Privacy Policy and Affiliate Disclosures. One of her own people? Some people in this life have been told that college is not for them or that they are not smart enough for college. Youll notice when something sounds strange. If you think it will get traction and have the connections you can run it high up the chain. I got Word to read my essays to me in university for that reason, but it really doesnt like reading anything earlier than 1900 as a year. That is the demanding side of the solution. checklists, especially for tasks you dont do frequently. IN 3 WEEKS THEY SENT 3 OF MY RECIPIENTS DEAD FROZEN TINY BOUQUETS calgary, Ponce motors Deceptive car sales Austin Texas, Nextiva efax overcharged me for an entire year even before the monthly trial expired able to use the service at all. Id look for errors that were most significant in the following ways: a the ones that make the biggest impact on the analysis: When forecasting our HR budget, getting the salaries of junior employees wrong by 1% had a much smaller effect on the overall forecast than getting the salaries of senior employees wrong by 1%. Youre too familiar with it. I get what you are saying but my hesitation with asking the student who has taken the big step to embracing who they are to essentially reconsider just didnt feel right. If theyre revealing this with disregard for your personal data, they are also perfectly capable of gossiping about truly confidential things and your org should worry about that. Id only be laughing at myself if I pointed out that I spent all that time and money on the degree, and have ended up in exactly the same position as everyone else. Its not sounding a lot different to that Ponzi scheme I mentioned in how they treat their staff. Right! After the crowds subsided and it was time to go back to 'reality' that is when the pain hit me. You are not reimbursed for travel and another thing as well their is a "15% hold back" on all your checks so literally all the money you made is 15% less than it should. If no one else is reviewing your work before it gets to them I think thats a bad setup unless there is literally no time to allow for that for some reason. Thank you to anyone who answers my question or calls me out for offending the non-binary community. But Cutco knives you can't buy online or at a store, Vemma energy drinks you can't buy online or at a store. I think that most students have a specific request around their pronouns, actually maybe not many students that you know of use more than one set of pronouns or names, and not many students that you know of have recently changed something about their pronouns or name, but the majority of people have a preference on which pronoun they get called. OP 2, I used to work in a job that involved a lot of writing and it was commonly suggested to read what youve written backwards, ie word by word from end to start. HR told everyone. I woke up on the morning of June 3rd to my father relaying to be the worst nightmare of my life. One of my few regrets in life is not speaking up in this situation. Apartment owner wants me to send a Is this a scam or are our mailmen just bad? Asking if you want to revert back to her/she feels the same as, do you want to go back in the closet for my convenience? I do always use the legal name but insert whatever you want to be called, JohnJack Smith, so using a new name is never an issue. I was furious because I never would have used my precious PTO for this purpose had I known it was for a MLM. Id also look at what kind of mistakes youre making and where theyre coming from. Some dont, but just because this request might feel more unusual to you doesnt mean its any more specific than a kid who has always been named Mark and has always used he pronouns wanting to be called he.. Good thing theyre not hiring for IT positions; more than half the IT people I know have some sort of liberal arts undergraduate major and either learned IT on the job or did some sort of boot camp. About 15 minutes later I knowingly asked my boss what the overall company's name was (because these "independently owned" offices were actually ICLs), and he said the word Cydcor very quietly, just as I expected. 5. Ugh. So changing up HOW Im looking at the file as well as letting me edit directly on it, helps me be more mindful and catch things I might have otherwise missed. Im working for a pyramid scheme Our Brand Ambassadors act as the face of our clients and interact with our customers at our events. And then if someone does stay in this toxic place for 6 months, they are probably worn down enough too accept any flimsy excuse for refusing the transfer to HR. Luckily the previous job offers that I had turned down were able to still offer me a position; had this not happened I would be in complete outrage right now. The new name is not one commonly associated with a male; in fact most would assume female, i.e. He has opened up a new company called 45 Inc. Additionally getting a degree costs a lot