Talk:Cutco

To be honest, most of this was my own personal experience with Cutco. When I was 17, I remember seeing a classified ad, I applied on their website and like, within an hour I got a phone call to come in for an interview. I went to an interview, this tiny office in the basement of a building, and music was BOOMING throughout, as there was a whole group of people my age doing interviews. I mean, the music was LOUD and apparently, some argue that they do this to discourage other applicants to talk to one another about if this is a scam or not. Vector is really vague in its materials about what they do as they'll say things like "flexible schedule, get marketing experience!" so no one had a clue what exactly it was about. Anyways, they did like, mini group interviews where they interviewed two people at a time, and then we'd go into this main room, and with a set of knives and table set up, with a TV, some chairs set up, and posters to encourage more goals.
So we're sitting in there and I remember people being like "Uh, are we going to sell knives?" and then the head of the branch comes in and says what we're selling is Cutco brand knives. He shows us how their scissors can cut a penny in half, how he can shave a penny with one of their knives and they really do work, it's quite some showsmanship. However, he says that all hirees are required to pay like, $130 for a "demo kit" to bring to each appointment. See, it's not like you go door to door selling this stuff, you get "leads" (as in some poor saps who think $1000 for a knife set is an awesome deal) and you'll go there, on your own expense, to try and get them to buy some knives. Don't sell anything? Too bad, you don't make any more and they don't compensate you for the travel to get to and from there either, lolol.
Anyways, I myself was put off by the $130 demo kit price, as I didn't have it, nor did my parents, not to mention it's pretty fishy when a job demands you pay for something like that upfront.
tl;dr - they hired Chris because they'll hire ANYONE who looks gullible and naive enough to think it's a legit business and not some sort of scam. Yeah, this is technically original research but I do know what I'm talking about :3. --Champthom 09:10, 24 March 2009 (CET)