Waking Management Smart Circle International, DirecTV robbery, scam, low pay, working 6 days a week for $288, misleading Hartford, Connecticut

I went on an interview here in Florida, but they are selling Verizon FiOs Door-to-door.  They advertise as needing public relations, Junior Marketers, Entry-level-managers, and any other number of non-existent positions.  When you apply, you will almost immediately get a phone call or an email stating that they want to talk to you.  Within 24 hours you will have a phone interview, don't worry, this just helps them look legitimate.  After that, you will be invited to their office for a face-to-face interview.

The place I went to had no name on the building to advertise who they were, and when I went inside, it looked like someone just moved in yesterday:  One to two desks, and a small conference table. There were six other people there applying as well.  Imagine my surprise when I found out that none of the positions they listed were available anymore, but for the right person, they had a unique opportunity!  That opportunity was to go door-to-door selling Verizon FiOs.    There aren't any benefits, mileage reimbursement, or any other tangibles that a real company would offer.  The 'owner' was reading from a script on his computer and was telling me all about himself and how he was in the same seat I was in 5 months ago, and now he owns his own business and will be making six-figures in less than a year.  

If you do apply, and you do get a phone interview, ask them the following questions to save yourself the gas money of actually going in.
1.) What is their Better Business Bureau Rating?
2.) Do they offer mileage reimbursement?
3.) Do the offer benefits?
4.) Are they part of Smart Circle Multi-level-Marketing?

These companies use generic names such as Innovate industries, Premium Advertising, Sharper Advertising, and the list goes on and on. If you do interview, give yourself 24 hours, go home, and search in ripoffreport.com for smart circle. You will see the same process outlined again, and again.

You are the former owner of this Waking Management (for which I could not find a valid website)...you may have thought your response to the OP was poetic and hip, but I can tell you as a 3rd person looking in, it is just downright creepy. And silly, once you get past the creepy factor.

Choose a life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a f****** big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players and electrical tin openers... Choose DSY and wondering who the f*** you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing, spirit crushing game shows, stucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away in the end of it all, pishing your last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, f***** up brats you spawned to replace yourself, choose your future. Choose life.

Look, there's two kinds of people in this world. Those who are trapped between these new city walls and those who climb them and find their freedom. Don't hate me for what I allegedly did to you, love me for what I definitely taught you. Ten years, twenty years, thirty years from now...you'll remember this face, this build, this hairline.

So open your eyes, soak in that AM atmosphere and get wrecktt.

I'm ghost.

I spent wasted six months with another Smart Circle affiliate in a Northeastern state and my experience was remarkably similar.  Well, it was almost the same: we got no base salary at all, and had to subsist on straight commission.  But those morning "impact" meetings, the way the owner constantly bragged about all the money he made (yeah right), the constant threats to fire people for not meeting quota, all these things were just the same.