These People

*smh*

I had an interview today, right? When I tell you it was a complete waste of my time, I mean the SOLE purpose of that interview today was to give me something to blog about.

I get a call last week from this guy who says he saw my resume on Careerbuilder. Cool. We talk and its a 100% commission-based outside sales position, which really aint my bag, but he positioned it so well that I felt it was worth a look. I figured, worst-case, I'd do it until I found something else.

So he sets up an interview for 1:00 today with this Alex somebody, who he refers to in his email as the President of the company. He gives me the address and phone number and boom - done.

I should have followed my instincts when I looked them up online and saw all these complaints and negative reports about their dealings, but I decided to go anyway.

So I go down there today, already annoyed that it was raining cats and dogs and I had to walk like six blocks from the port authority to get to this building, and when I walked up in this place.... it looked like one of those wack office setups in some B movie you'd rent on a slow, off-season Sunday. Have you ever seen Boiler Room? You know how there were desks and phones and computers, but when the feds came back, it was all gone? LOL Well this office looked like it could be easily erased from existence, just like that.

The carpet in the reception area hadnt been cleaned in... ever, the receptionist (in tight, ashy skinny jeans, a baby tee and hospital crocs) was roaming around for ten minutes, chopping it up with other employees, also dressed like cleaning people, before she ever said a word to me, and that was after I had already been there ten minutes before that, being ignored by everybody else who passed through.

She finally acknowledges me and I tell her I have a meeting with Alex. She tells me to have a seat, but I overhear her telling her homegirl to go get Mike because Alex aint there today. (*staring*) it takes another fifteen minutes for Mike to come grab me, who, incidentally, had also been through that area at least four times prior, cursing back and forth with one of the guys. Who curses like that in front of guests to your office? And why is everybody in here not only NOT dressed to be working in an office, but dressed like youre at home and not planning to go outside AT ALL that day?

Cable and Internet wires all running across the floor, exposed, like somebody's cousin Pete did the installation for a third the price. *smh*

Mike..... sigh..... Mike takes me thru this door and down a hall, thru this small, dirty kitchen, past two factory bathrooms, and brings me into the "boiler room" lol. There are like 3 or 4 offices along the wall and a conference room. None of these offices belong to him and he has no access to the conference room, but he wants me to believe that he is the Director of Sales. Not to mention (picture this) he's about 5'5 or 5'6, in a short-sleeved button up (turquoise/pastel plaid), baggy blue jeans and some white ups, with blonde spiky hair that is trimmed around the edges (a la Jersey Shore's Pauly D) and chunky watch that you couldnt even tell came from Abdul n'em unless you looked real close.

But youre the Director of Sales? *sigh*

He called himself breaking down how the pay works (a roundabout way of not knowing what the fuck he was talking about) and had the nerve to go "September... October... November... no....September... November..... no.... which comes first, October or November? I forget...." I didnt say anything. CLEARLY he wasnt looking for an answer. He asked me again "which one comes first?" COMPLETELY SERIOUS in wanting an answer. You have got to be kidding me, dude.... I almost lost it right then.

So here are the real problems:

-this is one of those places that hire EVERYBODY, figuring some are bound to stay
-if you gonna admit to high employee turnover, at least KNOW youre saying something bad
-the info he gave me did not line up with what the guy on the phone said
-3 to 5 guaranteed appts a day became you might be sitting home that day
-the $/sale became a third that amount, AND not guaranteed, as the bulk of my pay was on residuals, which I was supposed to believe would total $6-10k/month by end of the year.
-I have heard of pay being commensurate with experience but how doesnt everyone at least get paid the same WAY? His explanations were soooo wack.

I asked about Alex and got three different reasons from three different people as to why he wasnt there. I ask Mike who Alex is. Mike tells me Alex is "like the HR person". Titles can be tricky, but Im pretty sure there is a huge difference between "President of the company" and "like.... the HR person." But then he was the Director of Sales, so.....

This man never asked me for my resume, never asked about my background or ANYTHING at all, for that matter. I bet anybody $100 right now that he cant tell you my name. Know why? He never asked.

I shoulda walked out when I felt compelled to, before he ever came out there to get me. I was so insulted and annoyed that he was sitting there trying to bamboozle me, like he does those nineteen year olds floating all thru there, it took everything in me not to read him, but I did call bullshit. I told him there had obviously been some mistake, ya see, I am a seasoned professional. Yall are clearly looking for people newly beginning their career journey.

I came home and emailed the guy who reached out to me initially and told him he was lucky I didnt report them because I have serious doubts about the legitimacy of their business, but I had other shit to worry about, so my advice would be no longer allow their reach to extend to seasoned professionals because a lot of "us" take professional offenses very seriously and somebody was gonna have their asses brought before somebody's committee if they aint get their shit together.

At least I know things have not gotten so bad that I would be willing to compromise my professional integrity for a check.

I wanted to take video of the place so yall could see this shit but I couldnt do it without being obvious and I remember people being killed in that movie.... it just wasnt that serious LOL