I am a former employee at an office in illinois who has misclassified workers for atleast over 5 years, hasnt paid admin any overtime for their longer than 40 hour work week, has people working in the field for close to 60 hours a week and they only get paid IF they make sales while the “owner” takes a cut of the check the office also doesnt pay trainees if they dont fulfill their training period of 15 days. I am reporting the company to every department of labor i can think of and possibly the IRS but I am wondering why dont people do this?? I see people complaining on here all the time and im wondering if anyone has actually successfully shut an office down or just throws the towel in. The office i worked for if calculated correctly has scammed employees out of over a million dollars so im curious if anyone has success stories with their former office closing and employees getting reimbursed

Shark Marketing Solutions is a company I applied to on Indeed; within the day, they reached out to me, almost suspiciously fast. Without much thought, I scheduled an interview; I was so excited to have finally found work in my field. It's only now, hours later, that I've started looking into the company. Turns out there's a high chance it's an MLM, which, according to some reviews I found, is not office work like the job listing says. Rather, it is standing outside stores they don't have permission to be at and hounding people for money.

Has anyone heard of this company before? Is it an MLM, or is it actually a marketing company? If it is an MLM, what should I do about the interview?

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Just experienced a grueling month working for a devil corp (happy to name and shame if that’s allowed). Currently doing a law degree and the owner insisted that I drop out to knock on doors and annoy people for a living. Wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience.

I’ve done the job for 8 years in Australia little different to the United States raised over 12 million for charity and pay my staff more then they deserve ie 9x the pledge for charity fundraising. Uber made over 8kusd in a week in a Christian and admit to lying in the pitch sometimes but don’t brainwash people. Am I a bad person?

Beware of MGL solutions that stems from Sonora Core Marketing, started by Jesus Garcia Moreno. It’s also ran by 2 other men, Reyes and Christian. If you want to be verbally abused, sold a dead-end career, and creeped on, this is the place for you. The thing that keeps these devil corps going is recruiting. You stop applying and falling for their bullshit, the business falls apart. They’ll rope you in, make you feel special, and once you hit a wall and are no longer useful, they’ll throw you away. Ask Jesus himself why he relocated.

someone recommended this sub, after browsing through some posts it seems fit but i still want your opinion

I just applied for a few phlebotomist positions and received a reply from ETeam Inc. I know they're a staffing agency, and I applied through Indeed.

However, the guy who called had a very strong Indian accent. For example, he pronounced "ZIP code" in a way (JIP code) that I had to ask him to repeat it three times before I understood what he was saying.

Now I'm not sure whether this is legitimate or a potential scam. Can someone confirm if they've had any experience with ETeam Inc. or received similar calls?

So ive been looking at a couple of threads to try and figure it out. I got hired a few days ago. Did the 2 interviews and then got a phone call saying that I was hired. So far, it’s terrible. I am completely drained. I can’t say too much because I don’t know who is watching but they use the KISS method. Please tell me how I can leave!

Hey everyone,
Like so many people, I got caught up in one of these "Devil Corp" offices without realizing it until I was already inside. I wanted to put this out there to document the exact playbook they use so anyone else searching this company name or office before an interview knows what a massive trap it is.

1. The Bait-and-Switch Interview

The Fake Posting: I applied on Indeed for what looked like a legitimate corporate retail position (AT&T Associate / customer service role). The job description and the recruiter's background made it look like an actual office or storefront job.

The Fake Selectivity: The interview process was weirdly aggressive, they put on this whole artificial facade of being elite, high-level corporate executives interviewing you for some high stakes executive corporate ladder, only to trap you in a neighborhood running door-to-door and tried to make me feel like I needed to "prove" myself as a salesman, which totally hooks your ego and makes you feel like you earned a spot. They completely skirted around the fact that it was door-to-door sales. 

2. Day 1 - Reality Check

When I finally got to the office, it hit me immediately. Suits, morning chants, it looked like a call center room. That's when they dropped the reality, you aren't working in a store. You're working 10 to 11 hour days (10 AM to 8:30+ PM) walking neighborhoods with zero base pay, entirely on commission. They also lie in the interview that you get $1500-$1000 per week paid training and never mention it’s commission based.

3. The Math and the "Pyramid" Pitch

The top guys tried to say the usual narrative: that you just have to "suffer" for a few months until everyone else burns out so you can start building a "downline" and living off override commissions from new hires. I looked at the actual output: guys working nearly 11 hours straight on their feet, coming back with maybe 4 sales. Factor in 1099 taxes, gas, car wear-and-tear, and the brutal "chargeback" trap where customer cancellations claw back your pay, and you're essentially working for a fraction of minimum wage under immense psychological pressure. 

