I just lost a week which may not sound a lot to you but it was a hard and gruelling week. I went in for an interview & the music was loud and the girl was energetic. She then told me she would call me between 5 & 6 to let me know if I was invited back for the second interview. I got a call back the next day (I get the feeling everyone got called back for an interview) and got told I had a second interview on the following thursday along with one of my friends.
So we went to the second interview & it sounded like a dream come true. We could quit our jobs that sucked (I was making decent money but they treated their employees like shit) and they seemed to care about their employees and are motivating as hell. They told us not everyone would be offered a position (the position was to open an office and manage a team of distributors). Well... Went in for our first day & that night we had to try to sell perfume to our friends and family. The whole week was nothing but selling to freinds and family or people on the street. I'm not a sales woman... I don't do sales and never have.
Natalie and Kevin made it seem like it was the easiest thing in the world to do—not even close. They seemed super cool & fun. They had a lot of cool and funny stories as well. They talked about all this money they made but I just didn't see it in what the drove, wore, etc. The funny thing was, only 8 people made it through (I just think the other people were smarter) but by the end of the week, there was only 4 of us (my friend & I included). Yesterday was power pair up day and we had to go out with another manager (they kept saying that once you were a manager, you didn't have to sell the perfume... Funny because all of them still were). We were out from 9am until midnight because we had to stay out until we sold 10 (I sold 1).
The group I was in got in to a car accident & the manager didn't want to take the one girl to the hospital that said her back hurt... That would cut into merching time. Eventually she went and her husband (who was on the other team) didn't find out any of this until about 4 hours after it happened. We left the girl at the hospital and went to merch some more... When the girl called back to pick her up, the manager said "well you'll have to wait. I have obligations to fulfill so I'll be there as soon as I can". I realized quickly that the only thing they care about is sales.
Well needless to say, we all showed up today to see if we got paid like they kept saying we would... We didn't. So we worked our asses off for basically nothing (I got paid $30 for the whole week) so we all quit today. It was the worst experience I have ever had—almost seemed like a cult. I advise anyone, don't try it... It's not worth the blood, sweat & tears!!!
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