This is a email of a typical encounter with a Scentura distribution company. Most people are just looking for a regular job where they can exchange their time for money, and it takes them a little while to figure out that they aren't going to make any money at all. In the meantime, they're burning up what cash they do have in gas money, and making a few small sales that the company will gladly add to their bottom line. This encounter also includes an unwanted sexual advance made by one of the managers; another thread I have seen in many emails from women who have gotten involved with this system.
From: Meg [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: Help me, please
Date: Sat, 1 Jun 2002 10:45:29 -0400
I came home from school this summer and was looking for a job. I answered an
ad in the newspaper and wound up getting a job in the Charlotte, NC branch of
Scentura Creations: PN&B Marketing. I thought this was going to be a great
opportunity to earn $400 a week! I was totally wrong. I worked there a week,
8:30 AM to 6:00 or later. Fridays we were expected to work until we met our
goal and go into a meeting on Saturday for 3 hours. This is WAY over 50 hours
a week. I spent more money on gas to travel places to try to sell with 2
others than I made selling bottles. At $10 or less per bottle, you aren't
making anything. It sucks and is a ripoff. You work for bonuses and
commission, and if you don't sell anything in working your 50+ hours a week,
you don't get paid at all. I have school to pay for and bills. I didn't need
a job that I might not get paid with. Plus the fact that the assistant
manager tried to sleep with every girl in the store and harrassed them. He is
engaged to another girl, yet flirts with everybody else. That is just wrong.
Then, when I tried to quit, the guy goes off on me and tries to blame my
unsuccessful week on myself. I didn't feel comfortable running around and
talking to people in the worst parts of town and trying to get them to buy a
bottle of cheap knockoffs of perfume and cologne. I heard from some customers
that the product stained their clothes and didn't smell good after a few
weeks. That is stupid! The cheap product is a ripoff and the job is very
unrewarding. The management is getting rich off of the unknowledgeable people
they get to go out and do their dirty work. How mean is that? They didn't
even tell you what the company was doing exactly until training. The second
interview just told you where the offices are, the brief history of the
company and how rich those people were, and that you were selling perfume.
They did not say that you had to travel all over the place to sell it and how
you were to sell it (soliciting). The job was sleazy and uncomfortable.
Please Help me figure out how to take this company down. I want to help
protect others from this scam.
Meg
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