Does Vector Marketing reward their employees for recommending people to hire or something?

[Alexandra]

Hi,

I received a phone call from a local cell phone number yesterday. On the other end was a bubbly, young teenage-sounding girl, telling me that an ex-classmate I graduated with a year ago recommended me to work at her new job, claiming that I "would like the extra money". I told her to call back later because I had just woken up and wasn't prepared to discuss it at the moment.

I messaged my ex-classmate on Facebook (who is NOT my Facebook friend, and has no contact with me whatsoever, but somehow got my phone number), telling her that I got a phone call vaguely telling me I was recommended and I had no idea who the person was or what the job was. She then told me that she just got a job at Vector Marketing selling knives, and some spiel about how it's a great opportunity and so forth.

I've already been looking up Vector online and read mixed opinions about the company and nothing but arguments back and forth, so I'm not looking for comments like "IT'S A SCAM BECAUSE ______" or "IT'S NOT A SCAM BEACUSE _____". I want to know why she would even bother recommending me, because I haven't spoken to her in over a year, and I don't even know what possessed to her recommend me, unless she just named off a bunch of people she knew from high school that still lived in the area.

I'm not interested in that kind of job, so I'm not dealing with them, but I was curious as to if they demanded employees to recruit new people, or if they were rewarded for it, etc. etc.

If you absolutely have to share your experience with Vector, please do, but it's not going to influence me to accept their phone calls and actually work for them. That's just not the kind of thing I'm into, whether you're promised a lot of money or not.

Thanks in advance.

[Ed Atun]

None of the Vector (Cutco) materials mention "referral" fees paid to employees. But they probably do ask for the names of potential employees. So your call was from a telemarketer for the company who was not getting a referral fee. She was getting a paycheck for calling a "lead".

There might be a new "lead-generating" reward for employees that is not advertised.