You know the old saying, "If it sounds too good to be true, it probaly is." Unfortunately, I had to experience this today. I go off to the job interview and I am looking great. I bought a new blue dress shirt, golden brown and white tie *it looked nice, trust me* and some spiffy black pants and shoes. Not to mention black socks. I gel my hair and its nicely spikey too.

So my mom drives me and its over a hour and 15 minutes away from where I work. I even miss the first day of summer semester classes. I finally arrive and I'm feeling confident. I bring my resume and have to fill out an application. I then get called in to be interviewed. Also, in an odd twist, I was also interviewed with some other girl. So we're asked to read this script. I nail it and not utter um once. This girl is shaky and stops mid-sentance. She is saying um a lot. While getting our information, she couldn't even remember her own phone number. I ofcourse remembered my phone number. I wasn't nervous like her.

So we tour the call center and she tries to make it seem like everyone is "just like family here" Which really means that we all pretend to like one another but could give a shit if one of them gets fired. So it all seems ok. And then, *cue the dramatic music* she informs us that we will try to get customers to set up appointments with "us". So basically we're telemarketers. Second and even more worse is the fact that she says our base hourly wage is $6.75; which is minimum wage here. So i'm thinking, did I hear her wrong. The guy who called me distinctivly said I'd be making $18 an hour. I heard that for sure. I even wrote that on here. Well, the interviewer woman informs me is "the average you'll make after bonuses you'll earn". Which means after hitting certain quotas. ANd she assures me that the average person does make that. Though at that point I'm so skeptical of them that I'm just pissed. I leave and she says someone will call me for training.

Being that its so far and for so little I'm not going for it. You only get 4 hours a day too. Plus they lied to me initially, who's to say what I can believe from them. I mean, I REALLY need to get working but I don't like iffy money. Plus, like I told Michelle, I don't like using my knowledge of psychology for the dark side. Personally, I think Psych majors that go into marketing are evil. Its just socially acceptable mass manipulation. I mean, don't get me wrong, I could be bought at the right price. I would've done it for a definate $18 an hour. I hate saying that I can be bought, but I have to be honest with myself. I know certain values can't be bought, like tricking old people out of all thier money. Still, I just hate the idea and since they were decietful, I just feel stupid. I should've saw this coming. I looked at thier website and saw the opening and thought it sounded fishy but I didn't want to go in pessimistic. Otherwise, it'd be less of an interview and more of an interrogation session. So yeah......

The rest of the day was alright. Michelle loves me in formal wear. She was so happy yesterday about the job too. Now I guess I'll focus on school and finding some kind of position. I just so mad at those jerks, grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr. Back to the drawing boards I guess.