Shady Company - Event Planner PI Chicago Employee Review

1.0
25 Feb 2021
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Pros

There are no pros about this company

Cons

I walked into a beautiful office space for an interview with music going and a ping pong table. I thought, what a cool place. NOT. I watched a ton of people go in and out of 3 different offices for their interview. When I was finally called in, someone took me to the Panera across the street with another interviewee and he went through some printed out PowerPoint about the job. They say you are an "event planner" and will be working with charities to help fundraise. Fast forward - I got the job. My first day I was ushered into this giant crowded room with music blaring and people writing in white boards for "training". I was given a script to memorize for the different charities they fundraise for. Then they assign you to go work at the.....MALL. You are literally at a kiosk in the middle of the mall, trying to get people to talk to you and donate money. I asked specifically in my interview if this is the type of work it would be and they said no. They lied. They are a multi level marketing scheme. Each manager has a certain amount of people on their "team". Then they get promoted based off of how well their team does. The head manager of each "company" makes the money. They have multiple "companies" in the office as well. I put this all in quotations because I actually have no idea where the money we raised goes and I was never paid by the company name, I was paid by the managers name. It's definitely shady and also they completely lie about what the job is.

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1.0
17 Jan 2020
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Just read the cons section, and then run.

Cons

If you're looking for a real career, you won't find it here. PI Chicago is the rebranded name of other misleading "marketing" companies, which include (but are not limited to) Prestiz llc, PI Marketing, and Arrow & Atlas. Their main goal is to get as many applicants in front of them as possible to try and sell their glorified time-share pitch to them. It seems too good to be true, and it is. You will not be able to find anything online about this business in your research. As far as I'm concerned, their job posts on sites like LinkedIn and Indeed are meant to bait you and reach a broad audience. You'll come in and they will tell you that they like you and want to bring you back for a second interview. They will pitch you on how you can make a lot of money and get promoted rather quickly. But this is all lies. They will not answer any of your questions, which is a red flag. It is a contracted sales role where they will pay you very little-to-no base pay, and you will work on commission. This "company" is a M.L.M. scam. They say that they have clients such as Verizon, DirectTV, and Special Olympics. This is facade... they will expect you to be out on the streets trying to approach strangers to sign up for these services or donate. I can infer that after you have moderate success doing this, they will require you to "hire" other employees to work under you. I would bet money that this series of companies actually has very few employees. Most are probably contracted sales employees. And if you like knocking on doors and approaching people to sign up for things, then hey, maybe you'd like working here. But just be wary that they misconstrue their job descriptions to try to get you to buy in.

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