of money! Usually it just means the individual in question is fine with either set of pronouns. I have considered using they for this reason, but didnt want to co-opt a term through some kind of performative allyship. Not everyone has the same pronoun feelings.). I work with a number of organisations that are trans-affirming and people have their pronouns in their email signature. Please forward to anyone who might be interested OK, clearly this is a mass email to a list of addresses that you bought and you never looked at my resume. This kind of thinking is exactly what led the people in OPs break room to laugh at their lack of degree. they cannot deliver what they say an insane amount of money Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, Attorney Sharon K. Campbell COLLUDES with Wells Fargo Dallas Texas, BlackSwanCapital.co Black Swan Enterprises Peter Tumbas Black Swan Capital The offered guaranteed low-cost financing if I first stepped in high-cost short term financing New York New York, Geeks Ondemand LLC, Lizeth Lagomarcino Papaleo Geeks Ondemand LLC, The Geeks Mob SCAM! One strategy Ive found that really helps me is to review everything in the reverse order of the way you originally did it. =). thats why you didnt make the sale. The non-binary folks Ive known who give multiple sets of pronouns (he/him or they/them) generally dont mean you need to alternate between the two. Both techniques make you really look at whats there, and doesnt let your brain fill in what it knows should be there. OP 1, I worked for DS Max, also part of Cydcor. Run away. It was all commission, there was no base pay, which is another thing they led me to believe. Unfortunately you may want to take whatever you can get I t order to get out of there. Im still glad I got it but you are not a lesser person for not having it. In addition to the daily meetings? We were told to be "prepared" for the entire day, we were not told we would be following someone around listening to him pitch sales to people who for the most part weren't interested, and in the process would walk about 5 miles.You definitely need to be detirmined and have an assholish attitude by interupting store owners while they are trying to work.After the day, I felt like the job wasn't for me, but she was saying I would be a good candidate and how great the company was. The only people I know who use it (and there are a lot of them) are all nonbinary. Lets just agree that we all made the best decision we could at a very early age when we didnt have enough life experience to know all of the consequences of our choices and were doing the best we can with what weve got. Retrospectively, I was far too educated to be in their demographic and as such they knew Id leave after the first day and post this novel of a review across all social media once I finally put my finger on what was wrong with the company (Thats another thing, they all call it The Company like some creepy cult because they dont want to differentiate or delineate between Cydcor and the franchise/fake front with the fake name that they present to new employees). Id never had the misfortune to be involved with a company like Cydcor thankfully. Please update us as you go along. I walk in for my first day and find one girl I interviewed with who had colored hair, another guy who started at the beginning of that week who was heavy with a big beard and really quiet along with 4 others who were transfers. it helps me to print it out and mark on it as I go rather than proof on a computer screen it seems to help me spot mistakes that my eyes might glide over when Ive been staring at the same document on screen for hours. Online, offline, email, or postal. Printing this information out and using it to make fun of people in the break rooms, though, is not at all acceptable and would bring our head of HR down on you like a ton of bricks. The owner gets to go on a lot of vacations while the staff does door to door sales all day. Its not always easy to slow down when youre up against a deadline, but its necessary if it means making less errors (Ive learned the hard way once or twice this year!). Nobody who matters is well served when hostile employers are allowed to operate under secrecy because pronouns are too normie/liberal/PC/dangerous to even address, except when they belong to cis people and those lacking a marked alignment (where pronouns are used automatically, without thinking, without awkwardness, and certainly without hostility.). Well, gee, thanks for the pile on when I was simply trying to encourage someone. Your not required to live with each other - though it usually works out that way. And just own it if an error gets called out. Sometimes I get stuff kicked back to me and I am just truly baffled and mortified that I possibly could have missed it. Read what Corporate Trainer employee has to say about working at Cydcor: I worked for a subsidiary of Cydcor for half a year doing door to door sales and I can confidentl. When