Solomon Page Experience

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  • robotron3k

    A friend of mine forwarded me an email about a recruiter looking for a Spanish speaking AD. So I wasn't too busy so I called the woman and sent her some work and we sent up a time to go to her company http://www.solomonpage.com/ and meet her. It was interesting because when I spoke spanish to her on the phone she told me she didn't understand a word/. I thought that was strange....

    So a couple of hours ago I head to midtown NY and go to their office on Madison Ave, I get to their floor and walk into the main glass doors and ask for Rochelle R. who I'm suppose to speak to. All the furniture is new and clean and there is a big 6x8 foot gold sign that reads "Solomon Page" behind the receptionist desk. She tells me to go out the hall and take a left and the woman is in that office, so I leave and take a left down the hall as she tells me and there is another identical receptionist desk, with new furniture, everything clean and the same 6x8 foot gold sign behind the receiption as well. I noticed there were all kinds of notes on the receiptionists desk of people and appointments that were signing in all day and everything looked rather odd and just to organized for it to be any kind of real office.

    The woman hands be a clipboard with all kinds of typical employment forms to fill out and I go back and sit down and notice two other obvious Latino creative types filling out their application forms.

    It was all just kind of strange, when I took a look at the forms they all look like they had been copied off of a very cheap black and white copy machine, some sides were blank, and everything looked like it had been done cheaply and in a hurry. I got suspicious....

    Right then and there I decided something was strange and I wasn't about to give them all my personal information, SS#, tax info, employment history, etc., etc., without knowing who this company was and who the people running it were. So I got up, told the girl no thatnks and walked back out into the hallway to the elevators.

    As I step back out into the hall I look down the other end of the hall and see yet another identical receiptionist at the other end of that hall with the same desk and identical gold Solomon Page signage as well!! things were getting even stranger....!!! 3 receiptionist all within 60 feet from each other!!!?? looks like they wanted to cover up for anything(!?) so they took over the entire floor.... hmmmm....

    So quickly I push any button to get on the elevator, but the only one that came up was the service elevator with some little puerto rican kid who worked in maintenance was on there, he says come in and he'll take me down. As soon as the doors close I told him that company that company Solomon Page was creepy. He turns to me and says, "believe me, you ain't the only one who notices how strange they are. I see how they come in and out everyday, lot's of people have noticed..."

    So I'm not sure what kind of organization, data mining, information seeking company they are but if you are looking for a job and might be desperate enough to get sucked into a company that you've never heard of, be careful you give away your personal info without noticing that it might be used for purposes that it wasn't intended for.

    I went back to the Solomon Page website and noticed their Disclosure policy and it reads as if they can own any of your info and they can do anything they want with it if you engage them in any way. http://www.solomonpage.com/about… that's pretty scary... I think I was lucky today not to have fallen for what they wanted to get from me...

    the lesson of the day, don't be afraid to walk out the door if things ain't right

  • designbot0

    Wow dude, strange.

    I've had some strange things happen with job interviews, but never like this.

    • I feel kinda bad I didn't tell those other chumps that were filling out their paperwork... like I left them to die.robotron3k
    • ahh well, maybe they were desperate.designbot
  • dajaniel0

    That is pretty creepy - I guess scammers will now go to all lengths to get details now that they realise that spam/phishing doesn't work so well...?

    Good of you to get out - I'd probably be so full of nervous energy I'd have given all my details.

  • designbot0

    From their site:
    "We typically deliver full slates of candidates within a three to six week time frame and have measurable results substantially sooner."

    The wording on this is strange. Sounds like they have an assembly-line approach to finding potential employees for their clients. Headhunters are annoying, you practically can't apply for any job these days without going through one first. Maybe it's so lucrative that you have all types of shady companies starting up to "get a piece of the pie"

  • robotron3k0

    I think they could be doing all sorts of metrics on people looking for work through all channels, like medicine, accounting, finance, banking, advertising, etc. They basically can get millions of dollars in info for years from certain populations and via market demands.

    But can you imagine, you walk into a "nice" office and someone hands you a clipboard and people automatically expect that the info you fill out will be secure. that's f'd up people take advantage of people's desperate-ness...

    thats why we are called sheep people (sheeple)...

  • lazerbass0

    awsome, anyone what to help me start up an operation like this ? email me