Pyramid schemes are the future, get involved!teqrevisited said:Yes. Just so that they can't advertise said jobs as retail positions and then when you read the description of the role it's essentially you agreeing to buy things from them to sell for yourself.
That was my first thought too. I almost never get sales people, but get Jehovah's witnesses fairly often. It's a little irritating when I work lates sometimes and then get a knock on the door early. I assume it's a package (and those delivery men don't hang about) so rush out of bed and down the stairs in a state of undress to answer the door to someone who wants to have a conversation whilst I'm freezing my nipples off.Aris Khandr said:I'd be in complete agreement with making both practices illegal. Yeah, it would suck for the people who are employed to do those things, but how many people are really employed going door-to-door anymore? It is mostly people out peddling their religion that I encounter, and I'm fine with living without that. The only people I want turning up on my doorstep are people with food for me, and I call them first.
Nah, it's not illegal here, I just think it hasn't proven to be a profitable way to sell things outside clubs and scouts doing the chocolate and cookie thing.Voulan said:I think it actually is in New Zealand. Or at least they're so rare that no one encounters them, or they're not an actual job role here.
nope, definitely not.. however on a side note we should probably just make everything illegal, so we can start from scratch because.. well the world is clearly sub-optimal, and it's gratingJoJo said:Are there any benefits to unsolicited marketing which I'm missing?
Give them a grace period then. Legislation doesn't have to make changes "tomorrow". It can easily say "Effective now, you have five years to adapt your strategies because this is going to be illegal."Lilani said:I'm afraid it doesn't work that way. These businesses would have to come up with a plan for how to market in the future, which would take time.
Well, I create graphics for TV ads and digital signage for a chain of retail stores, so perhaps I'm a bit biased on the subject Working in marketing I know that it's only the higher-ups who actually want to manipulate people into buying stuff they may not need, and everybody else is just concerned with making stuff that looks good and produces numbers which make the higher-ups happy. If not for the pressure of numbers, they'd rather just go out and shoot pretty footage and have that put on TV.Vegosiux said:And that's all I'm going to say, the concept of advertising itself is repulsive to me and to go in detail would likely just result in a rant that nobody could relate to, so...