I mentioned I had applied for a sports marketing position, they told me Oh, we write that in the ad because we want competitive, sports-minded people for this job. These marketing or advertising companies are ISOs and are setup as a management training program. Advertisers above have met our You are right where you are, right next to all of those papered individuals, making just as much as them, holding the same information, skills, and responsibilities without the debt. Usually the start of the day you have these meetings for 2 hours with all the employees called "atmosphere" in which you have to practice the pitch and help people perfect a pitch they've probably worked a million times by themselves and outside. and the one thing Ive learned is that it is nearly impossible to have a 100% perfect document, even if it is proofed by multiple people. Yes, HR will be calling resumes, interviewing etc. I quit the next day. The free version catches the most obvious. I am a high school counselor. You can use Hemingway in your browser at hemingwayapp dot com. 4) And of course, make sure you preach about the opportunity because nobody will be excited about the actual job itself or the money you will make in reality while being in the field. I've worked at multiple companies over the years and this by far has been my favorite company. First, I've had such great opportunities at the company to work in multiple roles and departments. Im sorry you were affected by what seems like someones pathetic attempt to make themselves feel superior. Anyone who looks down their nose at you for your lack of degree is being elitist and has the situation backwards. I think it generally means either one is okay (i.e. Basically Cydcor is a pyramid scheme. OP, theres a lot of great advice here that I follow/will follow I tend to make careless mistakes because Im often in a rush to produce results. Pyramid scheme under a company called Cydcor. If they say no you have let them know you noticed the conversation. People joke I was born with a red pen in my hand, but I cant proofread my own work anymore. It had the giggly quality of a prank call, but it was unnerving enough that I challenged it instead of just hanging up he knew both my old and new names, could list my high school electives, and said he got my phone number from my mother. LW #2 A technique that people with language LDs use to proofread for spelling/typos is scanning the text backwards. A good example of a typo which hasnt ruined anyones day Alison has written education wrong in the title below your question. I hate your HR person for mocking you, it is such an asshole thing to do, but so are the other people who laughed over it. For #4, if you use they pronouns in the letter, I dont think it would come across as you using the wrong pronouns or recycling the letter. Misinterpreting data? Its your job to find, recruit, and sucker more people to join an organization to "help you" get promoted. Bite, bight, or blight I hope it does that to this HR person too. They tell you that you can work out a deal regarding the base pay, but that is NOT true. oP 1, they are not going to offer you HR experience. Felt guilty so, so much but I couldnt do anything for them (at the time). Mind-numbing techniques are used to suppress doubts about the group or its leader(s).6. Working retail sucks in nearly every way, but it produces a paycheck. OP#3 Your HR person is a jerk I am sorry this happened. Your experience and performance are what is really worth it, and at least some of the jerks guffawing at you in the breakroom, unless they are all engineers or something, may have college degrees, but probably dont all have ones even related to their field, based on statistics out there. I suspect that replying to recruiters makes you more likely to appear in searches and recommendations to other recruiters. OP1: one step removed from your situation but Im reminded of when I realised I was working for a Ponzi scheme firm. Seconding this. Yeah, seconding that this shouldnt be an issue. Well I can tell you from experience that it's definitely not a scam. Even at Ivy adjacent kind of places, letters of rec are fairly far down the list on the list of reasons why you would or would not admit this person unless its coming from someone a building is named after/is on the board of trustees. but hoo boy they were very irked about it. No need to alternate, necessarily I think that would be unnecessary and more confusing. After the second interview I did NOT get a call back, although they told me that theyd call me before 7 PM that day even if it was a no. At least with the people Ive worked with in immunology, your degree doesnt tell me anything about what kind of coworker you are. Day 2: After another ridiculous set of morning rituals, my boss asks me how excited I am to hit the "field" -- I ensured I was excited, but I didn't know what the hell the "field" was. If it helps at all OP1, here are some stories from others who have worked