why do MLM scam artists always use the term "business opportunity"?
what's more disturbing is a company called southwestern company expect students both American and foreign to go into places far from home and ask strangers to give them place to sleep at nights and pay for their living expenses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Company
these MLM companies donate to the republican party and are members and have ties to right wing lobby groups.
http://southwesterncompanytruth.com/
Southwestern Company's Negative Impact
June 26, 2007
Southwestern Company's negative impact
http://southwesterncompanytruth.com/Testimony_062607.html
This past Saturday my wife and I were shocked when we found a young woman walking around Elmhurst looking for a place to sleep. I am very sympathetic to the homeless and this young woman had an added factor that made her case even more distressing. She and two other young people were dropped off in Elmhurst and told that they had to find their own shelter. Then the circumstances began to come to light.
They are Bulgarian students on J-1 visas, which allow them to work in the U.S. for four months in the summer. College students like them come to the U.S. to sell the products of the Southwestern Company.
When these students find a family who is willing to host them, they give the family a sheet that clearly states that the students are expected to work an 80-hour, six-day week. Sundays are reserved for group meetings. The students have no cars or means of transportation. They have little money. Yet the three Elmhurst salespersons are expected to cover the entire town door to door. We know that similar efforts are also being made in surrounding communities
The company protects itself by making sure that each student is registered as an "independent contractor," which absolves the organization from legal responsibilities.
To talk to the students, one gets the impression that they have almost been brainwashed into a cult-like admiration of the business mode they are in. Yet we think that using these international [as well as national] college students as the lowest rung of a multi-layered management business without even giving them the benefit of being employees is not acceptable.
Door-to-door sales are very hard to do. Cold-calling people in a community to ask for a place to stay is even more difficult and potentially dangerous.
If the Southwestern Company is going to bring students from overseas, they need to make sure that their basic needs are met and not just in Tennessee but in every placed community. It is our opinion that Southwestern is also using Americans who, out of the goodness of their hearts, take in these students to keep them safe. That is double exploitation. It is disgusting to think that an American business association could stoop so low as this effort seems to be.
We have been previously involved in exchange programs. It upset us greatly to hear that these students were told that it would be a great character-building experience for them to go into a community and knock on doors asking for lodging. The Southwestern Company is making money as a result of these students' work, and Southwestern is also using the people who host them. Southwestern has the moral responsibility to find safe housing prior to their arrival in any community. As consumers we don't think we should support or purchase products from such a company.
We are appalled at what one company can do to harm innocent young lives and hurt the American image abroad.
what's more disturbing is a company called southwestern company expect students both American and foreign to go into places far from home and ask strangers to give them place to sleep at nights and pay for their living expenses.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwestern_Company
these MLM companies donate to the republican party and are members and have ties to right wing lobby groups.
http://southwesterncompanytruth.com/
Southwestern Company's Negative Impact
June 26, 2007
Southwestern Company's negative impact
http://southwesterncompanytruth.com/Testimony_062607.html
This past Saturday my wife and I were shocked when we found a young woman walking around Elmhurst looking for a place to sleep. I am very sympathetic to the homeless and this young woman had an added factor that made her case even more distressing. She and two other young people were dropped off in Elmhurst and told that they had to find their own shelter. Then the circumstances began to come to light.
They are Bulgarian students on J-1 visas, which allow them to work in the U.S. for four months in the summer. College students like them come to the U.S. to sell the products of the Southwestern Company.
When these students find a family who is willing to host them, they give the family a sheet that clearly states that the students are expected to work an 80-hour, six-day week. Sundays are reserved for group meetings. The students have no cars or means of transportation. They have little money. Yet the three Elmhurst salespersons are expected to cover the entire town door to door. We know that similar efforts are also being made in surrounding communities
The company protects itself by making sure that each student is registered as an "independent contractor," which absolves the organization from legal responsibilities.
To talk to the students, one gets the impression that they have almost been brainwashed into a cult-like admiration of the business mode they are in. Yet we think that using these international [as well as national] college students as the lowest rung of a multi-layered management business without even giving them the benefit of being employees is not acceptable.
Door-to-door sales are very hard to do. Cold-calling people in a community to ask for a place to stay is even more difficult and potentially dangerous.
If the Southwestern Company is going to bring students from overseas, they need to make sure that their basic needs are met and not just in Tennessee but in every placed community. It is our opinion that Southwestern is also using Americans who, out of the goodness of their hearts, take in these students to keep them safe. That is double exploitation. It is disgusting to think that an American business association could stoop so low as this effort seems to be.
We have been previously involved in exchange programs. It upset us greatly to hear that these students were told that it would be a great character-building experience for them to go into a community and knock on doors asking for lodging. The Southwestern Company is making money as a result of these students' work, and Southwestern is also using the people who host them. Southwestern has the moral responsibility to find safe housing prior to their arrival in any community. As consumers we don't think we should support or purchase products from such a company.
We are appalled at what one company can do to harm innocent young lives and hurt the American image abroad.
