Interstate Subscription Service In-Humane treatment of Salesman San Antonio Texas

IT ALL STARTS WITH A NEWSPAPER CLASSIFIED AD UNDER THE "HELP WANTED" SECTION.

WHEN I WAS WORKING FOR NEWSPAPERS, I USED TO TYPESET ADS LIKE THIS BACK IN THE DAY SO I KNOW THIS SCAM HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR QUITE A WHILE.

THEY PROMISE A FUN JOB FOR STUDENTS== GOING FOR THE YOUNG AND DUMB AND A LOT OF TRAVEL. IF THEY STAY IN ONE PLACE LONG ENOUGH, THE COPS WOULD BE ASKING QUESTIONS AND PROBABLY BUSTING THEM BECAUSE A LOT OF THESE KIDS ARE MINORS.

I ALSO NOTICED THAT IT IS THE KIDS WHO DON'T FIT IN, THE ONES WHO HAVE BEEN THROWN OUT BY PARENTS, THE ONES WITH PROBLEMS AND OTHERS THAT HAVE PERSONALITY DISORDERS WHO GRAVITATE TOWARDS WORK LIKE THIS --MAYBE BECAUSE THEY ARE RUNNING FROM THEIR OWN INNER DEMONS.

THESE PEOPLE TRAIN, MAKE THAT BRAINWASH, LIKE A CULT WITH ISOLATION AND FOOD DEPRIVATION. FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND IT IS CHEAP FAST FOOD. MALLEABLE AND IMPRESSIONABLE MINDS OF YOUNG PEOPLE FALL FOR THIS. I HAVE HEARD THAT THERE IS SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF MEN AND WOMEN HERE BY CREEPS.

THERE IS A TEAM LEADER AND SO MANY PEOPLE PER TEAM AND THEY ARE CONSTANTLY ON THE ROAD TOGETHER SELLING MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS DOOR TO DOOR AND THE IDEA IS TO TELL ANY LIE OR WHATEVER THAT WILL CON THE PEOPLE AT THE HOMES WHERE THEY GO---IN GROUPS OF TWO SO THAT ONE OF THEM WILL RE-ENFORCE THE TEACHINGS OF THE SALES TEAM AND PREVENT THE OTHER ONE FROM ASKING THE HOMEOWNER TO CALL FOR HELP IN CASE THE PERSON WANTS TO LEAVE --TO SELL THESE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS THAT THE HOMEOWNER MAY OR MAY NOT RECEIVE. I DO NOT KNOW IF  THEY DO OR NOT.

FROM WHAT I UNDERSTAND, THERE IS A TEAM LEADER OR MANAGER AND ABOUT 7-9 TEAM MEMBERS. IT IS THE TEAM LEADER'S JOB TO WORK THESE TEAM MEMBERS LIKE ANIMALS GETTING THEM ON THE STREET FROM SUN UP UNTIL SUNDOWN SELLING THESE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS AND HAVE THEM OUT THERE POUNDING THAT PAVEMENT RAIN OR SHINE, SNOW OR SUNSHINE. EVEN IF THEY ARE ILL AND IF THEY ARE, THEY USUALLY GET LEFT BEHIND.

IT IS POUNDED INTO THEIR HEADS TO SELL THEIR QUOTA OF THOSE d**n MAGAZINES NO MATTER WHAT.  SOMETIMES THEY GET BEAT UP AND SOMETIMES THEY DON'T GET FED. IF THEY DON'T MAKE QUOTA, THE WOMEN ARE PIMPED OUT AS PROSTITUTES AND THEY GET THE MONEY THAT WAY.

TEAM MEMBERS ARE ENCOURAGED TO USE DRUGS TO KEEP THEM UNDER CONTROL. ALSO TO STAY WITH THE TEAM SO THEY CAN CONTINUE TO GET THE DRUGS.

THERE IS SO MUCH MONEY THAT THE TEAM LEADERS HAVE TO SEND BACK AND THEY ARE FRONTED SO MUCH FOR GASOLINE, FOOD AND MOTEL EXPENSES.

NOBODY IS PERMITTED ANY PROPERTY EITHER, BASICALLY JUST THE CLOTHES ON THEIR  BACK AND SHOES. IN CASE THEY HAVE TO LEAVE TOWN AHEAD OF THE COPS I GUESS PRIVATE PROPERTY WOULD SLOW THEM DOWN.

I THINK THEY TRAVEL IN VANS. A BUS WOULD BE TOO  OBVIOUS. THE ONES WHO STAYED AT THE MOTEL I WAS GUARDING ONCE WERE IN A PASSENGER VAN. THAT WAY THEY LOOK LIKE A CHURCH YOUTH GROUP OR SUMMER CAMPERS OR A SPORTS TEAM.

THEY USUALLY CHECK INTO A MOTEL AND EVERYBODY SHARES ONE ROOM.

THESE PEOPLE GO ON THE CHEAP SO IT IS USUALLY A LOW-END MOTEL ON THE EDGE OF HELL. THAT IS WHY I WAS SURPRISED WHEN THE TEAM CHECKED IN TO THE MOTEL I WAS GUARDING. IT HAS A REPUTATION FOR VALUE AND QUALITY.

I LEARNED THEY HAD BEEN ON THE ROAD AND SLEEPING IN THE VAN AND BECAUSE THEY HAD MADE OVER QUOTA FOR WEEKS, THE OFFICE SAID THEY WERE ENTITLED TO SHOWERS AND MOTEL ROOM. THE DESK CLERK ONLY THOUGHT THERE WAS THE DRIVER AND ONLY CHARGED FOR HIM. ALL THOSE PEOPLE IN ONE ROOM.

