GLC, INC - American Cash Awards - Great Lakes Circulation - Magazines Inc. Iordered a magazine from this company via a college student and gave them a check for $57.00 on 9/1/2008. Till today 8/24/2009 I have not received a magazine. Ridge, New York

I am an Ex-Employee of this company. The things i've seen go in, and have been part of in this business are terrible, and some are just downright horrific. Let me start off by saying that this is a real business. Some people get thier magazines, and some never will. MOST of the kids involved are not to blame. The company recruits distraught, and mostly drug-addicted youths from all over the country. They lured us in by telling us that we could travel the U.S. for free(which was not the entire case), and by giving us hundreds of dollars our first week for doing nothing. I am not porud of it, but i have had to scam people before when i worked for this so called "MAGCREW" just so i could survive.  I have seen kids get literally beaten to bloody pulps by the management for not selling enough magazines in a day. I have also witnessed management doing drugs(while driving alot of the time) then they go and drop kids off in some random location where they have never been to before, and sometimes are not picked up for hours or even the whole day. I have been left out in neighborhoods by myself all night, and had to find a good person from the area to ride me back to the hotel where we were staying. The company promotes drug use for its employees. They figure if they keep the kids on drugs that it will motivate them more to go out and lie, steal, and be really pushy with people just so the kids will make money for them, and support their own habit. Not to mention we only made $5 off of every sale we made on the day which didn't come easy because not many wanna buy a $57+ magazine that they most likely will never read, and if you didn't sell anything that day, you didn't get paid "PERIOD". This company and most other traveling crews are nothing more than child abusing, manipulative pimps and they need to be stopped before more kids fall vicitm, and before more people are scammed out of their hard earned money!!!