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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Jwalk0 » Wed May 18, 2011 1:46 am

ShatteredFlame wrote:So I got a phone call for a job interview yesterday from a recommendation I had no clue of but I was curious. The interview was today and it was some knife selling company, Cutco who are reaching out to teens who are looking for job experience...but its obviously comes down to a scam when they want you to test it out by selling to relatives and references.

I tore the interviewer apart. I called him out on the references thing and said its better selling to random people because even though its awkward, it is way better on the spot and related it to a theology project I had where I had to go out and interview people (on film) and ask them personal religious questions. Yes it was awkward but it was a great way of socializing with random people. And kept unfolding his little scam. (obviously selling knives if incredibly more difficult, I was just fucking with him.) Cause how many people are looking to buy knives any way? The dude was pretty pissed and tried to convince me but in the end it just comes down to them wanting to make a sale off needy teenagers. The annoying part is that the guy seemed to like me at first, and in a way resembled me ...I could tell he has dealt with anxiety problems in his life. In a way I did feel like he wanted to help others like himself but he still was trying to sell a load of bullshit.

Funniest part was when he claimed it will look good on your resume. Like what are you suppose to say? "I sold knives in the summer!"

A month after I graduated from high school in '05 Cutco called me up too and I had such high hopes for like 2 days because I thought I would finally get a job better than Chick-Fil-A which wuz where I wuz working at at the time and hated. I told everyone I would have another job by next week and them hopes stayed fresh until I went in for the interview with 70 other people my age, which I didn't expect, and found out it wuz a scam after the first 40 minutes. Early that morning I worked first shift at CFA at 5AM even though I abhor getting up early just so that I would have time to have my day open before and after the interview at 3PM, wasted $14 of gas money going to Cutco and I'll never forget how fuckin hot that summer day wuz. After I played a good game with my interviewer and put 2 whole sets of knives in my jeep I came back in and yelled "It's a scam!!" and around 16 others followed suit but your story's more interesting. I still use them knives today. That and some good friends I made who shared my interests are the only beneficial things I got outta that place. It's a crime how they're doing this to graduates trying to find a decent job just to make ends meet but Cutco doesn't even do that, and Cutco's not the only one scamming them. I ran into too many pyramid scheme people that year and the following year and they were all listed in the newspapers. Whoevers' paying for those ads needs to be ass-raped, stabbed, shot, and burned to death.
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby ShatteredFlame » Wed May 18, 2011 9:56 am

nah I wish I just got up when he was showing a slideshow where he said you will sell to your relatives first and then move to real customers. That should be an indication for anyone that it's a scam, but he based who gets an interview on who is participating on the slideshow. And people were really into participating after.

And yeah, I'm trying to find a job. I filled out about 15 applications in the last month but only got one interview from JC Penny last week. I'm supposed to find out if I get it by Friday. The interview went ok but I'm not exactly confident I got it. It sucks having no past working experience to put down on resumes, and the fact that a lot of employers don't trust teens for their partying and stuff. I'm off for summer now so I will be looking for more jobs tomorrow.
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby CodeZTM » Wed May 18, 2011 10:05 am

See, when I graduated high school several years back, I was just got a SHITLOAD of credit card offers with ridiculous terms. XD
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby pan_dbgt01 » Wed May 18, 2011 10:21 am

ShatteredFlame wrote:So I got a phone call for a job interview yesterday from a recommendation I had no clue of but I was curious. The interview was today and it was some knife selling company, Cutco who are reaching out to teens who are looking for job experience...but its obviously comes down to a scam when they want you to test it out by selling to relatives and references.

I tore the interviewer apart. I called him out on the references thing and said its better selling to random people because even though its awkward, it is way better on the spot and related it to a theology project I had where I had to go out and interview people (on film) and ask them personal religious questions. Yes it was awkward but it was a great way of socializing with random people. And kept unfolding his little scam. (obviously selling knives if incredibly more difficult, I was just fucking with him.) Cause how many people are looking to buy knives any way? The dude was pretty pissed and tried to convince me but in the end it just comes down to them wanting to make a sale off needy teenagers. The annoying part is that the guy seemed to like me at first, and in a way resembled me ...I could tell he has dealt with anxiety problems in his life. In a way I did feel like he wanted to help others like himself but he still was trying to sell a load of bullshit.

Funniest part was when he claimed it will look good on your resume. Like what are you suppose to say? "I sold knives in the summer!"


LOLZ! That was BULLSHIT! I went to the 3 day training unpaid just to find out that you had to work off of referrrals? Seriously? Although I do own some of the knives and they are great, but ya....sales jobs.....lol
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Castor Troy » Wed May 18, 2011 12:03 pm

Why weren't you knives people working as actual ninjas?
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Jwalk0 » Wed May 18, 2011 1:26 pm

CodeZTM wrote:See, when I graduated high school several years back, I was just got a SHITLOAD of credit card offers with ridiculous terms. XD

Shit I STILL get a shiftload of credit card offers with ridiculous terms, Capital One sends me one damn near 7 times a year since 2005. They kill many trees.
Castor Troy wrote:Why weren't you knives people working as actual ninjas?

