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Old 10-02-2009, 03:12 PM   #1
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What you guys think?

Went for an interview for a marketing company called Magnum. Everything seems cool, everyone there is cool, I'm hired, ready to go on monday. But then I decide to google the company and came across this.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Miscella...sham-dy2bb.htm

There is a company response at the bottom and idk what to make of it. Checked BBB about the company and they have a B+ rating with zero complaints. (http://www.bbb.org/new-jersey/busine...ne-nj-90032637)

Just wondering what your take is on this.
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Old 10-02-2009, 03:22 PM   #2
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Use your own discretion, but i would have probably passed. The whole thing doesn't sound like a legit operation to me from what I read on the first website.
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Old 10-02-2009, 03:42 PM   #3
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lap-tops? thats professional...
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Old 10-02-2009, 05:08 PM   #4
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So...what do they do? What would you be doing?
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Old 10-02-2009, 05:12 PM   #5
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Went for an interview for a marketing company called Magnum. Everything seems cool, everyone there is cool, I'm hired, ready to go on monday. But then I decide to google the company and came across this.

http://www.ripoffreport.com/Miscella...sham-dy2bb.htm

There is a company response at the bottom and idk what to make of it. Checked BBB about the company and they have a B+ rating with zero complaints. (http://www.bbb.org/new-jersey/busine...ne-nj-90032637)

Just wondering what your take is on this.
I hear that company is a better version of an old company called Blue Steel.

Seriously though, I heard it's a letter stuffing deal. Kinda like how Vector Marketing is a front for Cutco knives.

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Old 10-02-2009, 06:06 PM   #6
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If you look, there are ALOT of places that basically do the same thing...they are the ones on Monster or Career Builder who promise you're going to be working with a sports team doing marketing for them, but instead you get stuck outside of a Home Depot selling stupid crap. Stay away, from what I hear they are bad news.
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Old 10-02-2009, 09:56 PM   #7
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paul wyatt. that is all you need to know.

they aren't ripping you off. they are ripping off "senior citizens" by getting them to "sign up for a demo" and then sinking their hooks in with a sales pitch. in the meantime, unless you are really hard up for work, and believe me McDonald's would be better by leaps and bounds - they even give you a uniform! - you move on and they don't have to answer any questions about misleading or fraudulent sales practices since you were only one of the many faces that passed through their door on your way to unemployment., and you were obviously there not long enough to train properly so how could they be expected to be held responsible for whatever goofball claims you made ( which you didn't, because you t/o'd the call to the sales pitch on the phone, remember? ).

it's a horrible, horrible game that they play with people naive enough to answer their ad to begin with. why on earth would they want fresh college grads? yeah, because they don't know any better. go back to the rip-off site and read the report from the person who studied marketing in college - she calls them a joke!

and, ok, they've been around at least since the '90s, since i used to see that ad in the paper (Recent College Grads Wanted/Sports Marketing). that's right, they've just moved out of print and into the internet with their games. no, i never fell prey to them, but i loath them anyway since they make so many promises to people who are at a current low for self-esteem (having been unemployed once, i know how it feels) or people who haven't been around the block yet.
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