I was briefly employed with The Industrial Tradesman Magazine. During my short time there, I was asked to make phone calls to construction companies. The script told me I had to provide a fake name when calling, and to say that my husband was a pipefitter/welder and was out of work looking for a job. I told the manager at the time that I would not lie over the phone. It is against the law. Plus I was seeing the amount of companies that were complaining because of the information being used to print in the magazine.
After refusing to say their script on the phone, I was fired. The excuse was "this is how things have been done for the 13 years we have been in business, and this is what works." The problem is, it may work, you get this information unlawfully, but you are breaking a federal law by not identifying yourself on the phone. Not to mention that you are giving a false story, name, and using this information for print in a magazine that you turn a profit on.
The owners claim to be church going folk, which is more or less just something they hide behind because neither of them practice good christianity. I have watched the owner personally come in, curse at an employee, threaten them, and also fire people without reason or rhyme. They have very bad business practices and do not know how to treat people.
As far as the magazine, BUYER BEWARE, 90 % of the jobs listed in there are not valid, or were obtained through false pretense. To prove it, anytime you call a company out of there that isn't hiring, ask them why they would run an ad for a job they are not hiring for. They will tell you that they did not run the ad and it was ran without consent.
These poor companies do not realize they were taken advantage of by telemarketers employed by the Industrial Tradesman, by lying to them over the phone!
I recommend anyone who has problems with this magazine report them immediately to the Federal Trade Commission! Most of us have already!
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