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kborin:

I went to an information session for this part time job I was hoping to get. About halfway through the session, I realized I was sitting through a pitch for a pyramid scheme.
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True story, my friend Scott (Scott from Hoffstra on CH) went to two ad/marketing interviews in NYC one day.  The first was a company that had all sorts of ESPN, NFL, and other sports shit on the wall.  The second interview was 3 hours later at another marketing firm.  His interview room was covered with Nickelodeon, Disney, and other family style ads.  He said that both went well.  Later that week, he got called and invited to a second interview from one company.  The next day, he got a call from the second one.  He scheduled both interviews on the same day.

Scott arrived at the first place and all of the sports ads were off of the walls, and it turned out that this was a “group” second interview.  The guy who interviewed them came out and said “OK guys, now I just want to show you guys what we do on a daily basis here so that you can get a feel for it.”  He then drove them to a Home Depot.  Inside, he told them that they were cold selling upgrades for cabinets and garages and that anyone who didn’t want to do this could leave now.  Scott left right then and took the train to the second placed he had an interview at.

When Scott came to the second place, he was meeting his interviewer downstairs, and sure enough, it was a group second interview as well.  The guy comes downstairs and says that they’re going to Home Depot.  Scott immediately leaves.

At least they didn’t go to the Home Depot and say, “Now we wait here until someone looks like they could use some cheap labor.”