Years ago a buddy of mine worked for fjd marketing. He was a kid in high school at the time and managed to sell enough trial newspaper subscriptions to win a couple trips to Disney World. I was older so I investigated a position with the company as a driver.

Turns out they'd recruit a bunch of kids (usually from low-income areas) & a driver takes them to some development to run door to door trying to sell newspaper trial subscriptions.

Immediately everything felt terrible about this. You're supposed to entice the kids by saying you'll take them to McDonald's if everybody sells five subscriptions and whoever sells the highest gets fries. I wouldn't even let them out of the car.

I gave them all 10 bucks took them to McDonald's bought them everything they wanted and then told their parents to never ever let them do this again. In particular was a young small girl that could have disappeared in a second & no one would have known where the hell to start looking for her. These companies are terrible.

Years later I went on another interview & the"team" was walking around trying to sell various items they had in a bag to people on the sidewalk.