5 Jobs People Have No Respect For
Are there certain jobs you wonder how people actually do? Check out what people said on top 5 that they have no respect for.
5.Talent Agency Recruiter
Multiple people had an opinion on this one.
“Those recruitment people for fake talent agencies. They do these whole presentations (often in person!) to get new actors and models to sign up at the end with an initiation fee sometimes in the thousands. A lot of the people being scammed don’t know the company is a scam until afterwards when they look them up on Yelp or the BBB. The recruiter usually seems legit. I don’t know how they sleep at night knowing that’s how they make the entirety of their income.”
“My old roommate did this for a short while. They would go to a mall as a talent agency and film a short video of people for free then call them and say they really want to represent them only they need to take XYZ course to get jobs. They weren’t a talent agency, they were just selling these useless courses to gullible teens. Nobody ever got a job through them. He quit after a month because he couldn’t handle the guilt.”
4.Network Marketer (MLM)
“I love how newer “direct sales” business associates will quickly tell you its not a pyramid scheme. I like to tell them, “it’s just pyramid shaped eh?”
Another one’s spouse got involved.
“I lost my wife to one. She refused to believe it was a pyramid scheme. Like, only 50 people out of the 200k involved made any real money. How is that not a pyramid scheme? I have a sticky post on my profile about my experience.”
“I lost my mom to that world. Every conversation was how I wasn’t trying hard enough to be successful. She took money I inherited for college and spent it “investing” in the MLM for me. Of course I got no return. She harassed my friends, my friends parents, servers at restaurants, it was perpetual and she knew no boundaries. She died estranged from everyone with a 24 year old car and living in a trailer. My dad was pretty successful, had a few patents and real estate investments. Had she just lived off of his investment/patent/retirement income she would have been ahead. But back in the 90s she “invested” over $100,000 in training, marketing retreats, buying her own product so she could show people her “huge” commission checks etc.”
3.Timeshare Sales
“I remember lying to one and saying that I actually applied for bankruptcy and live with my parents and they are like “well. If you go on two vacations a year, it’ll be more than what this costs. So it’ll be saving you money to get out of the hole.”
“We (Mom and I) used to vacation at my grandma’s timeshare. A couple times, they offered us a “free night” to listen to their pitch. The first time, my Mom walks in there and says to the guy first thing “look, here’s the deal, I’m here so my son can stay another free night and I won’t buy anything no matter what.” The guy wastes the better part of her day giving her the pitch, showing her properties, buying her lunch, and whatever else they do. Finally, after like six hours, he tries to close and the absolute SHOCK on his face when she said no. He kind of got upset because he wasted his whole day, and she was like “bro, I told you when I walked in I was not gonna buy anything. Now give me my free night so I can spend time with my son!”
“I remember being floored to find out that my parents were still paying for a timeshare that we hadn’t used in at least a decade because you can’t just cancel timeshares, you have to sell them to someone else, at least in this case.”
2.Predatory Towing
“This was me when my wife and I were dating. Her apartment had a guest lot. There was no signs about a limit but apparently you can only be in the guest lot 2 days max. So on a 3 day weekend I was there 3 days. 3rd day my car disappeared. When I called the tow company said they had my car. That the complex put a notice on my car and towed it when I refused to move it.
So I pick it up and pay $240 for it. Looking at the notice and the tow details. The notice was posted at 1 a.m. and then it was towed 3 hours later at at 4 a.m.”
The following from this person seems scary.
“It’s organized crime everywhere. Getting a city contract is basically a license to print money. You can set your price to whatever you want since the person getting towed doesn’t have a choice. Then in my town they charge $60 a day to “store your car on their secured lot”. I got a $25 dollar parking ticket once. The tow cost $250. And that’s with me picking it up immediately the next morning. You have absolutely no recourse. You just have to pay it or basically give up your car.”
1.Payday Loan Sharks
Look at these comments from folks.
“A while back I could’ve used a couple extra bucks, so I looked up a few of those places. I make enough that I don’t have to use them, but it would’ve made things a little bit easier. Anyways, one place in particular boggled my mind. They offered a loan of $1,000 and the interest would’ve come to something like $250 for the loan. I really only needed $500, so I figured I could use the other half to get tires for my car, something I’ve been needing to do for a while. So I went to sign up. But it’s not that simple…..
When I get there and they explain the loan to me, I just about flipped out. See, I was ok with paying 25% interest on $1000, but it wasn’t $1000. What they do is advance you $200. You then make payments to pay off the full $1000 that they “lend” you. Once you’ve paid it off, then they give you the other $800. So in reality, you’re not paying 25% interest on a $1000 loan, you’re paying 125% on a $200 loan and a forced savings account.”
“My ex-wife, against my insistence that she not, got a title loan on her car for $1800. She paid $300/m for 6 months and still owed $1800. I asked to see the paperwork and it was a 205% 30 day loan. She had to pay the whole thing back in 30 days or she racked up late fees and penalties. When they finally hooked the car months later, the balance was over $6k. They sent a letter that they had sold the vehicle at auction for $3k and that they would drop it and she’d never hear from them again and it wouldn’t go on her credit provided she did not come after them for return of the vehicle.”
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