knew we were walking the streets trying to sell this stuff.
Well when I came in I prepared myself for the worst, but didn't expect this: We were told how to sell the perfume telling people that it is the name brand and what a great deal they were getting. If a business says no solicitation we were to go in anyway and tell them "I'm not from Sicily" or some other cheesy line to try to get a sale. Iris even told us that one of the girl a couple weeks before us got arrested, but not to worry!!! There were some people who had made it through training to help us learn how to read the products. They asked what 4 we wanted and sent us out with a box another person and a third to drive if you didn't have a car. They gave us a time to be back also.
We went to Aurora and walked and walked and walked with no food, money or luck selling this stuff. We were asked to leave many places and almost had the cops called in one.
When we finally headed back, the girl that drove had told or leader that she was almost out of gas and we had no money. So our leader got on the phone and "dropped a bottle". So we had to try and make it to her other job to get the money.
To my surprise we wound up at a strip club! After we got the money I was just wanted to go home.
When we arrived at the office
Sarah
Arvada, Colorado
U.S.A.
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