Kirby Vacuums Lies to prospective employees Longview Texas

I got to orientation and I was told, "You're going to be selling Kirby vacuum cleaners." I said, you said I was doing office work! I even asked you in the interview if this involved selling and you said no!

Then the boss, Johnathon, said, "Oh, you just *demonstrate* the vacuums. You don't go door to door selling them!" I thought, okay, at least I'll try it. If I leave now, I won't have a job and how will I pay the bills? So I sat through three boring days of orientation.

Then I was told, "You ARE going door to door! But this weekend, you're going to 'practice' selling to your friends and family." The boss gave us papers telling us what to say. The paper was a lie. It said that I was giving complimentary carpet cleaning for an appliance company. I couldn't lie like that, so I just told my friends that Kirby wanted me to practice selling to them, but it was only practice.

It turns out that Johnathon wanted me to actually sell to my friends, and if I didn't sell, I wouldn't get paid for training. What the HELL? I came back the next day and I was told that I MUST use sales tactics like throwing the person's old vacuum cleaner out the door, targeting old people and blacks, lying, that sort of thing. If I was told that "I don't want it," I wasn't supposed to take no for an answer.

And then Johnathon said, "If you don't do 60 demonstrations a month, you don't get a pay check at all."

I thought, "What have I gotten myself into?" I went to an old lady's house. I didn't throw her vacuum out or lie or any of that junk they wanted me to do. She had a walker and her son was a quadriplegic because he had been in a car wreck. I got halfway through the demonstration and stopped. I couldn't do it. I called my boss and said that she didn't want the vacuum and explain the lady's situation to him. Johnathon wanted me to make her buy the vacuum cleaner. I quit. I quit the job. I couldn't do it.

Crystal
Longview, Texas
U.S.A.