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Orion Promotions Inc. Standing in the cold outside of Walgreens with a table set up isn't what I consider a 'career'... Louisville Kentucky
I should of put 2 and 2 together the first time I walked into Orion Promotions..not a person knew my name that "worked there". I was greeted with a nice receptionist that I had talked to on the phone the day before..when she called me not even 3 hours after I sent in my resume on careerbuilder.com. We'd like to invite you in for a first round interview she said. Okay cool I guess my marketing background is doing something good for me, since the position I was applying for was marketing. You would think so far this isn't bad..but keep reading....
I fill out an application after filling up the last chair in the entire room. Five minutes later I'm watching her call people who have sent in their resume. Every person that sent in their resume got called back. Wow do I feel special. As I watched her have the phone in her hand and the list of possible employees on a piece of paper, she called them one by one the ENTIRE time that I was there and left the same message..it just didn't click that I was about to be SCAMMED.
There were so many people in for an interview. My interview lasted about 8 minutes. Leaving there, I was still as clueless about the company as I was going in. I thought interviews were about getting to know the company and vice versa. The only thing this company had in mind was how many stupid people can I get to think they're going to become a manager and have their own business making over $100,000 in months. Get serious. And they are. They will look at you straight in the face and tell you that you will make so much money, as long as you have the power and ability. This job wants to give you 35% of what you sell and 35% to Jenni..who is the owner. The other 30% goes to the charity. No. 35% goes to what we 'sell', 45% goes to the owner, and only 5% goes to the charity that we are supporting.
More about the receptionist..she literally was hanging up the phone with her finger..that is how many people she was calling! I'm called in for the interview and am greeted by a tall man who is nice, but talks very very fast and isn't understood easily. He pretty much tells me I have a bubbly personality and I would be great for this job. I'm thinking great, that's what I want to hear. He proceeds to tell me that he never says this, but I got the job and I will be receiving a phone call from him between 5:30-6:30 if i got it, but don't get my hopes up! Confused, I walk out and go home.
He does call me finally..7ish..and asks me to come in for a second interview, and that it will last all day, to wear comfy shoes, and be ready.
I walk in the next day and fill out a piece of paper that says I will not be payed unless I sell stuff..and that I am being observed. I never wanted a sales job. I'm starting to freak out and this point. But I want to see exactly what is so freakin fantastic about this exciting job. So I meet the girl I'm working with today and we take her car and she drives to a Walgreens near Iriquois Park. Right before we get in the car she asks if I have a coat because it's going to be cold. Umm excuse me but are we going to be outside all day? Her answer is of course, yes. I did not even wear freakin socks just slip on shoes because they're comfortable! Wow now I'm even kinda mad because I still have NO idea what I'm going to be doing.
She going on about having her own business doing this and I don't even freakin know where we're goin. We set up a table in the freezing cold outside with D.A.R.E. tshirts, books, bracelets, etc. This job is to sell these items to people in a parking lot and in return they help out a couple kids in the D.A.R.E. program. oh,I'm sorry the 5% that's going towards that!!! RIDICULOUS! It was so cold I had to go inside walgreens and buy tights to keep my feet from getting frostbite. They tell me over and over this is not a scam and I really can make money.
I get back early which I still don't know why at 1:30 for my third interview and a test. Still, the seats are filled and I feel like an idiot. The girl I was working with leaves and goes back to good ol Walgreens and I'm sure freezes her butt off. I tell the manager that I'm worried about the commission part. I know then that this job sucks. It's a real scam. I tell him I'm not sure and I'll let hiiim know. I leave, forget my notebook, go back and asks me to go into his office. It's not even his office, it's Jenni's. She's not even there. I've never even seen her. Wonder where she's at? He shuts the door and asks me if I want this job yes or no. I feel bad for the people waiting out there. He asks me to call him at 2:30 and tell him yes or no. I never called.
Do you really want this job people? I didn't think so.... They hire as many people as possible, make you work in unflattering weather conditions, and don't get paid for it.
They want you to think this is the best, fastest money making 'career' in Louisville, and is soon going to be at every corner. I don't think so. The only corner with D.A.R.E. visible to the human eye is when Jenni and her employees are at the corner selling themselves because the company went out the door and wearing the t shirts that no one wanted. Sorry guys you all were nice to me, and I never met Jenni..but you all messed with the wrong person...
