Controversy
Many allegations have been leveled by former employees and employees-in-training with DC Advertising that the company engages in consistent misrepresentation of what kind of a business it really is. Possibly the most flagrant example of this is the "second interview", in which the prospective job candidate is told that he or she will be job-shadowing a current employee of the company for the purposes of answering the candidate's questions and/or meeting clients . These promises turn out to be technically accurate, although not in the way that the potential employee envisions based on what they are told in the first interview. In reality, the second interview consists of an employee of DC Advertising taking the potential job-seeker to a residential neighborhood in order to perform door-to-door sales . The second interview has been reported to last over 10 hours in some cases .
The second interview reveals much about the business practices of DC Advertising; namely that the company is merely a pyramid scheme and engages in multi-level marketing. Seemingly, the company 's recruiting practices revolve around getting unsuspecting job seekers to participate in the second interview, or the bottom rung of the pyramid, which has them selling products on a commission basis only so that those further up the pyramid can receive larger profit.
As of May 2007, Derek Colantonio has been reported to be currently running this pyramid scheme in Atlanta, Georgia with Justin Cobb and Jack Bertok. The company was recently changed to Vantage Marketing International as it was recently titled IPG & Associates. The time of the name change happened simultaneously with the relocation to a new office building in a different area of Atlanta.
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