Jan
Sacramento,#2UPDATE Employee
Wed, December 19, 2012
I am really sorry to hear about your bad experience with Crossmark. I have been working with them as an in-store demo event specialist for the past month and thus far, I have nothing but good things to say about them. HOWEVER, when I interviewed for the job, it was NEVER suggested that I should expect full time hours performing this kind of work. It was very clear from the beginning that I would work approximately 20 hours per month -- this month, I have been assigned 30 hours. This is more than usual because of the holidays and I expect my workload to drop accordingly next month.
ALL of the advertisements I have seen online for Crossmark jobs indicate that that they do not offer fulltime positions so I can only assume that your interviewer was badly misinformed about what you could expect as a Crossmark worker. There is no way anyone could support themselves by working for Crossmark unless they were somehow able to qualify for multiple positions since they also hire Pet Nutrition Specialists, Wine, Beer, and Spirit Specialists, Inventory Specialists, and so on. But I would suspect that it would be nearly impossible to work multiple positions with Crossmark because most if not all of the positions involve working weekends. Also, working multiple positions probably wouldn't earn you a very livable income anyway -- I make $11 an hour which averages about $200 a month after taxes; there are also some limited benefits. It's just a fun, fairly easy to learn job that allows you a lot of independence and a chance to meet many people. Nothing more, nothing less.
So again, I'm sorry that you had a bad experience but overall, the person to blame was your interviewer. You had the misfortune of being interviewed by someone who either had a gross misunderstanding about the job you were being offered or he thought it would be acceptable to entice you into accepting the job by exaggerating what you could expect from it. I would have reported this situation immediately to a manager because such hiring tactics would certainly seem to leave a lot to be desired.