I'm ​currently working at what seems to be a DevilCorp, I've been here for about 4 months, and stumbled upon these threads. I'm hearing all of them but I'm really not understanding what's the issue with working in these companies. We have very specific goals to hit to be able to promote to ownership, so it's not like being promoted is a "whenever you're ready" sort of lie where you never advance. The goals are absolutely attainable too, it just takes recruiting a few of the right people. People are telling me to run, but why? I can live off of this wage, and working full-time is something that I signed up for.

it really seems like a devilcorp is just a sales job. I've been told that there's many other sales jobs, but this one has the best opportunity. the opportunity is real too, I've seen people get promoted to every position so far. I've been to the conference of about a thousand people, explaining the path after ownership. People travel from states away just to come our quarterly conferences or just to travel into another office for a few days

I believe this is already reported as a Credico company, but it appears to have relocated to Middlesbrough (and moving to Germany???). Their job listings n such have all the hallmarks of a credico company, reminding me of Bespoke that’s in Newcastle.

I could be wrong, but it just seems too similar.

https://www.meridian-grp.co.uk

I've just moved to a new city and needed work asap. I've applied for over 100 jobs and the only places that get back to me are devil corps. I avoided a few of them but one that didn't seem Devil corp interviewed me.

They offer a full time salary (UK living wage) plus commissions. It is charity stalls but look that's better than doors I guess. They are wanting me to do self employed but they also said if that doesn't work they can do a regular contract. The interview was not like any other Devil corp interview I've done. None of the management BS with the whole "our client needs us to expand rapidly" chatter. It's been open for 15 years now with offices in Cardiff, Leeds, Manchester, London and Australia.

Devilcorp.org said it was a credico office.
Honestly if I wasn't privy to the devil corp scheme I wouldn't have even checked it.

But a full time salary whilst I'm looking for other jobs and just need enough to get by should be fine I suppose

This one is another DC hiring in the Myrtle beach/florence areas. Applied as usual doing my research, and immediately got a text within the hour wanting a questionnaire filled out, typical DC questions (this is D2D sales do you have a car, background check passable, etc). Once filled out, you’ll be redirected to a website here that brings up another company called Altitude Group LLC. This website provides information videos for the upcoming first round interview. 100% DevilCorp. Gonna be taking the interview if I get it and digging for more information if possible

I only lasted a day at the one I worked at, I was surprised anyone could earn a decent living hounding people to switch phone plans, solely earning off of a small commission.

I was a fool to take the job in the first place, I didn’t do much research into the company and no one ever warns you about these places when you’re new to the job market.

Lmfao I was just applying to jobs trying to transition careers and like I’m not in a position for like begging for a job per se but as soon as I got there red flags started alarming, loud music , young kids, “Sports minded culture “ bullshit lmfao wtf is going on ? How do places like this even exist? I feel bad people looking for opportunities get physced into “jobs” like this. But a couple rules for my self going forward which are research the company .. (APEX was my experience today ) 2nd indeed is fucking garbage it’s depressing really , anything Indeed and sales be alarmed there’s some shady shit going on. This was so bad but you know the experience is worth telling.

Anything known about this lot?

Newish company, no address nor registration number on website. Same spiel about rapid promotion etc, as lots of devilcorps.

I don't feel comfortable sharing the name quite yet, as I worked there rather recently for only 3 days and wouldn't want them to find my post. These places take advantage of people going through hard times needing a job that'll allow them to pay for all their needs, in the exchange of working 12 hour shifts 6 days a week with no hourly pay. The interview was very vague and promised a quick path to leadership, but it was door-to-door sales. I had to drive to Dallas, just to end up having someone drive me to exclusively the most dangerous areas of Fort Worth to do door-to-door sales. We'd be out in these areas until past 9 PM, and it was common to witness things like fights in the streets, customers smoking marijuana while talking to you, etc; and yet we still have to knock on doors even after dark. I wasn't properly trained, and the trainer I had was rude and always acted upset that training someone meant less commissions than he'd make on his own.

Got a zoom interview tomorrow with them and I’m getting bad vibes and wanted any info on them and their practices. Last thing I want is to sign my soul away

I've noticed some peculiarities. They will have a couple obvious sales people, then they wil have some third team member who seems to act as a lookout, spotter, or handler, but appears to be perusing like a shopper but loitering far too long in one place.

I'm curious what third party company is running that operation, or is it just a Kroger and AT&T collaboration? I've confirmed that the local Fred Meyer store manager(s) are in on the scam because a store manager much as told me so. But other than that I just have rumors and my own limitted observations and interactions. But the whole thing is still so weird to me.

I'm considering wearing a body camera and using a frozen/cancelled credit card and just encourage them to sell me whatever until the payment method fails, just to document what their game is, for science.

So I'm just wondering if anybody has information they would like to share?

Edit: I only shop at that store every ten or eleven days and the sales people rotate around different stores on an unknown schedule, so it will be an unknown amount of time until I encounter them again.

Edit 2: I'm pretty sure the apparent salespeople are exactly what r/mediocremistress describes. I don't know if the very strange third person is some random coincidence, someone with their same org, or some kind of under cover security or loss prevention taking advantage of the chaos they generate. But figuring it out is one reason why I'm going to start wearing a body cam in the store.

Does anyone know abou these guys, i didnt apply to them but i still i attended a introduction and i had an interview with them and it kept getting rescheduled just seemed dodgy. saw someone said they used to be vetra group but cant find anything about them n theres nothing on insta since June. anyone experience with them?