So I was hired for Silver City Inc. The beginning of June 07'. They promised me $2,000 a month, even if I didn't sell anything. Originally they said that I did not have to sell anything; all I had to do was to set up appointments for a free carpet cleaning. Sounds easy enough, right?
Well I had to go through three days of unpaid training, and at the end of the training I was given a Kirby to use and try to sell over the weekend. I found this rather weird seeing as we were promised that we didn't have to sell anything.
Well I made it through the weekend and came back to work on Monday. I had planned to work three days a week. During our training we were told that we got to pick the days we wanted to work, and that we could stop working at anytime of the day. WRONG!!! They pressured me into signing a contract saying that I would work 6 days a week or I wouldn't get the $2,000. It was written into the contract as an attendance bonus. They asked me to just "Give this Job a month".
Within a month I was selling door to door, working 10 hours a day, and working 6-7 days a week. They flashed money at me, cars, expensive trips I could win. The thing is no matter how hard I worked I never seemed to get that.
One weekend we were in Carson City selling Kirby's when we were pulled over by the cops. Apparently the owner of the company, Tom West, didn't get the proper licenses for us to go door to door in that city. We were all ticketed and charged with operating a business without a license, and were given a court date and a fine of over $300 dollars.
The next day at work the owner said that not only would he not go to court with us and pay our fines, but he said that it was our fault for us getting the tickets.
We all ended up having to go to court; I had hired a really good lawyer. During court two of the former employees were sentenced to a year in prison, two of the former employees were sentenced to a 1 year suspended sentence. As for me the court let me go with a slap on the wrist but I was ordered to pay the fine.
That following day I went to the office and asked the owner to pay the fine for me. He stated that I owed the company over $500 dollars in what he called "Work Expenses" he said that he would subtract the amount of the fine from what I owed the company and that if I wanted I could either work off the remaining money that I owed him or I could just write him a check.
I had my lawyer come and have a nice little talk with him and whatever I supposedly owed the company was in their words "Forgiven".
When tax time came around this year I never received a 10-99 reporting my earnings, when I called into the office, they denied me ever working for them and claimed they had no clue who I was. So I had to go down to the office where I was told that the reason I didn't get a tax form was because I still owed the company money.
Needless to say stay far away from these slime balls. They claim to be good Christian people who want to give you an opportunity. Truly they are lying, cheating scum who want to try and take everything you have just so they can "earn" another buck.
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