cydcor pyramid scheme

At least thats what Im reading about. https://www.ripoffreport.com/reports/phoenix-solution/fairfield-new-jersey-07004/phoenix-solution-cydcor-scam-pyramid-scheme-fairfield-new-jersey-669759. I have in many instances asked students if I can share certain things but I hesitated to do that this time. We figured out that the boyfriend of someone in HR got access to our records and had contacted each of us with the same story. You can also use text-to-speech and listen with headphones. Alison, I would love to see the worst errors to go to print. Maybe the OP could ask the student or call the school to verify. I work in quality. Its not asking whether he wants to revert to previous pronouns, its just checking that they want them used in this context. 51% of employees would recommend working at Bachem to a friend and 46% have a positive outlook for the business. That was one of the sorriest things i've ever witnessed. Consumers love to do business with someone that can admit mistakes and state how they made improvements. No one was harmed in the reading of this typo. I apologize for any offense I cause. I used a phrase that was hyphenated although that was mildly controversial in the field. Johnson said that her parents were turned down by a judge in Tampa, but travelled to Pinellas County, where a judge approved her marriage. The posting time indicated is Arizona local time. This BS company is really just a pyramid scam!!!! Ive listened to The Dream its above the level of, say, LuLaRoe or Herbalife, but only just. ), some who have a prefered set and a set they dont mind, and some who just like all the pronouns they use about equally. If they say no you have let them know you noticed the conversation. They teach recruits how to brainwash and manipulate people. Not sure if he had violence in mind or just wanted to scare us, but happily nobody actually fell for it. What I love about this is that if the person decides to come in the next day, they will see 10 more interviews in the lobby, wow that position was really going to be filled up. Advertisers above have met our 8. My cats are providing a lot of snuggles as I send out applications to other, better, fully background-checked jobs. 3. Beware of Cydcor and their little sister companies this "opportunity" is back handed and backwards. The student LW4 describes uses he/they pronouns. What the HR manager is doing is simply mortifying. I quickly realized what a scam it was, having to show up for two meetings daily to motivate and debrief, chanting and brainwashing. If your company has a similar crazy reputation, a short stint there wont be an issue and it may make sense to keep it on your resume as an explanation for the gap / short hop. This is not standard practice for professional businesses. OP, in my own life I have found it very effective to make a promise to myself not to make the same mistake twice. I came to say this, too. c) Physical changes, like printing things out instead of on-screen review, possibly even w/ different font if possible; THIS IS HUGE. Hiring needs to change as well as higher education. I cant give any advice about the HR person, but I hope the above can get you into a mindset to help with your education insecurities. Youd honestly probably be better getting a job in fast food or at Target. Do you skip lunch and tell yourself NBD? If you have fallen for a scam, you can post your experience here to warn others. All or nothing. At least with the people Ive worked with in immunology, your degree doesnt tell me anything about what kind of coworker you are. I cant remember seeing this before, except maybe with a government employer. While this is true theres a huge difference between what youre taking about and an HR person gossiping about peoples salaries. If Tupperware/your standard MLM is just a baby step away from a pyramid scheme, this job is a baby step away from that. I have considered using they for this reason, but didnt want to co-opt a term through some kind of performative allyship. I am so immeasurably tired and angered by the idea that entry level roles outside of specific industries like finance, law, etc. It is true. 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. CLICK here to see why Rip-off Report, as a matter of policy, deleted either a phone number, link or e-mail address from this Report. That is not even the interesting part, it is how the reps are taught to conduct these interviews. That is the demanding side of the solution. Because applications can be super official, you can check that hes using his name in the application and wants to be referred to as Susan in the letter. My fix is to walk away preferably I leave it overnight (I call it seasoning) so I can come back to it fresh. She better not be getting the same pay! Id be concerned that someone pulling out personal info to entertain this nosy group and be the center of attention might have trouble drawing a line. Because people DO have a right to discuss pay in general. or get a proxy to review it for you. 