Believe it or not, this is the short version of my story: I graduated from college, got a good job in upstate NY for 2 years as a billing analyst got laid off, & needed a job immediately. I made the biggest mistake of my life&reading the reports on this website of Cydcor corruption, ignoring them, and moving from NY to Maryland because I believed the position was for real:
On a website, you'll find a "Management Position w/Madison Marketing Group for entry level college graduates"&once you find out its AT&T you're thinking WOW this is GREAT! Then they'll get you excited about an interview for you, which is very cheaply arrainged— (see the other reports on Cydcor w/in this website—that elaborate on this point) Basically they take you out w/their best salesman going to businesses door to door, making it seem like you're going to make tons of money.
The whole deal with Cydcor is that they are excellent manipulators&they market some things that most other "real jobs" do not, especially if you're in your 20's and recently college graduated/entry level member in the work force. Some major examples of why I picked up and moved 5 hours away from home:
The recruiters (whose leaders mainly consist of people in their 20's) give you job satisfaction immediately by:
once you start out, you get the vibe that you're working with people in your age group in a team environment; everyone is smiling because they're sooo happy; everyone has an unrealistic highly positive attitude; everyone there is making big big money. It's so easy to get caught up in this hype-a distortion of the reality of any type of work in this world in general. They basically promise you the "American Dream"&that if you work hard, you'll make lots of money and be happy.
This "entry level manager position" is a door to door sales position that does not guarentee anything - not even minimum wage. You work on commission ONLY. You won't get your 1st paycheck for 5 WEEKS! There's very bad organizational mappings of the territories you work—very poor directions to the areas you'd be working; and the business prospects 90% of the time were over-visited. The same businesses had been visited too frequently in a short period of time by the salespeople.
You get these false senses of job security, team-work mentality, and monetary gain that's consistent through these 2 hour meetings (brainwashing sessions) in the mornings to "boost morale."
In these morning meetings everyone stands in a big crowded circle and plays these cute games like "Jeopardy" to remember/coach each other on the sales pitch. Then you listen to testimonals of successful salesmen/women making bank rolls on selling these phone lines door to door. It's like one BIG CIRCLE JERK: Honestly, these people stroke you enough, so that you'll get all excited and make you believe that you can actually have a chance for this impossible success.
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