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Have you ever had a job or gone for an interview at a workplace you realised was a scam? What tipped you off? When did you get out of it?

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[-] selokichtli@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 days ago

Well, I went through a recruitment process for a Ponzi scheme company. It was wild, but the first filter was an interview by some "hot" woman (sorry, I was like 21) so, I guess I was nervous and passed to the next part of the recruitment process. This third part (the first was only a couple of documents) was frankly nauseous for my kind of education, in this phase, a proper brainwash about how unions, worker rights and health insurance are just obstacles between us and real success in life and some other nonsense, happened to a group of applicants clearly infiltrated. At that exact moment I wanted to go home, but somehow I was feeling unsafe surrounded by the staff (people, I guess, already in the Ponzi scheme). They wanted us to come back the next day to sell perfumes for free or to buy them perfumes to sell by ourselves or something. Of course, I didn't come back, but it was traumatizing.

Oh, actually, /u/bobbyfiend, already mentioned the same kind of "business", except this is Mexico. It's not rare to find these "ideas" being deployed in several countries, like Scientology.

this post was submitted on 13 Jul 2025
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