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. Honestly if an executive leader is calling out a minor typo in public, they are sometimes just acting like an ass. There are a million and one reason why someone might not want to come out in a job or college application, and in the context of this letter it actually doesnt matter why Susan is or is not being out. Its all based on lies and deceit. I get where youre coming from, but they is misgendering for plenty of people. Typos about inconsequential things still slip through, possibly because we are all focusing ion the substantial staff and our eyes glide over the blah-blah. and our Regardless of whether education levels are considered private, *discretion* is critical to the job. No reimbursements for gas or anything. I am not trans or nonbinary but this is my understanding as well based on people I know. Yeah, I would also just *use* they pronouns. Or the notion that if you've quit Cydcor in a few hours, days, weeks, months, or years, you have failed. Shields up, red alert! It will not out them any further than their health forms, residence life forms, financial aid forms, etc. Id rather have them in a heartbeat than someone with 15 years of postdoc experience on the reaction mechanism and regulation of the ChokTpt / Fergus gene in fruitflies. But if he isnt out to his parents or something, Id check for sure. The brilliance behind the scheme: there was no damn management position awaiting my fulfillment. Who has time to cook dinner?#14 Partial. Everything even tangentially related is fully virtual and fully volunteer, so Ive been sending my resume out to anything I even remotely qualified for. Id previously concluded that educational requirements could and were sometimes used to shut people out of jobs they could do, and this confirmed my opinion. Copyright 2007 - 2023 Ask A Manager. You have obviously been successful without a degree, and you are not carrying student loan debt which is a significant benefit! What Cydcor's scam businesses refer to as an "owner"he or she is the one actually running the businesses'/location's scam. Is education info even private? Truth. The HR experience is learning how to interview dozens of people daily and ensnare people into your psychological sales cult. you can use either he/him/his or they/them/theirs, but not she/her/hers). Only 2 have stayed. Giving clients your personal details to contact?! it's like he's a scientologist, a part of a cult or something telling me "capitalism is going to leave me behind" as if the boss forcing him to stay at cydcor had told him that every day for years. That was literally the only reason the work didnt change. The students deadname is going to be all over their application materials. I am fan of reading it out loud, which can also be good presentation practice too. The reasoning was I missed 1 day due to being sick (having a fever of 101, but don't worry I came into work the rest of the week even with a fever because that's smart, get the coworkers/business owners sick) and not attending the OPTIONAL Thursday night office outtings. Unfortunately you may want to take whatever you can get I t order to get out of there. When I am getting close to finishing up my written reports, that I also present out, I will put my decks in presentation mode and read them out loud. They do door to door sales. This is why a second person is so important. YOU DONT NEED A SALESMAN TO GET OFFICE SUPPLIES FOR YOUR BUSINESS, YOU CAN DO IT YOURSELF ONLINE. I didnt want the information to be blabbed about because it had no bearing on anything. If youre on the same level as these people laughing about it, and you did it without the insane debt, I dont see any negative here. What was the work purpose for this? My sister has ZERO patience for minutiae and often rushes and misses mistakes. As with Alisons answer, those are also good points. Working retail sucks in nearly every way, but it produces a paycheck. Our HR manager is very immature and has done several things that I question (mostly sharing private information) but I tend to just mind my own business. Our field lends itself very well to being riddled with mistakes. Ive known some people who are absolutely delighted when people alternate like another Hero did (great name btw! I noticed that often Ill be looking and re-reading and re-checking to make sure presentation is error-free and then turns out I missed something. . I have done many Google and Glassdoor searches on the company, and all came back positive. I think in a college application where Susan probably has a chance to put in both his birth certificate name and the name hes currently using, the lw does not need to take on this responsibility unless asked. When I started, my university was state supported, then state encouraged and currently state acknowledged. All these red flags so far, BUT I am tired of living with my parents and applying for jobs; it seemed like a Godsend to an impatient young recent college graduate second guessing his forte in science. how can we keep morale up during our busy holiday season when were all at home? So I guess my question is, "Why doesn't Cydcor garner client companies which could actually benefit drastically from door-to-door salesmen instead of client companies which are doing just fine selling their own products themselves?". I lost a little over a grand from my savings from being a waiter during college by investing in moving down to Baton Rouge to work for this company. If you were in sales and not HR it might be one thing, but