So i guess i'll through in my own "near-brush" with LM.
This also began with me with an ad on CraigsList (i'm beginning to wonder whether ANYONE'S every gotten a ligitimate job via CraigsList). I actually applied to them two before, way earlier this year - but that was to a SE 122nd location (since closed, apparently). THIS time i actually got called back for a second interview. Both the NE (141st?) Sandy location i went to last month (Sept.) & the SE 122nd location i went to earlier were nothing more cheap store fronts with bare walls, little furnishings, no signs, etc. The whole thing seemed un-nervingly "fly-by-nightish", as if they were really to pack up & close shop on a moment's notice. I give it a shot anyways b/c i'm looking for work & want to explore all avenues.
I go to the 2nd "interview" under the pretense that this is [probably] some sort of management/trainee position where i'd be over-seeing a warehouse, product, accounts, shipping, etc. A guy named "Charles" gives the interview. The entire 2.5-3.0 hour long group interview was one of the strangest & sketchest experiences i've ever had, as it relates to job searching. There was this one loud-mouthed, extremely obnoxious woman there as one of the "intervuees", but i vaguely suspect was a "plant". One man got up, said thanks, & left & "Charles" & this obnoxious woman started talking mad s#!t about him which i thought was increadably rude & childish. "Charles" goes on to talk about how this company got started in Altanta,GA 35 years ago, how they'll set you up with a vehicle, how they take all these wild vacations, how great their "perfummes" are, etc.
This 2nd interview was on a Friday & we were all schedueled to begin our 4 or 5 week training course that Monday. So i went home that night realising to myself, after two days at this place i seem to know very little about them. I have NO idea what their perfummes were called - i seriously doubt they were called LUCRATIVE MANAGEMENT PERFUMMES. So i looked them up. I figured, a perfumme distro that's THIS good, that's doing SO-MUCH expansion in this depression, that's been around for 35 years must surely have a web-site, right? WRONG! NO web-site, of ANY kind. Not even a wikipedia reference. I googled "Lucrative Management", & a direct link to this very RIP-OFF site was the 1st thing that came up, WOW! Needless to say, i did NOT show up that Monday. Funny thing is "Charles" himself kept saying that he just knew that many of us would not be back on Monday, he just KNEW it. Happens every time. Yeah, yeah, that happens b/c people go home then go on-line trying to find something, ANYTHING out about a perfumme/sales co. that they were about to embark upon that they knew next to NOTHING about! A co. that sales nothing but perfummes/colones that's supposedly been around for 35 years that hasn't so much as a damned web-site, who's only contact is a phone with a single line, & a generic-sounding name that doesn't at all reflect it's product! EVERYONE READING THIS, HAVE YOU EVER HEARD OF A PERFUMME or COLONE CALLED "LUCRATIVE MANAGEMENT"? I didn't think so... neither did i, which is why i tried looking them up to begin with.
Now for me this was 3 weeks ago. But LM is still posting on CraigsList. They have an ad up as recently as Tuesday Oct. 20, 2009 in the General Labor section, so WATCH OUT! There's alot of scams out there looking to take advantage of desparate people who're out of work. Infact, i've since come across two other frauds with ads on CL, that are also mentioned here on Rip-Off Report (Pro Services & Maxis Consulting).