In addition to my above post, it is very important to pick out the aspects of a legitimate business when looking for a job.
A legitimate business DOES NOT:
1. Have music blaring over the phone/in their office. Such a methodology is as un-professional as it gets.
2. Perform multiple interviews simultaneously. No one, and I mean NO ONE, operates in such a fashion.
3. Have a receptionist out front who grills you with personal questions while you are waiting. What business is it of hers?
4. Take your scocial sercurity number before filling out an application, and then doesn't even take an application.
5. Hire for key positions at high salary with 'no experience required'. Try to imagine a medical group advertising for a dentist with 'no experience required'.
6. Maintain an office decorated similar to your beer-drinking pals' basement.
7. 'Hires' 40 to 80 people per week, every week, no matter what the position.
8. Refuse to disclose the name of their parent company.
9. Belittle their employees with out-right vulgarities in front of others.
10. Demand you become estranged from family and friends as a condition of continued employment.
11. Continually change their operating company name every few months.
I have also included a post I authored under a different thread directly regarding Scentura:
To keep it simple, if one has to sit through a three hour presentation with no clear idea they will be selling door-to-door, then the operation is misleading and unethical.
An inferiour and over-priced product doesn't help much either. A few years ago, I was approached by two young women selling this junk outside the local library. Upon asking, I told them I liked Jovan Musk. 'Ohhhh!' one woman squealed, 'I have just the subsitute!' She produced a smarmy, over-sweet smelling concoction that I'm not even sure was for men. Anyway, she wanted $28 dollars for it, which on it's own was outrageous. I pay $18 dollars for the real thing and in a bigger bottle (yes, I understand the concentration difference between perfume vs. colonge, but it doesn't matter: Hers' smelled like SHIT). And the box the real thing comes in doesn't look like it's been handled by a multitude of hands for an entire year, or have the word, 'tester' written on the side.
I've have recieved quite an eye-full of Scentura and it's scripted operations over time. The most die-hard wanna-bees in these companies have the least ability to think for themselves. All the responces and even vulgar insults that they sling have all been carefully crafted before hand to deal with detractors of all types.
The most pertinate information I've found has come from wildely successful Scentura operators who eventually left the business, and all for the same reason: they all developed moral complications over the long haul by being, and dealing with, the unethical ---regardless of how much money they made.
In a nutshell, 95% of all people 'hired' for the job won't make a dime, and if you have your own 'office', you won't make a dime telling the truth.
The lie spins the lie which spins the lie.
What also catches my attention is the almost cult-like dimensions Scentura mets out to its' players. If you have ever studied the everyday workings of the Church of Scientology from a distance, or been involved with it and defected, then you are aware of the absolutely glaring similarities between the two. The most striking being the enourmous amounts of work performed by the lowly, for little or no pay, and the encouraged estrangements to distance ones' self from family and friends because they 'don't understand'.
In Scientology, if you complain, you are labled a 'suppressive person'. Working for Scentura, you can be branded a 'worthless piece of shit'. Imagine your own sister or mother comming home in tears after being told such things. What conclusions would you draw (and what would you be tempted to do about it)?
If you are smart, hardworking and passionate, you defintely have a shot for this 'opportunity'. If you are all of those things and possess a sense of ethics and honesty, you have NO chance.
On the other hand, if you are just the right socio-path for the job, the higher you rise, the more isolated you will become. Your 'new family' will only love you as long as the money continues to flow upward and the bottles down. Befoul that holy pipeline, and it will be curtains for you, friend. No one will care. You will be shunned and ignored.
One last note: I, too, was inticed into the impossible promises and rediculous claims for a bit after being 'interviewed' and 'hired' by Chis Westphal. Towards the end of the presentation, Chris informed us that we had to be absolutely honest about our criminal background check information.
'If you can't be honest with me', he said grimly with his arms crossed, 'then I want nothing to do with you.'
What a coincidence, Chris. I couldn't agree more.