Interview or Sales Pitch?

How to tell when your job interview is really a sales pitch, in 12 steps:
1- Without asking for a copy of your resume, a company representative schedules an interview.
2- The business’ lobby is decorated with self-empowerment posters reminding you that success is purely in your hands.
3- A girl arrives for her interview dressed in a t-shirt and jeans and is soon escorted to the back room for her interview.
4- Your interviewer is dressed in an olive green suit with the top button of his shirt unbuttoned.
5- The interviewer leads you to a large meeting room with six or more collapsible wooden tables (any number of collapsible wooden tables really) where others are being interviewed simultaneously, including that girl in the t-shirt and jeans.
6- Instead of telling the interviewer about you, he begins it by describing how much money the company has to award its “independent representatives.”
7- He uses the title “independent representative.”
8- He reminds you how bad the job market is, saying, “There aren’t a lot of people callin’ back.”
9- When asked for a description of an “independent representative’s” work you are only given vagaries, e.g. “financial educator,” and the interviewer insists you wait for the multimedia presentation.
10- There is a multimedia presentation.
11- After finally coming to the conclusion you’re being hustled –although this should have happened at about Step 1- and they’re going to ask for some of your money, to cover the cost of training material and so they know you’re serious. After deciding to leave they encourage you to stay “just to see what the company has to offer.”
12- When you reject the offer to “see what the company has to offer” you are given a stern look but told to see one more person on your way out.

This list was compiled after visiting a Primerica office in Burbank, Ca.
The job was declined and parking was $6.