DeRome marketing is the Columbus branch of the exploit-marketing company, Quantum. After an initial interview, they take you into "the field" for a training day, where you work for six unpaid hours as they train you to sell "child safety" products where "some proceeds" go to a designated charity.
"The field" refers to a storefront at Wal-Mart, Dick's Sporting Goods, Panera Bread, and many other companies. It is here that you holler at random shoppers and passers-by to purchase "child safety" products or "help missing children." They don't tell these poor customers that only 5-20% of the proceeds actually go to charity. DeRome is a for-profit company that donates to the non-profit. Some of these products are totally pointless: $20 first aid kits, $15 safety calendars, $5 home fingerprinting kits, and more.
They took me to "the field" in one of their cars, so I couldn't leave, even if I wanted to.
They say it's not a pyramid scheme, because you don't make money off of the people below you. However, the only way to advance into the higher pay brackets is to get people below you, and then people below the people below you, etc.
A total waste of time.
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