Conference 7.286::digital

    you should find out if your manager refered you to them.

    Right.  You could return the favor.

    Why don't you post his name and number. Better yet send it to me E-mail
    to reduce the stampede....

    RE: .2
    
    >Right.  You could return the favor.
    
    This reminds me of a cartoon I saw at a recent animation festival.
    
    A worker really liked his job and his coworkers, but had a real problem
    boss.  He tried everything he could think of, even looked at other
    jobs.  Then he got the bright idea of giving his boss' name to a
    headhunter and lo and behold -- it worked!  The boss left and everybody
    lived happily ever after.
    

    When you fill out those response forms to get your free subscriptions
    to Electronic News, EDN, etc., don't put down your real phone
    number!!!!
    FYI,
    Matt

    
    (...GMA-area headhunters' phone lines have been busy all morning...)
    

    
    Two weeks ago my wife got a call at 3:30pm from an insurance and
    investments company.  The guy said "We want to offer Gil a management
    position in our company".  What a teaser!  She also said the guy was
    really patronizing to her...When she said "May I take a message?" he
    said "Yes you may, do you have a pencil?", like she was a two year old.
    
    I blew it off until the following week, when I received a call from the
    "District Manager".  I asked what this job was all about, and he said
    "We educate people about financial instruments".  Uh-huh, I said, and
    how are your staff compensated, and how many individuals would report
    to this "management position".  At that point he said "I really don;t
    have the time to talk to you right now, I'll let our local manager get
    in touch with you". (He called *ME* and he didn't have the time to
    talk?)  He asked if I was interested in coming in to
    interview and I said "Well, I do have a few more questions."  At which
    time he said, "Well if you know of anybody else who might be interested
    in making $50,000 and up, please have them call us." And he hung up.
    
    BTW, The company was Primerica.
    

I got the same pitch from Primamerica a week ago.
When I asked how they got my name, he admitted that they got it out of the 
Manchester NH Onion Leader's "Good news" section.  
Sounds like they had a blurb about my son being born in the paper.
That looks like some real sensible screening of qualified candidates. :- )

Joerg

    ref 2044.8
    >Manchester NH Onion Leader's "Good news" section.
    
    I swear this is first time I know that there are leaders for onions too,
    and I've living in NH for 2 years and no one told me about this?

    what does an onion leader do any way?
    
    sorry you don't have to answer this, since it has nothing to do with
    DEC way of life, I was just curious why would an onion want a leader
    for?

    thank you,
    /Nasser
    Yes, I spelled checked

    The paper is called the Union Leader.  It has many nicknames, typically
    depending on how much you lean politically......  Useless Leader is
    often heard around my area.  This is the first time I've heard it
    called Onion Leader.
    
    -- dg

    The Amway of the investment business?
    

    It's called Primerica   ...there's no "A" in the middle.
    
    They're some kind of insurance and investments or financial planning
    firm.  Or one that educates about financial instruments....depending
    upon whom you are talking to.It sounded like they were trying to
    recruit salespeople that they would run on a comission basis, calling
    them all 'managers' to entice them in.  Very high pressure sales.  Of
    course, I could be wrong and may have just passed up the opportunity of
    a lifetime!  
    
    
    
    

    
    Formerly known as x. x. Williams (forgot the initials),
    and yes, its very much like Amway.  I attended an Amway rally
    once in the same hotel as a _ _ Williams rally.  We battled verbally
    in the elevators over which was the better money maker.  Amway
    has hundreds of products with multiple layers of profit built into
    the price, _ _ Williams had insurance, same built in profit structure.
    
    There was a book on the founder.  Interesting reading.  A 60 minutes
    on them since Primerica bought them would be illuminating.
    

> When I asked how they got my name, he admitted that they got it out of the 
> Manchester NH Onion Leader's "Good news" section.  
> Sounds like they had a blurb about my son being born in the paper.

        I hope you learned your lesson.  When the hospital asks if you
        want a birth announced in the paper, just say `NO'.  The only
        people who read those announcements are bored telemarketers who
        want to call and wake up your child and wife.  We said `no' for
        our second son and we didn't have the surge of telemarketing
        calls that we had after our first son was announce in the paper.

        					B.J.
        I spelled Czech

    
    Enough already!
    
    What do we know of GOOD headhunters?
    
    JN

    For you folks in Mass. A REAL headhunter is looking for two Marketing
    Managers/Consultants for EMC in Hoptkington (SP?) Mass.
    
    A. Greenstein $ Co. (617)769-4966, Arleen Greenstein called my
    directly. I've no interest in leaving Colorado so declined. A colleague
    gave her my name.
    
    MC