Complaint Review: UGA

UGA is soliciting people who want and like me, who don't want, a career in sales and marketing. I got an email solicitation for an interview from a job recruiter who saw my resume on careerbuilder.

So I open and I agree to an interview. Then I got curious, checked out www.ripoffreport.com just to make sure this was an ok business. Turned out, there were TONS of reports for Mega Life Insurance and after reading it AND seeing the FOX News Channel 6 clip-video, I immediately called back to ask them some questions. I asked what "products" they actually sell, if they had a website I could go to to learn more about them, etc. This is what I was told:

"It's ok that you don't have a sales or marketing background, you have been in sales since you were three--ever since you convinced your mommy to give you a cookie. I have people who work for me that were bread delivery drivers and people who never worked retail or marketing jobs before. I make over a quarter million a year and have sixteen people under me know who I trained. I was a cop for twenty years, do you think I knew anything about sales?? I couldn't spell insurance much less sell it. I could tell you your maranda rights and that was it."

So I ask, "Ok, so what is it exactly that I would be selling. It says here on your website that I would be running my own business? Would that mean I have to pay money first to work for UGA?"

"Well, you would have to be licensed in the state of Oregon first for health and life."

I ask, "You mean get a lisence to sell health and life insurance?"

"Yeah. We recommend Pro Schools. It costs I think around $350 and takes 50 hours of training and then you take the test."

So folks out there, listen up. These people want YOU and ME to sell life and health insurance with absolutely no background and like all the other reports say that their "agents" aren't trained. Well, they're not!! I have a degree in Psychology and a masters in English. Thank God that I can smell these creeps a mile away. I am not so greedy as to try to sell something I know nothing about. Nor do I want to work for a company that gets major kick-backs for scamming their customers.

Two more things: The ads that thaey post for these jobs do not indicate that you must get a lisence and there is upfront money you have to pay to get to work for them

Also, when I asked if he could tell me a little about what kind of insurance they sell he said that it was "too confusing for someone who is not yet trained in it, but that if I wanted to come in for my interview, I could ask questions then. AND that 'it would be another meeting to explain it all to you--I cannot do this over the phone with you, you have to come in first".

Well, that did it. I said that I didn't have $350 to spare at the moment and that I would pass on the interviw. I suggest you pass them up all together. It is a scam for the employees and I am positive a scam for whomever does business with them.

Thank you for reading and do not associate yourself with UGA.

Smarter than the adverage college grad
Portland, Oregon
U.S.A.