About 15 years ago, my girlfriend's roommate was working as a Kirby sales person. She got paid strictly on commision. They would send her out to all these houses to demonstrate (Their demonstration was a complete vacuum and carpet shampoo of their entire house). She worked there a month and didn't make a single penny. I think she actually sold a couple, but for some reason or another they convinced her she wasn't entitled to the commision.
She wasn't the sharpest knife in the block, so it took her about a month to realize she was being screwed. In more ways than one too. She started dating her boss about 2 weeks after she started working there. He was about the sleeziest thing I'd ever seen. It seemed like he was rolling in the dough making money off the backs of people like this girl. In a bizzarre move, he bought her a brand new GMC Tracker (The Fido Dido Version, with the guy painted all over it) a week after they started dating. That was his undoing though, we were finally able to convince her that he and the job were just not right.
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