The shady business man.

So I was working yesterday minding my own business when a customer came in. He was asking questions about certain toys and I answered all of his questions with ease. (like always) He then tells me I am a great salesman (surprise surprise) and he then initiates a conversation with me. He asked me what I am doing with my life and about my retail experience. He then smiles and says you know I own a business development firm and we are looking for bright young minds like yourself. I was all like omg no way! He then says would you be interested in talking to me more tomorrow? I say sure why not. He gives me his business card and tells me to meet him at the barnes and noble at the mall at two. I ask him before he leaves exactly what he does and he says we work with fortune 500 companies and small business owners attract customers and expand their business.

By looking at his business card some red flags already popped up. Instead of his full name he has his nickname on the card. On top of that the address listed is his home address. I looked up the business and the only thing I could find out about the company was this. The awesome guys at ilictronix said that he was probably buffalo bill and I would get murdered. I decided that I was bored enough, so I decided to meet with him.

So I meet him at the cafe section and we shake hands, only his handshake was like a dead fish, limp, cold and wet.

He then asks what I do in my free time. I couldn't tell him the truth because that would just be too sad so I told him I was into extreme sports like skydiving and rock climbing. Impressed he said you sound like a goal oriented person. Jokingly I said of course but does anyone say that they aren't? He doesn't laugh; instead he just stares at me. He then says well how would you like to make some extra money? I said of course I do! He then pulls up this awful PowerPoint and shows me pictures of nice houses and cars and says what would you buy if everything here costs 1$. I responded by saying well I don't think we would have nice cars and houses if they all cost 1$ no one would take the time to make them because they have no value. He then says "Adam we don't have room for cynics in this business" I apologized and asked him to continue.

He then says how would you like to make x amount of dollars? (I forget the exact number he told me) I said well that would be great but I'm a little curious about the steps to get there. He fires back with a "Adam we also don't need cynics in our company either" I apologized and asked him to continue. He promised me that by the time he was done I would have no other questions and that it was rude of me to ask anything to begin with. I said "fine show me what you have"

For the next hour he talked to me about e-commerce and how it works, and how its different from brick and mortar stores. He then tells me all the big businesses that his company works with and how if he buys enough product from these places he gets paid some money. He then switches gears and talks about how if I pay 170 I can be certified by his company and start businesses and help businesses on my own and I will be paid more money.

He was a master of talking for a long time without talking about anything at all.

After his whole presentation was up he said ok what did you think? And I said "honestly man there no real business plan here, this is like poorly executed ponzi scheme. you talked about e-commerce which had nothing to do with anything and then switched between being a group of consumers and door to door salesman. I'm I just don't understand what you do when you say you start and help businesses"

With ice cold eyes he stares at me and says "you know if you don't get what we do after all of this then your not smart enough to 1) understand how our business works 2) understand how the economy or any business works. We don't want someone like you with us." He then slams his laptop down on the table gives me the middle finger and says "f*&# you" and walks away.

At this time all the people at the cafe started to applaud me and one lady says "Its refreshing to see people not be swayed by that, I'm proud of you" she then bought me a coffee.

Sitting here now I still have no idea what he was even trying to sell me.

UPDATE: I remember one of the coporations this company is under and the name of it is Alticor...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ot31XhgE_XE