Since I've graduated college a year ago I've been desperate for a steady job. Even if it wasn't in the major I had studied, I'd be willing to take it if it was full time. Ever since my junior year I have been nonstop applying to jobs and internships and still not receiving anything of note. So few days ago during my daily routine of applying to 10+ jobs online, I had applied to a "marketing company" on LinkedIn for the role of Marketing Assistant. The job advertised that I would be making $44,000-$58,000 annually, it was in an area in the city that I was dying to work in, and I could start as soon as possible. It sounded like a dream.
Less than a day later I got a response via both email and text message saying that they had loved my resume and wanted to bring me in for an interview. So the next step for me was doing some research on their company. They had a website but there wasn't much on it besides their values, some stock articles about marketing advice and a vague description of what they did. It used only stock photos and looked like it was made through something like Squarespace. There were no actual credit to the work they did anywhere on the site. I have a friend who is very well versed in everything computer related and he found through the source code that the website had only been made back in January. My friends all thought it was fishy but I just kept saying that it must have been a startup. I brought all of this up to my parents but they agreed that it was a startup and that I should still go through with the interview the next day. I called in sick from my current job and went to the interview the next afternoon.
On Friday I arrive at the office. Its a shared space with a couple of other "marketing companies." There were like 20 other people there for interviews. All of them, like me, were college aged (18-early 20s). The space was super tiny and I never got to see past the first two tiny offices. I filled out a form with my reasons for being there and current job. 20 minutes after my scheduled time I was called in by the company's president. A young guy probably not much older than 30. He told me that this was just a "meetup" to get to know me and not an actual interview. He told me that the job would start out at Marketing Assistant and between 20-40 weeks I'd be leveled up to Branch Manager. The reason he told me is because this was a "startup" company. If he liked me at Friday's interview I'd be contacted later that evening for a second one the very next day. And I was. And I called in sick from my current job for a second time.
Yesterday I went back to the same office and had an interview (again 20 minutes after my scheduled time) with another person, this time a woman. She told me and this other guy that there were six of us chosen out of 100 people for this position and that only 2 would get the job. Weirdly, this interview was with both me and that other guy but he was for a Marketing internship position. So it was me, this rich Ivy League School guy wanting an internship and the interview woman. We walked down the street and got coffee and tea while she explained "direct marketing" and all of the big name work that has no evidence behind it. Then we said our goodbyes and she told us that we would get a response a few hours later.
Lo and behold I got the job. I was stunned. ME. A guy from State University of F***ing Nowhere who doesn't even have a degree anywhere close to marketing got a job as a Marketing Assistant. My family celebrated and my friends all told me congratulations but I still couldn't shake a feeling inside my guts. So I googled "marketing assistant scam" and my heart sank. My gut was right. "Direct Marketing" was throwing people out on the street to sell sh*t and not a real office job creating campaigns like they had initially described. I had just said yes to a job that was a scam. I had told them I can start work and attend training next Monday. The president told me that they would get back to me yesterday with even more details about the job but so far I haven't received anything. I want to report them so bad after I get a response but my parents are telling me that that is a bad idea and that I should just say that I can't take the job and let that be the end of it. There were so many people there for interviews. I don't want them to get hurt. Is there a good way to report them anonymously ? Has anyone else gone through this kind of thing before? They have my contact and job information and I am terrified. I'm not sure what to do next.
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