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Primerica
So on Friday when I got home there was a hand-addressed envelope waiting for me from a company I had never heard of. I never get hand-addressed mail except from a few relatives, and I'm not even certain that they have my new postal address.
Primerica Financial Services
Inside was a short, one-line note: "I am trying to reach you regarding a position at our company. Please call me at ........." (Plus the business etiquette-correct placement of to: and from: addresses) Or words to that effect; I don't have the paper in front of me.
Okay, I admit it - I should have been suspicious. No details were given of how my name/address were discovered, nor were any details given about the position. Actually, the part that intrigued me most was how they had gotten my current postal address; the last time I was posting my resume anywhere my postal address was different.
But I decided to call them anyway. Not too surprisingly, I was unable to talk to the person whose name was in the letter, but did reach a helpful phone grunt who took my message and told me a little about what to expect. Now I'm signed up for a group meeting 7:30 tomorrow evening at their office with their head of sales. (the guy who signed the letter) This smells so incredibly much like my ill-fated summer with Vector MarketingTM that it's giving me flashbacks. (If you are lucky enough to be ignorant of this particular scam, let google enlighten you) The best case scenario that I see now is free food at the group meeting.
At least this time I know enough to run.
I also now know (well, very strongly suspect) that prior to my return call today they knew nothing about me beyond a name and an address, so I don't need to worry that somehow an old copy of my resume has become associated with my current address.
It just now occurred to me that this meeting conflicts with watching Buffy. Well, so much for even the nebulous hope of anything out of this except annoyance.
Primerica Financial Services
Inside was a short, one-line note: "I am trying to reach you regarding a position at our company. Please call me at ........." (Plus the business etiquette-correct placement of to: and from: addresses) Or words to that effect; I don't have the paper in front of me.
Okay, I admit it - I should have been suspicious. No details were given of how my name/address were discovered, nor were any details given about the position. Actually, the part that intrigued me most was how they had gotten my current postal address; the last time I was posting my resume anywhere my postal address was different.
But I decided to call them anyway. Not too surprisingly, I was unable to talk to the person whose name was in the letter, but did reach a helpful phone grunt who took my message and told me a little about what to expect. Now I'm signed up for a group meeting 7:30 tomorrow evening at their office with their head of sales. (the guy who signed the letter) This smells so incredibly much like my ill-fated summer with Vector MarketingTM that it's giving me flashbacks. (If you are lucky enough to be ignorant of this particular scam, let google enlighten you) The best case scenario that I see now is free food at the group meeting.
At least this time I know enough to run.
I also now know (well, very strongly suspect) that prior to my return call today they knew nothing about me beyond a name and an address, so I don't need to worry that somehow an old copy of my resume has become associated with my current address.
It just now occurred to me that this meeting conflicts with watching Buffy. Well, so much for even the nebulous hope of anything out of this except annoyance.
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Most of the folks that I've met there (I've done the beginning bits of training in Cali and could, if I was out there, actually set people up with mortgages) have been extremely nice and motivated and perky. :) I saw a lot of value in their meetings/training sessions, even though I was less than thrilled by the concept of working in the financial sector.