Jene'
louisville, Kentucky
U.S.A.
4 Updates & Rebuttals
Disgruntled Employee
Louisville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
You are not alone
#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, January 23, 2009
I also was an employee of this "company" last fall. When it got to be too much for me to take on a daily basis, I kindly gave my two week notice. The Sunday night before my last week, I received a text message (Jenni's main way of communicating with her "guys") saying "Take Monday off." The next day I received a message saying "Don't bother coming in, I will mail your checks to you." About a week later I called to see where my checks were. No answer at either the office or Jenni's cell. I called several more times and still did not get to talk to anyone. The last time I called, a recording played on the office phone saying the line had been disconnected. I knew then that I was never going to get paid. Now it is tax time, and from what I've been reading on here, it looks as if I will not only never get my paychecks, but I will not see a W-2 either. I drove by the office today, saw a notice from the landlords wanting to know where there rent was. We're not the only ones who will never see our money we are owed.
Disgruntled Employee
Louisville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
You are not alone
#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, January 23, 2009
I also was an employee of this "company" last fall. When it got to be too much for me to take on a daily basis, I kindly gave my two week notice. The Sunday night before my last week, I received a text message (Jenni's main way of communicating with her "guys") saying "Take Monday off." The next day I received a message saying "Don't bother coming in, I will mail your checks to you." About a week later I called to see where my checks were. No answer at either the office or Jenni's cell. I called several more times and still did not get to talk to anyone. The last time I called, a recording played on the office phone saying the line had been disconnected. I knew then that I was never going to get paid. Now it is tax time, and from what I've been reading on here, it looks as if I will not only never get my paychecks, but I will not see a W-2 either. I drove by the office today, saw a notice from the landlords wanting to know where there rent was. We're not the only ones who will never see our money we are owed.
Disgruntled Employee
Louisville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
You are not alone
#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, January 23, 2009
I also was an employee of this "company" last fall. When it got to be too much for me to take on a daily basis, I kindly gave my two week notice. The Sunday night before my last week, I received a text message (Jenni's main way of communicating with her "guys") saying "Take Monday off." The next day I received a message saying "Don't bother coming in, I will mail your checks to you." About a week later I called to see where my checks were. No answer at either the office or Jenni's cell. I called several more times and still did not get to talk to anyone. The last time I called, a recording played on the office phone saying the line had been disconnected. I knew then that I was never going to get paid. Now it is tax time, and from what I've been reading on here, it looks as if I will not only never get my paychecks, but I will not see a W-2 either. I drove by the office today, saw a notice from the landlords wanting to know where there rent was. We're not the only ones who will never see our money we are owed.
Faerie
Louisville,Kentucky,
U.S.A.
Talk about a scam!
#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Wed, January 07, 2009
I moved to Louisville at the end of May, and was desperate for a job. I got my resume out there, and within days, got a job with Orion Promotions, after going through both first and second round interviews... I should have known from the beginning that it was a scam, but I was desperate, and needed something right away.
I was out in the sun for hours at a time, worked sixteen hour days, six days a week. My fiance can attest to how much I put into this company, including two, week-long road trips to Bowling Green and Paducah, on our OWN gas! We had to pay for our own food, and one of those weeks, I'd specifically asked not to be sent on a trip as it was my birthday. Did anyone care? Nope. Several people hired after me were "promoted" before me and "awarded" trips that I'd worked my hind end off for.
Finally, when I got sick and landed in the hospital with bronchitis, I missed two days. I called in, let Jenni know I wouldn't be there, and when I came back, brought her a doctors note. I was then called into her office and told I couldn't "act sick", despite coughing up a lung pretty much. That was my final straw. I talked it over with the fiance, went back, and quit.
When I went back that Friday for my check, she came in [Jenni'd been out at an event] and said I'd better call HER before coming to HER office again. Well, I'd tried to call her cell phone AND the office with no answer. To this day she still owes me a check, which she could have easily mailed me. She not only owes me $100 in wages, but she also owes me $40 for a grill she asked me to pick up for the office for team night, that I brought her the receipt for.
This was back in August. I still haven't heard anything from them, and I can't get ahold of anyone there to get my W2s to do my taxes. There isn't even a listing for Orion Promotions, Inc., Rising Tide, Inc [which was the same company], or 334 Production Court. Their phone number has even been disconnected.