HR for a horribly run pyramid company is not ideal experience. Were cheering you on! GroupMs technology mission is two-fold: Use our scale to provide tested and effective products for clients and create a unified technology and data approach that helps brands deliver the future of media today. RED FLAG 4. Their choice may even vary from job to job. OMG I totally worked for a Cydcor company. Im working for a pyramid scheme When you are dealing with lots of little pieces of information, and they need to be right, it is folly to go it alone. At least in my industry, your schools and degrees are often included as background information in client proposals, so keeping them secret is not an option. After reading about the company, finding negative and downright frightening reviews, and then digging into how it REALLY got started; well Ive decided to take employment elsewhere. I took my time finding a real job after that no matter if I needed money then and now. how much social media use at work is too much? I often see small typo/grammatical errors in our management presentations. Go figure. Press question mark to learn the rest of the keyboard shortcuts, http://ethanvanderbuilt.com/2015/02/27/cydcor-ds-max-scam-opinion/. Are they more like typos? Just recruiting more people (who also dont have to buy stuff) wouldnt seem to lead to any money being made by the company. The group's leadership dictates sometimes in great detail how members should think, act, and feel. Although I dont have much confidence in your HR higher ups doing the right thing. (Universal Design isnt just to help people with disabilities). Youre not committing a faux pas. Except we had the dot-com bust right about then, so nobody was hiring in technical writing anyway, and I took an opportunity to go to grad school. It is not right, but it is a fact. Some workers have less formal education than others and there is no need to share that with their peers doing the same job. I agree with everyones advice. so anything other than block text needs extra scrutiny. I imagine that so few people stay for 6 months, they dont expect to ever have to follow through. consider whether it is a matter of temperament. 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. Its different when the deadname has to be used in a legal document vs is being actively used by a human being you respect enough to ask for a recommendation letter. The Cydcor affiliates call themselves "direct sales and marketing firms" but it has been documented by people who worked and interviewed with the affiliates that the primary focus is on door-to-door sales. LW 3, I cant imagine its ok for the HR manager to go into personnel files and pull out information to share. But honestly Id check in with your student first to find out what they want or need in this situation. The HR person was being a jerk, and I am sorry your coworkers joined in rather than pushing back on that the way they should have. There is no indication it went beyond education, but I could easily imagine the next question being about salaries. I find this a bit offensive to say one must take classes/ get a university degree to advance themselves. Its your job to find, recruit, and sucker more people to join an organization to "help you" get promoted. (Shady), she did this at least 2-3 times a week. More importantly, OP if it bothers you, please look into going back to school. Break ties with all who might want you to quit.#13 Yes. In my case, medication and cognitive behavioral therapy made a world of difference. Please check with Susan which name/pronouns combo they want you to use. If it wasnt for all of the above stuff, Id be totally fine with selling office supplies door-to-door for low pay- I like to think I am humble and try to work hard, I actually used to wash dishes at restaurants in high school. Ive used Voice Dream, personally. I think it might be worth it to flag the name change, just briefly. Ive struggled with this too and looking back, the experiences where I just wanted to get it over with or felt more anxious than expected about presenting, took place in fairly unhealthy working environments. Seasonal work in retail or warehouse work can be very lucrative these months if youre able to work overtime, and while theyre not easy jobs they typically dont invite moral dilemna. If someone laughs, remember your accomplishments and walk away proud. Turns out thats a great way to emphasize that they really is for everyone and not just for trans people or (insert stereotype about snowflakes here). making it bold or changing the colour) But if its frequent, there can be value in saying, Im aware of this and Im doing XYZ to address it., 3. They bring in revenues with practically no risk factor. 