Complaint Review: Go To Inc - Braintree Massachusetts

Pyramid Scheme:

This job is all DOOR to DOOR sales for COMMISSION ONLY, they instruct you to lie, ignore no solicitation signs, use your own transportation, own gas money, walk around for hours on end in heat, rain, snow... work 6 days a week for AT LEAST 10 hours a day!  It is all psychological and is identical to the practices of a cult.

I fell victim to this scheme and interviewed for a Smart Circle company called Go To Inc. in Massachusetts. I went in for the first interview where the "manager" called me in for what seemed to be a 3 minute meeting where he spoke fast and I barely said a word, yet apparently I was one of the few who made it to the second round of interviews - Yeah right... They invite EVERYONE for a second interview.

Unfortunately, I ignored the bad feeling in my stomach the next day and went on the second interview the next morning. The guy who I accompanied on "the field" told me that he was only looking for managers and that I could make $100,000 within 4-6months. He also mentioned that he just bought a brand new $90,000 car. Funny that the car he was driving just happened to be a worth $3,000 at the most.

I went along with it because I was basically stuck about 2 hours away from home because these people have to drive to East Bum everyday while using their own transportation and gas money. Finally at the end of the 4 hour long second interview, he sat me down and told me how we get paid. HA! It is seriously laughable. Basically, I would be expected to work Monday through Saturday (yeah a 6 day work week) from 8:30am - 6:30pm (10 hour days?) walking from business to business selling crap to people who really just want to slam the door in your face, risk getting fined for solicitation, driving my own car thousands of miles, paying for my own gas... all for... COMMISSION ONLY. $45 for every sale. He told me the average was 3-4 a day. Oh yeah and also the false promise of becoming a manager one day.

Bogus. I asked him about benefits and he said I could buy medical insurance myself after 90 days of working there. Are they serious? The sad thing is that I witnessed naive guys and girls falling for every word of this bs. I wanted to shake them and tell them that their dreams of making $100, 000/yr running their own "company" were never going to happen.

I did research on these companies after I left and found out that 98% of people who get sucked into this company and even make it to actually being manager one day (which the odds are very slim since practically everyone quits by then) leave the company once their branch gets shut down with no more than $100 in pocket and 10s of thousands of dollars in debt.  Also what they don't tell you at the interview is BEFORE YOU CAN BE OWNER OF YOUR OWN COMPANY AND MAKE $100,000/YR, YOU HAVE TO SAVE AND GIVE THEM AT LEAST $10,000 TO GET THERE.

Anyways, at the end of the interview I was congratulated and told that I was one of the few who had that "it" factor. Woohoo I got the job and was going to start on Monday. The second I left, I was gone for good. There was absolutely no way I was going to get involved in such a cult. I was mad at myself that I didn't listen to my gut that morning and stay home, but I'm glad I witnessed what I did because I will never fall for any scheme like that again. I only wish that so many people didn't fall for it and work as a slave for petty cash and false hopes of making it big.