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My last job was an MLM cult disguised as an Entrepreneurship
9 months ago · 1 · Opinion, +4 · Explicit
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Not sure if I’m allowed to share the name of the company but my last job was an MLM. They disguised it as an entrepreneurial company but I was basically working in the office as part of the office staff making the MLM work.
Back story: I started working at this consulting company as an administrative assistant. When you interview for the company you have to take this “index” that tells you how you are most likely to take action when presented with a problem. There are 4 action modes, for the sake of not revealing the company I will change what they are called. Each mode is a spectrum on a number scale 1 being you are the opposite of the name of the mode and 10 being the poster child. The modes were as follows: trivia, organize, entrepreneur, and Bob the builder. My results came back that I was an organizer and loved all things organization. And I’m going to tell you right now it’s because I have clinical OCD, not because I operate in this mode. The results the first time you take them are the end all be all and all other results are null and void. The only accurate test is the first one. According to the company.
If we are going by the index purely and not something actually measurable, I am 100% a Bob the builder. Yes I like to organize and plan stuff but it takes all my energy to do this. I also do things in routine due to my OCD such as locking the door 5 times, double checking the oven before I leave, and unplugging all the appliances in my kitchen. This is mental illness. One of the key descriptors of organizers is that we like to follow a plan and instructions. I hate instructions. Any project I start I always fuck around and find out. I like to dive right in and figure out what I’m doing as I’m going, directions are clunky and boring. So ya safe to say I was not an organize.
The people in this company WORSHIPED this assessment and often blamed their shortcomings on their results. “Well I can’t be bothered to read a full email because I’m a 1 in trivia, I don’t like to read.” Or “I’m a 10 In Entrepreneur so I have a lot of ideas and change things a lot and you have to live with that.” It drove me batty, I HATED it. This was the cult part of the company. The final breaking point for me was when they told me I couldn’t discuss pay with any of my coworkers as it is deemed unprofessional. Any time a company says this you must run. They also said that you would have lots of lateral growth but this would not translate to any actual pay or promotion of any kind. Anyways, I digress.
The consulting company would sell this seminar to people that would teach people to be consultants and then help them start their own business (under the company) using the company’s marketing and website to sell people things. They would sell their assessments to these consultants for a minor discount ($1 an index type discount) and then these consultants would turn around and sell the index and an interpretation of the result to people. It felt like we were deceiving people on all levels. And the worst part was that consulting companies are already to the devil so I felt like I had sold my soul to Satan the whole time. Anyways, moral of the story, if you have a bad feeling about a place, trust your gut.
What do you guys think? Cult?
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I wouldn't say it is a cult, but it sounds dodgy.
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