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. Id prefer they but Im not so attached to it that I cant cut people some slack. Im very good with big picture and pride myself about being obsessive about details. Both techniques make you really look at whats there, and doesnt let your brain fill in what it knows should be there. You > Them. Get backup. The owner gets to go on a lot of vacations while the staff does door to door sales all day. This job cuts you off emotionally and is frustrating to the point that you don't realize how much you are cut off in this pyramid scheme and if an employee quits essential they are a black eye and are normalnever referenced or are ridiculed in private. I took the weekend to consider the "opportunity" I was presented with. Since OP was concerned about the letter looking mismatched, I think a lot of people use they so it wouldnt matter what the name was that goes with it. If financially its not an option to just quit, Id recommend continuing to actively look for something else. If you only do this for students who have made specific requests to you about pronouns, odds are youre only going to do it for trans students and itll be a way of disclosing their trans status. My LinkedIn profile states Im not looking to move employers. Everyone was wearing nice suits so I thought "cool." Who's crazy enough to start this website? All those folks with PhDs? In this context, its pretty obvious that its about a single person, and I would expect most colleges to be hip to the notion of people choosing their pronouns. The day is coming to an end and the interview is coming back to the office. So again, thank you for sharing, kind stranger online. This was immediately confusing to me, as they said they had not sold these office supplies but cable instead (Cydcor wasnt mentioned until the first powerpoint). Pyramid scheme under a company called Cydcor. 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. Probably for the best. I managed to start building a halfway-decent team, I gained some guys, lost a few, had some really good sales weeks and months, always made my bills, even started actually being able to save. For people I know who do this, their first choice is the first pronoun, but they are also perfectly fine with the second if its easier for you. NO. My team found The Guy. 5) Close the interview, now this is the most interesting part because I dont' know too many companies who don't care about how an interview went, just that the person is closed. Get out while you can. Meanwhile, hold your head high. At the one recruitment seminar thing I went to, once it was clear that they expected people to sell to their personal networks, I knew i could never make money (I wasnt living near my extended family, which was their main example, and all my friends were broke students and new grades like me) so I told the guy no thank, and he tried to bully me with stuff like Youll regret it with You just need to ~believe in yourself~ more peppered in. Also, if the student specifically said he/they pronouns, specifying which they want in this case is not asking them to go by a non-preferred pronoun, just if they have a more specific preference for this context. In this case, assuming the student gives you the language they would prefer you use, I think the benefit to the student outweighs the propriety of not specifying the pronouns. 11 hour days. You only want to be socializing with positive attitude people. That was the end of that for me. can I get my coworker to stop using awful corporate jargon? If such a culture doesnt currently exist at your company, you can try starting it! Sidebar- I TOTALLY have been there- I had a boss who was kind of a jerk about every time I made a mistake and I swear I made more mistakes with him than any other boss. Or they have one, but not all of them were magna cum laude, ok? Read it aloud to yourself if you can, or cultivate a trusted colleague to trade presentations with so you have a second set of eyes. Repackaged from Purchased from Amazon, stealing all certifications and false manufacturing markers from the packaging of NB food supplements. There is a giving side of the solution. So he got a masters. But if it doesnt fit your life right now, or if you dont want to get a degree for any other reason, dont feel pressured to or ashamed about it. My GP helped out with some meds and I got lots of cat cuddles at home. (In my case I quit and provided evidence to the prosecution when they ended up in the high court. my toxic former employee is poisoning my staff, my employee blows up my phone with memes and videos even in the middle of the night and refuses to stop, VP is pressuring everyone into choreographed dances, boss eats while on the phone, and more, I got in trouble for using a mouse jiggler despite my excellent work, 10 impressive questions to ask in a job interview, my employee doesnt think were doing enough about bears at work, I caught my employee in a compromising position in the parking lot, employer only gives raises for promotions months later, and more. One of her own people? Just seeing your words in a different format is a big help. OP should complain about the HR person to her boss. Im just wondering if there were any such letters previously. During my two interviews, the office seemed legit. Elenia, if you dont mind my asking, what country are you in? I am so sorry your HR department person is being immature and acting that way. Being able to put a different company name on your resume might mitigate the problem somewhat, but if a savvy interviewer digs into what the company really is, its going to be a problem. #2: If youre able, try printing off the documents/presentation, or even change up the appearance on the computerdifferent font and line spacing.
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