MEE – The Michael Edwards Experience

So I was hustling to the LRT when I saw some people putting up summer work posters. Curious, I looked at the next one down the wall… it was for Vector Marketing. I ripped that fucker down and stuffed it in a trash bin. Since then I have probably cleaned about 5 of their posters, but I’ve already seen several with the phone numbers ripped off.

Maybe you think I’m kind of crazy for ripping these posters down, but the truth is Vector Marketing exploits students and any other naive worker they can get their paws on. See this summary from 2002 and this recent story.

These are not a couple of people who had a bad run, I personally know two people who went through this and all they had to show for it at the end of the summer is an expensive set of knives (damned fine knives, but students need money, check tuition increases). The behaviour of supervisors and the entire workplace environment leaves a sickening taste in my mouth.

I consider it a public service to stymie any attempt by these people to rope more workers in. If only for the sake of other students, please warn your friends and do your part to save a student from Vector.

(FYI, I am 100% sure I read that a major students union, or students union alliance denounced Vector Marketing, however I cannot seem to find this via google… if you remember the news item, please forward it to me. I can’t really narrow the date range down.. sometime between 2002 and 2005 I think)

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