there on the antimlm reddit: Again, its not asking them to revert. File your review. Monster, Careerbuilder, and Hotjobs have caught on to this and have given Cydcor rules on what content is allowed in their affiliates ads. I would use a search find for the first half of it, to make sure no use was slipping by not properly hyphenated. I recently had a recruiter ask if Im interested in leaving X Company. by the people and upper management who train them. He got a bachelors in order to advance in his police department, then was told to get a masters. (Innocent question Im not a native speaker). Ive heard of this at other places too. Yeah, I had a 1-on-1* with this offices HR person, and when I asked what a typical day was like, it was 100% interviews & emailing candidates. Its not asking whether he wants to revert to previous pronouns, its just checking that they want them used in this context. OP2 what I like to do is imagine as vividly as possible that I am now presenting the work, and go through it the way that I would if there were an audience there. That was all back in February and I just started my new REAL job almost 2 months ago and I couldn't be more happy. Copyright 1997-2023, Ripoff Report. Ideally, they would have spoken up in the moment. Shrug it off. I made some money at first, but it dried up as they sent me to worse and worse neighborhoods with no real businesses to canvass. If financially its not an option to just quit, Id recommend continuing to actively look for something else. The system is BONKERS. My resume still looks a little odd to me, because I wouldnt put HS on it and I dont have that higher ed but my list of experiences and roles and 20 years at the same company progressing to higher level positions speaks for itself. So Im a cisgender female and my email signature says Surly Fakename (she/her/hers), BlahBlah University, etc. It doesn't matter what the persons qualifications are, you're job is to close them. The group then breaks out in cult-like rituals by playing games, chanting, dancing, giving a ridiculous amount of high-fives, and praising their "national conference" like its the greatest thing on God's green earth. I did that for 2 months before finally I got promoted. I didnt. I mean of course people feel a variety of ways about this, but there are definitely people who have a preference for a mix. If your problem is the latter though, like Alison suggested, Id raise the issue with your boss, preferably ASAP. Like a creepy Stepford Wives sort of thing. Upload your resume. Recruiters are used to emailing tons of people and only hearing back from a fraction of them; thats just how recruiting works. Im sorry to hear that, and Im sending virtual hugs is you want them. LW #2 one of my favorite things about my current workplace is that theres a robust culture of asking others to look over important emails/documents before sending them. Keep in mind that this checklist is meant to stimulate thought, not "diagnose" groups.1. Who has time to cook dinner?#14 Partial. I sold office supplies door to door on a commission only basis. Hiding negative complaints is only a Band-Aid. https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/phoenix-solution/fairfield-new-jersey-07004/phoenix-solution-cydcor-scam-pyramid-scheme-fairfield-new-jersey-669759, Classic Marketing Solutions The Phoenix Solution Multi-level pyramid scheme Fairfield, New Jersey, Paradise Property Management Ventura Illegal eviction my account being hacked, PPM will not investigate how it happened Ventura California, Kei Kullberg Quintessential Mortgage Group bait and switch you into promising you a low-rate Mortgage Scammer White Plains New York, TAHINI GODDESS Sally schimko Sexyveggies Tahini Goddess inulin Goddess Prebiotic white labeling of non-licensed food supplement. The old things gradually become reflexive, and allow me to keep a record of where I applied a certain style or phrasing, and where I will want to update those things the next time I can revamp my product. Think about this if you are sunk into Phoenix Solution AKA Cydcor.If you check many of these items, and particularly if you check most of them, you might consider examining the group more closely. Dominic Proctor runs the worlds largest media agency, GroupM, which itself is the media arm of the advertising agency holding company behemoth, WPP. I have never worked at X Company or even interviewed there. A lot of people would miss the error in that sentence because 1) they read in chunks, not one word at a time 2) the brain sees what it expects to see, which is why seemingly glaring errors sometimes get missed. I found this at LinkedIn: Cydcor is a leading provider of professional outsourced sales and marketing services to Fortune 500 and emerging market clients.. The last thing an admin wants to hear is, "So what do you guys do here?" That are trans-affirming and people have their pronouns in their email signature you not. 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