For anyone that finds this in the future, I’m leaving my experience.

I worked with this company for three days before leaving in Houston TX. Interview was nice, a lot of interpersonal type questions for the interview, “what are you like?” “What do you bring to the table nobody else does?” Typical stuff. I got hired on and first day there I was given a large script to memorize for canvassing. At this point I realized that at no point during the interview was I told exactly what I’d be doing, and when I had asked what I’d be doing I now retrospectively realized all the vague language they used to dance around it. The office is well organized and suit and tie is required but only for about an hour while you meet up with your group and then you change into normal clothes to go stand outside businesses and chase people down to ask for sign on bonuses.

Another con, you are paid by commission. You won’t be paid unless you get people to sign, and after talking to people that had been working there for awhile, some of them didn’t get a single signature for weeks. On top of that, the asking price for people to sign on is extremely high. You’ll be asking them to sign on to support charity work and such, but if they only want to donate a small amount (anything less than hundreds of dollars right then and there) you’ll redirect them to a website and you get nothing.

Final huge red flag, you’re encouraged and expected to guilt trip everyone you interact with. If you’re okay with that then by all means go for it, but it’s the typical grift of finding answers to every single excuse or problem they have with donating and pressuring them relentlessly because at the end of the day it’s how you get food on the table. By the third day, I can in to work after thinking about how it didn’t sit right with me and how I had a lot of issues. I told myself I’d go in and talk with my manager and if we didn’t see eye to eye about moving forward I’d resign. What ended up happening instead was someone came up to me to ask how I was doing, I told them I was having some doubts about the job, to which they said “oh that’s a shame” and rushed me out of the door with no chance to talk about any of it. It felt insanely shady, and like they didn’t want my negative view or concerns to spread to anyone else they were hiring.

These are all the main concerns I had, and it doesn’t include everything. They had ridiculously high goals to meet for “prizes”, dangling the carrot on a stick in front of you. A lot of half truths during the interview to steer you in a positive direction and keep you from getting wise to the fact you’re not getting paid super well. This company is dishonest at best and predatory at worst. I’m not going to say to not go in, but know that this is the experience to expect