Vector isnt a scam. Lol you were a receptionist, for a few weeks. Dont act like you know shit. Im not trying to change your mind, your opinion is irrelevant. Im just going to say, dont talk shit, unless you worked as a REP, for at least 6 months.
Good holy lord, how deep in my blog did you have to go to dredge up that ancient history? It’s been ages since I mentioned Vector.
BUT, I’m glad you did, because it’s always the right time for a fresh reminder that VECTOR IS AN EXTREMELY SHADY, PIECE OF SHIT COMPANY THAT TAKES IRRESPONSIBLE ADVANTAGE OF TEENAGERS and I am always happy to step back onto that soapbox.
LISTEN UP, EVERYBODY. A lot of you are teenagers, and some of you who are teenagers in America are going to be contacted by Vector Marketing (or workforstudents, or Cutco, they’re all the same thing). They’ll ask you to apply. Don’t do it. At best you’re wasting an afternoon, at worst you’ll be wasting much more of your time, money, and gas.
Yes, it is possible to make money with Vector. Is it likely? No. Is it a pyramid scheme? Absolutely.
Vector takes everyone that walks in the door. They promise them large amounts of money for little work, lie to get them in for interviews, exploit their friends and neighbors, waste their time, and take advantage of them in ways their ‘hires’ would avoid if they knew any better. This is why Vector employs almost exclusively teenagers.
Vector Marketing, first of all, requires all hires to provide a list of friends who ‘might also be interested’ in the sham of a job. Then that list is handed off to a telemarketer (which is what I was, despite being hired explicitly as a ‘receptionist’ who would answer their phone, do paperwork for new employees, actual receptionist things) whose entire job consisted of coldcalling from the minute they arrive until the minute they leave. They had to (I had to) read from a script that was blatantly just lies about the job. There were three of us back to back in a tiny room, marking on a white board every time a sucker fell for it, with a manager looming in the door several times a day to insist we get our ‘numbers’ up. Again, I was hired as a receptionist.
Vector then sets these people up in ‘group interviews’ which aren’t interviews at all but rather a presentation and a pitch, trying to convince as many of those people as possible to join up with them by insisting ‘the product sells itself’ and all kinds of pipe dreams about how much money you’ll make with them. Then, as I understand it, there are smaller one-on-one interviews that are barely a formality.
Now, Vector doesn’t see you as an ‘employee’, technically. Which means they don’t have to pay you for the mandatory training you’ll have to take, they don’t take money out of your paycheck (if you ever see a paycheck) for taxes or social security, they can jerk you around however they want.
You’re encouraged to sell to family and friends (because who the hell else is going to buy extraordinarily overpriced knives from a stranger who doesn’t know what the hell they’re doing) and in pressuring wealthy family members you MAY get a sale, which means you MAY get paid.
But very, very few people actually make decent money, much less the kind of money Vector claims you will. Most teenagers walk out of there with barely enough money to cover the hours they had to sit through of training and listening to pitches, and the gas to get there.
What’s worse, the ever-peppy Cutco ‘success stories’ will insist through the entire carnival of scams that ‘if you’re not a people person it’s not the job for you, but if you have basic education you can do this’, and other such nonsense. They will tell you again and again that if it doesn’t do miraculous wonders for you, that it’s your fault. You didn’t have what it takes, you’re not the right kind of person for this. You failed, not the company, not their business model. They are telling the inexperienced, untrained, never-had-a-job-before struggling kids that they’re scamming that they don’t have what it takes to make it in sales on a personal and mental level and that makes me truly fucking sick to my stomach.
I was only a receptionist telemarketer there for so short a time because I don’t want to be a part of something that shady. I still don’t.
Vector Marketing/Cutco/workforstudents is a pyramid scheme. Their ‘sales’ focus entirely on hiring new people and ‘building sales staff’, because constant turnaround of suckers through the door is their lifeblood. This is a company that’s been around for years and years, doing the same thing, and they’re good at it. And there’s a group of people totally loyal to them who will insist again and again that what they do is normal and acceptable. Don’t listen.
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/employment/vector-marketing.html
http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-life/1183566-vector-marketing-is-it-legit.html
http://www.sequenceinc.com/fraudfiles/2010/08/penn-teller-on-multi-level-marketing-and-pyramid-schemes/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vector_Marketing
http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news03/save.html
http://anti-vector.livejournal.com/