I started at this company with an open mind and excitment. After thirteen full days, I started to figure out everything and why there was such a high turnover rate (ex: 45-50 people a WEEK). At G.G.C./Meriam Marketing in denver, they try there best to make sure they get people to make the parent company "Cydcor" expand and grow. You might have heard of the job offerings there being described as a "management training program". Cydcor is a company that started out with two guys doing door to door business marketing, and decided to get fortune 500 companies to work with them (ie: AT&T, BFI, First Horizon etc.) Here's what I'd like to tell you about them;
You are required to be there around 8:00am to around 9:30am in the office (without pay) and from around 6:30pm to about 7:30pm in the office again (without pay) regardless of where you live and where you are supposed to go work (ex: your "territory").
When you first start out you are told that its an entry level door to door marketing business. And to start I was told I'd be making between $400.00-500.00 a week. Soon after my first week, I made only $234.00. After I completed 63 hours in my first week, I continued on to nothing but hope in making more money. I thought it was fishy when I noticed a "positive" atmosphere that almost seemed fake.
They told me that within a year and a half to two years I'd own my own business and have an income of more than $100,000 a year. Sounds fabulous right? Whatever!!! I am currently 19 years old and there's no way that I could keep going to school full time (which they promised me I'd be able to do) and keep this job. Let me start off by showing the process they told me I'd have to go through to get my own office;
It all starts out being a distributor doing nothing but door to door business or residential sales. They call it "consulting".
Then they pressure you to move up to what they call leadership after only two weeks that you have been learning about marketing (even if you know NOTHING about it). You are supposed to make twice the commision, but still somehow manage to interview people for the first half of your day and train the rest of the day. Which doesn't make sense because you have to split half your money with the people you train. Well, you are training people almost 4 of 5 days of the week.
See the catch yet? Another plus that they add in is, you get to travel! Well the good ol' San Fransisco trip is supposedly paid for including ALL expenses. Well then they tell you after the trip that it will cost you $200.00. Then they tell you that it's ONLY $50.00 out of each check then it changes to ONLY $25.00 out of each check. One lie after another. I just got my third paycheck and there was $200.00 completely in full taken out of my paycheck! I never signed anything either... But anyway on to the "Management"
So now after almost six to eight months of being out in the blazing hot sun or freezing winter, you're expected wages should be around $1,000.00 salary a wk., twice the comission, and $100.00 for each hour you're in the office. YA RIGHT!!! (and you're only supposed to be an assistant manager for 3-4 months...)
AND NOW YOUR OWN BUSINESS! Being a manager you are supposed to get 40-60 interviews a DAY and basically sit on your rear all day but still making 80-100k a yr.
So that's the "gist" of there whole pyramid scam. They only hire young attractive people to work for them. Probably because the age group that they focus on have no clue about what they're up to. Please look up G.G.C./Meriam Marketing on monster dot com and you'll even see how much they change their job description!
They tell you at first that there's also this "rolling" that comes out of your checks and then they told me that it's actually. To cover your rear end if you have any "pending" applications. I've never seen any of that money come back into the following pay check!
I might have forgotten some things, so please read the other articles that are on this site. It's all true. Going to the department of labor and having to claim back money is not something I was looking forward to! But I've lost to much to give up.
Please be careful out there, because I gave up a good job and now I am in debt.
Anne
denver, Colorado
U.S.A.
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