I did, my comrades and I saved the world many times in the past. You're welcome. And I would jump roof to roof to get my friends free cable. IT"S BAD ASS.
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby ShatteredFlame » Wed May 18, 2011 1:54 pm

My mom has given me credit cards since freshman year of high school for emergency purposes. Worst decision ever. All I did was buy a bunch of dvds, cds, concert tickets, movie tickets and a bunch of other crap I didn't need. Not to mention I have to spend it on fast food and shit all the time because my dad never wants to feed the family with his own money. I'm trying to not use them anymore.
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby pan_dbgt01 » Thu May 19, 2011 12:09 am

Well I kind of attempted that, but I was scaring people away. lol
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Mkid » Thu May 19, 2011 2:36 pm

I SAVED A LIFE ! :D
...I gave blood today even tho i have a DEEP DEEP DEEP fear of needles and getting poked
my blood wouldnt come out tho.... it took like 40 minutes!
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby ShatteredFlame » Thu May 19, 2011 3:27 pm

Mkid wrote:I SAVED A LIFE ! :D
...I gave blood today even tho i have a DEEP DEEP DEEP fear of needles and getting poked
my blood wouldnt come out tho.... it took like 40 minutes!

I did this months ago for my school. I don't have a fear of needles but I have anxiety problems and can faint easily from never eating enough. Stupid nurse fucked up on me too and I barely made it out of school without almost passing out on every period that day.
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Castor Troy » Thu May 19, 2011 4:29 pm

Looks like I'm only getting a small slap on the wrist and no late fees were charged for the semi late checks I mailed at work.

whew! :sweat:
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby CodeZTM » Thu May 19, 2011 4:44 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Looks like I'm only getting a small slap on the wrist and no late fees were charged for the semi late checks I mailed at work.

whew! :sweat:


Celebratory cheers are in order. |:>
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Devolution » Thu May 19, 2011 6:21 pm

Castor Troy wrote:Looks like I'm only getting a small slap on the wrist and no late fees were charged for the semi late checks I mailed at work.

whew! :sweat:


good stuff, glad to see things came out alright.
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby pan_dbgt01 » Thu May 19, 2011 7:05 pm

ShatteredFlame wrote:My mom has given me credit cards since freshman year of high school for emergency purposes. Worst decision ever. All I did was buy a bunch of dvds, cds, concert tickets, movie tickets and a bunch of other crap I didn't need. Not to mention I have to spend it on fast food and shit all the time because my dad never wants to feed the family with his own money. I'm trying to not use them anymore.


What? That's crazy! What's with parents these days? Provide for your children dammit!
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Re: THE HAPPY THREAD

Postby Qyot27 » Fri May 20, 2011 1:42 pm

I have a credit card balance of $108.12 (functionally), and once I deposit the money I have on my desk into my checking account, I can finally zero my part of that balance.

I did make a few purchases* against birthday and Christmas gifts, though - if I can pay for those before October, then I'm good. Otherwise, they're leveraged, and I'm considering them as already paid-for right now.

*Speaking of which (and the other real reason I'm posting in this thread), two of them - K-ON! Blu-ray Vol.1 and a Touhou fanbook - came in the mail today. K-ON! was pissing me off, because Barnes and Noble delayed it twice and was going to cancel the order if I didn't tell them I still wanted it (and I had pre-ordered it, so it should have been shipped out on April 26th or just shortly thereafter). They finally shipped it on the 12th. I also pre-ordered Vol.2, and I dread the same delay crap happening to it. Never again will I order from BN.com - if I can't find it in their brick-and-mortar, I'm going to go with Amazon like I normally do.

The only reason I decided to order from them was because I could get 10% back through a Chase Rewards special, and considering the circumstances, it wouldn't have been that much more expensive ($29.91) than pre-ordering on Amazon for $26.99 (except with a crapload more points awarded). And then I find Right Stuf selling it, post-release, for $20.99.

While this is more like a vent, I am happy it finally got here. That's what matters.




More credit card stuffs, to go with the conversation:

I used to get bugged with credit card offers until Capital One approved me for one in 2006 (I will note, though, that I didn't have a job at the time...still don't, aside from some computer tutoring I recently started doing, but that's beside the point). The only quasi-irresponsible purchase I made on there was grabbing a copy of Windows XP Pro Retail just before Microsoft officially pulled it from store shelves in mid-2008. A lone $330 purchase amidst some sparse, random one-or-two-song purchases from iTunes or $13 CDs - the cheap stuff I had the cash for before using the card to order them, with XP I didn't. I also had to use it to upgrade my graphics card and RAM to fix performance issues, and replace my PSU when it blew out last Summer so I could actually use my computer. So in the end, XP itself was probably paid off some time ago even if I do continue to have a balance.

The funny thing is for two or three years there, I only rarely got a card offer. I think the recent credit reform acts had something to do with that. In 2010 it picked up again, as Capital One's renewal was coming up. And now it's mostly American Express and Mastercard wanting me to sign up. Sorry, but I'm not about to pay an annual fee for the privilege of using a credit card.

However, I simply worked out a plan with my grandparents and relatives to do work for them to pay it off, or use extra birthday money and so forth. And well, there's also been some cases of me lending my parents use of the card so that they in fact owe me money which goes toward the payments and provides me with time to earn money to pay down my part of the balance. I've also switched from Capital One to Chase (which approved me last year) because with Chase I earn points, I have a substantially higher credit limit (Capital One's is $500, Chase's is $2700), I have zero interest until next February (I always had 16%, now I think 17 or 18%, on Capital One), $100 of points for signing up which I redeemed for cash and used to pay down on the balance, and only a small fraction of that balance is mine. There's really no reason at all for me to use the Capital One card, and it mildly pisses me off because the card design I requested when I signed up didn't actually get used on my card until I got my new one. 4 years later and they finally give me the right design, and I have no reason to use it anymore.

The better news is that if I can manage to get a steadily-paying job and pay off my parents' side of the balance, they'll owe me enough for me to be able to build a new computer and possibly pay for another course or two toward my Digital Film Production cert that's been on hiatus since the end of 2006 (I need the computer for that first, though). But I'm not hedging bets on that. If I get steady tutoring appointments over the Summer I might be able to scrape together enough for at least one or two of the computer parts, however.
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