Thanks for all of the excellent feedback to, “Consumerist’s Job Interview With IDT Energy’s Scammy Marketing Firm.” Here are a few answers to your questions:
• Q:…Is this a pyramid scheme or a multi-level marketing scheme? What’s the difference?
A: In pyramid schemes, everyone loses but the guys at the top. Multi-level marketing schemes spread the wealth more equitably. The people at the bottom work according to the law of averages, which says if you knock on 100 doors, at least 5 people will say yes. From that, management adjusts your commission so you can earn something of a living…
• Q:…did you notice any of that “upper-level management” other than this guy [Chris Polke] in question? Any offices for such?
A:Yes. In addition to Chris’ office, there was another office occupied by someone in “upper-level management.” He too, conducted interviews. There was a third room we only caught a glimpse of, but it was large space with a whiteboard.
• Q:…Did they mention anything about salary, or hours?
A: Didn’t anyone tell you not to ask about salary during the first interview? Where are your manners? They spoke about both. The hours are Monday through Saturday 10am-8pm. The salary works out to about $100 per day.
Previously: Consumerist’s Job Interview With IDT Energy’s Scammy Marketing Firm
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$10/hour for 10 hours a day, six days a week? That sounds pretty cruddy, not to mention adding on the overwhelming suckage of knocking on doors for those 10 hours. Ooof, now I feel bad for these guys.
No one made them take the job.
@Botch -
Well, duh. But for most people work is work and whatever gets you money will have to do. It pays better than Starbucks (I assume, Starbucks around here starts at ~$7.50/hr with 40 hours a week), so I can see it being attractive, but the pay for the number of hours still sounds cruddy.
There HAS to be a comission on top of that. Its a sales organization. What kind of sales organization doesn’t compensate through comission? (retail doesn’t count)
Audition? Ok, obviously you censor what you put on here. Funny how you consider yourself a journalist, and then present a complete one sided OPINION as fact. I don’t know if you know this, but my friend has IDT supplying gas for his Coned account, and he noticed they were way cheaper. There is a site called http://www.powertochooseny.com. You should look at it. Seems it would have been easier just to check it out on a NYS regulated site rather than try to be a spy. If you check this site you will notice they are drastically lower in some areas of NYS in compared to local utility companies. This is just a smear campaign, and has very little fact, and all negatively worded opinion. And. To further your one-sided view, I highly doubt you will post this.
well my father had joined with IDT (a rep knocked on the door and told my dad he was with Con-Ed)and told him he would save “UP TO” 7% on their Con-Ed bills, the energy bills were incredibly high. he was being charged 2 seperate bills, 1 for Con-Ed and the other for IDT. i had called to cancel and the lady over the phone said that the cancelation would take up to 60 business days to show up on the bill, i called 2 months later and asked them why are we still being billed and they said that a cancellation wasnt put through (the first idiot that i spoke with didnt put in my request to cancel the account, but yet gave me a cancellation number) so i finally cancelled and hoping that we dont get charged again.