Rose D.
Indianapolis,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, July 25, 2017
Yes, it's absolutely true. I worked for this company when it was TMG right after college in Indianapolis in 2011, before Stephen Kordella had to apparently uproot himself and move to Florida where he hadn't scammed every new college graduate in the area. It was the same routine: "You're special and I don't normally do this, but..."
I lasted nearly two months, desperate to make enough money to survive. I quit my job that I worked through college at a coffee shop where I made $11 an hour and I would have given anything to have that back at the time. I had to drive my own car around and some days I didn't have enough money for gas. I think I may have made $1000 the entire time I worked there.
The hours were like 7am to 5 or 6pm and for the first two hours, all we did were "team-building activities" and practiced cold-calling techniques on each other. Stephen would freak out on anyone who was late and he wasn't even paying any of us!
The whole idea was to walk around door-to-door to businesses (in your territory) and cold call employees (which is extremely rude--my husband is a business owner and he would tell someone like that to leave immediately). The rest is super sketchy--just carbon copies of contracts, no phones to look at, no plans. Why would anyone fall for that? It was impossible to succeed.
Now that I'm older, I have a Master's Degree and a much more stable, successful career, I'm less naive about companies like this. I can spot them very easily. But I feel for the younger people on whom this man is still preying.
I remember Stephen saying that something slanderous was put on Google about him and that he was anti-Google because it would cost $10,000 to have something about him removed from Google. I hope everyone he comes across knows what a piece of worthless human garbage he is.
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Ohio,#3General Comment
Tue, June 05, 2012
Is that really true?