Sarah
Derby,#2UPDATE EX-employee responds
Tue, August 24, 2004
okay everything she says is true, trouble does stay around these kids I was talkin at of my opinion I needed a job and unlike some of the other kids that were on crew i did stay out of trouble. Valarie was the one who hired me so you better remember me. Everybody who leaves crew has their opinion about everything I learned alot about myself when I was on crew thats why I knew I didn't want to stay because I couldn't be who they wanted me to be I don't regret joining because I got to see alot of new places and learn alot about diffrent people now the company may not be right and that was my bad judgement of character but you live and you learn life goes on.
John
White,#3Consumer Suggestion
Mon, August 23, 2004
Sarah: My problem is not with the kids but with the company that hires them. I have heard of instances of where the kids are forced to work and can't get back on their own because the company keeps all the money. The kids are the victims here as well as the people who fall for this and but these magazines.
Hooty
New Orleans,#4UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, August 23, 2004
Everything "Sarah" has said, is true. Every few weeks or so, "ad runners"(Jamie, Deanette, Travis, etc.) travel to different states and hire people. (Deanette is cool; Travis is a great person; Jamie is only an ad runner because she is dating Vinnie Pitts, other than that, she is USELESS). The true fact about this job is that it's a DEAD-END situation. I may even go as far to say that this job is a last resort. It's also true about "Sarah" saying these "kids" have no place to go...however, the MAIN reason as to why these people take this job is because they're running away from their past. As for them staying out of trouble, no not happening. There is way too much BS going on behind the scenes of this job, that it's sickening. They talk so much about PMA (Positive Mental Attitude) to the point of such false pretense. Not one person there is positive. They're all fake, two-faced liar's. Now just how do people survive in this world living like that? Haven't they ever heard of bad karma? I admit I took this job because I needed a job, but if I'd have known as to what really went on, I'd have turned my back on the guy who hired me, quicker than s**t. The truth is, I'm so above anyone there and that includes manager's. I don't care that they're Millionaire's, all the money in the world doesn't make you a wonderful person. Which is what anyone there is FAR from being. I just have to say it's very dishonest and misleading for Tina and Bob Cecil to continue with getting the ad runner's hopes up. Well, except for Jamie. She should just be ad runner forever because she'll do nothing but waste her life away on drugs. Now is that any type of positive person to be around? I think not. I had thought this was just a rumor while I worked for this company, but I saw quickly it was true. Apparently, if you're an ad runner for PMI (Palmetto Marketing, Inc.), then you won't be promoted to anything higher. Travis deserves to be mananger, but I have to say I agree with who told me he's Tina's little b***h. Hey Tina, get a clue. Realize that the world doesn't revolve around you and that there are people out there worthy enough to not be your puppets. Why not just have Breanna be your rat nosed b***h? You know, keep it in the family? As for these other "hopeful's" who work for PMI, well best of luck to you. You'll certainly need it. Well, that best of luck to you actually wasn't directed at Scott Elkins. Man, he's such a joke. Seriously, what type of father doesn't even know his own daughter? I'll tell you, a dead beat futureless one, that's what. Just because you come in with 10 every day,(ok, well 10 every day is stretching it, I'll say 15% of the time) doesn't make you one step closer to being manager. We all know the reason you boast yourself up so much is because this job is the ONLY way you have to make yourself feel "important". But in actuality, if you were any type of a good father at all, you'd go be with your daughter, because everyone knows kid's deserve their parent's presence. Well, in Scott's case, his daughter's just better off not knowing him. Wow, I feel so much better. Truth hurts, huh? And that's all she wrote!
Sarah
Derby,#5UPDATE EX-employee responds
Mon, August 23, 2004
John the company picks up kids in diffrent states and by running an add in the newspaper. I was hired in NC that is where I used to live. The company travels from state to state every one or two weeks kids are droped off by car handlers in diffrent neighbor hood in diffrent towns in that state. So the kids at your door could be from any part of the US but please do not hate these kids or whatever you want to call them most of them don't really have any place for them to go so doing this job is a way for them to survive and stay out of trouble most of the time. I joined b/c I needed a job I quit b/c it wasn't for me.
John
White,#6Consumer Suggestion
Sun, August 22, 2004
I heard about these kind of ripoffs on the Clark Howard Show. He said what these companies do is take these Kids and send them into an area to sell their magazines and then are never heard of again. If that was the same person that sold the magazine how come someoone in Kansas is selling magazines in Ohio? It just doesn't make any sense. How did you get to this neighborhood in Ohio anyway Sarah????????
Valeria
Ft Bliss,#7UPDATE EX-employee responds
Sat, August 21, 2004
i think i worked with you?? do you know me?? i was the ad runner for bob.
Sarah
Wichita,#8UPDATE EX-employee responds
Fri, August 13, 2004
Dear Editor, I am sorry you were never able to recieve your magazine. And I am also very sorry that you misundetrstood me when I told you what I was doing. I never ever said to anybody that I was part of the local highschool. I may have worked for a company that turned out to be full of S*** and I may have been the stupid one who thought what I was doibng was true and honest but I never would delibertly lie and say I was a high school student. I am sorry for your misunderstanding thankyou