I ENCOUNTERED SOME OF THE KIDS SITTING OUT IN THE HALL. THEY LOOKED LIKE THE USUAL THROWAWAY KIDS--UNKEMPT, SMOKING TOBACCO CIGARETTES AND FLAT FACES REVEALING NO EMOTIONS AND DEAD-LOOKING, TIRED EYES. THESE GUYS AND GALS APPEARED TO BE 18-19 YEARS OLD AND WERE ALREADY WORN OUT. THEY HAD BEEN SLEEPING IN THE VAN AND, NO, THEY NEVER GOT A DIME OF THE MONEY THEY GENERATED FROM SELLING THE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS.

THEIR SPIEL WAS THAT THEY WERE WORKING THEIR WAY THROUGH COLLEGE OR HELPING OUT THEIR CHURCH OR SPORTS TEAM OR SCHOOL BAND OR SELLING ON BEHALF OF A CHARITY..IT WAS ALL LIES. WHATEVER THEY THOUGHT WOULD WORK ON THE HAPLESS PERSON WHO OPENED THAT DOOR.  SOMETIMES, THE PERSON WOULD FIX THEM  SOMETHING TO EAT AND WHENEVER THEY WOULD USE  THE RESTROOM THERE, THEY WOULD ALWAYS STEAL SOMETHING, ANYTHING THAT WAS LYING AROUND.

I HAD EVEN HEARD THAT TEAM MEMBERS WOULD COME BACK AND ROB A HOUSE IF IT WAS IN A PROSPEROUS NEIGHBORHOOD AND THERE WAS NO ALARM AND NOBODY SEEMED TO BE AT HOME OR WATCHING IT. NOBODY WAS FORTHCOMING ABOUT EXACT INSTANCES.

THE TEAM MANAGER ADMITTED HE HAD THIS "THING" ABOUT KIDS AND IT WAS BEST FOR HIM IF HE KEPT MOVING. NO TIME OR INCLINATION TO GET MARRIED OR SETTLE DOWN. HE HAD BEEN WORKING AT THIS SINCE HE WAS 14 YEARS OLD AND HE DID NOT WANT TO DO ANYTHING ELSE. A REAL REPULSIVE GUY.HE BRAGGED ABOUT KEEPING HIS TEAM IN LINE AND MAKING THEM SELL KNIVES AND COOKWARE AND SMALL ELECTRONICS IN ADDITION TO THE MAGAZINE SUBSCRIPTIONS,  HIS SPEECH WAS SLURRED AND UNGRAMMATICAL AND IT SEEMED LIKE YEARS SINCE HE HAD BEEN TO A DENTIST OR EVEN A DOCTOR.  HE SAID HE DID WHATEVER IT TOOK TO MAKE QUOTA AND WHATEVER IT TOOK TO BRING IN EXTRA MONEY BESIDES.

I ASKED THE TEAM MEMBERS IN THE HALL IF THEY HAD EVER CONSIDERED GOING BACK HOME. SEVERAL SAID THEY HAD NO HOMES TO GO BACK TO. OTHERS SAID THEY WERE THROWN OUT, NOT WANTED IN THE FIRST PLACE AND OTHERS JUST LOOKED AT ME LIKE THEY COULD NOT BELIEVE WHAT I HAD SAID.

I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THESE KIDS WHEN THEY GET TOO OLD TO PRETEND THAT THEY ARE PERKY WHOLESOME ALL AMERICAN KIDS SELLING MAGAZINES TO EARN MONEY FOR COLLEGE, THEIR HIGH SCHOOL, CHARITIES, CHURCH...NOT THAT MANY TEAM LEADER SLOTS.

I GUESS IF THEY GET SICK AND DIE IN THE VANS, THEY ARE LEFT SOMEWHERE BESIDE THE ROAD OR IF THEY HAVE AN OVERDOSE OR SOMETHING AND NOBODY EVER IDs THEM OR CARES TO EXCEPT THE COP WHO HAS TO INVESTIGATE AND WITHOUT A FAMILY MEMBER TO RAISE HELL OR REMIND THEM ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONE'S DEATH, THE CASE ON JOHN OR JANE DOE CLOSES. NOT EVEN FOUL PLAY. NOBODY CARES.

NOT MUCH OF A LIFESTYLE. YOU COULD EVEN CALL IT SLAVERY.

PARENTS NEED TO KEEP UP WITH WHAT THEIR KIDS ARE DOING OR THEIR KIDS COULD END UP ON ONE OF THESE TEAMS.

I LIKE THE "RETIREMENT PLAN" OF $10 AFTER ALL THE MONEY THESE KIDS EARNED FOR THESE SCUM --AND THE KIDS NEVER WERE PAID A SALARY OR  A WAGE FOR ALL OF THEIR PAVEMENT POUNDING...

CALL THE COPS? AND PROVE WHAT? ALL I HAD TO GO ON WAS WHAT THEY TOLD ME. THEY WOULD HAVE BEEN BEAT OR WORSE. BESIDES, THEY COULD LEAVE AT ANYTIME WITH THE A$10 RETIREMENT PLAN.

I DON'T SEE VERY MUCH OF THIS SCAM HERE ANYMORE. PEOPLE WERE CALLING THE COPS. IT NOW SEEMS TO BE IN DALLAS AND HOUSTON AREAS.

I WISH THE FEDS WOULD OUTLAW IT SINCE IT CROSSES STATE LINES.