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Being flown to bizarro job interviews

Dateline: aughts & teens. The market research industry is a pseudo-science which I'll tackle separately here someday in thrilling detail. MR is filled with washouts from other legit industries who looked around & realized they could make a decent living simply being punctual & polite. There are also legit smart folks in MR, I met a handful. They & I were smart enough to slurp up the gravy train. Which I did, for 20 years. Let's focus.   Ann Arbor, MI.   Flown there twice, 5 years apart. Multiple MR sales ppl I know have interviewed here or been asked to. Must have hard time hiring or keeping them. We share similar stories of our visits. This unique shop is home of the spectacularly annoying popup surveys all over the webs. They claim all sorts of perks with their surveys: customer loyalty, competitor threats, yadda yadda. My 1st visit went well enough to talk about working there, the pay package (it sucked) etc. But here's the...

Toxic workplace hall of shame: Gantz-Wiley research firm

Part 1 of 4: Winston-Salem, NC. Tobacco lofts, jazz history & verbal abuse

Part 2 of 4: Winston-Salem, NC. Hot dogs, random rentals & the project from hell

Part 3 of 4: Winston-Salem, North Carolina. My own place = calling 911 twice

Part 4 of 4: Winston-Salem, NC. 1 year with God. More verbal abuse!