An interview that led to questions

Today, I went on an interview.
Safe to say, it wasn't an interview that will lead to me ending this blog anytime soon.
First bad sign was the name of the company: Momentum, Inc. Innocuous enough, and it also conveniently sounds like it could be about absolutely anything but really about nothing.
Running that name through a Google search was the second bad sign. Lots of companies called Momentum came up, but none of them in Sacramento. None of them close to Sacramento, actually.
When I called to arrange an interview time, I had to inquire: What do you people do?
"Oh, we're a marketing and outreach company!" the perky young woman on the other end replied. From her voice, I suspected she was quite cute, and I was quite right.
You might have noticed, "marketing and outreach company" doesn't really tell you much either. I noticed that too.
So I went on the interview. First thing, I had to fill out a questionnaire, even though I'd given them my resume. Very odd. And all the questions on the questionnaire more or less would've been answered by the resume.
Next, I sat in a little interview area, in my suit. Other people sat in the interview area, not in suits. I take that back -- the ones in suits, mostly, were quite a bit older to me, and had very sad eyes.
From the conversation between some other people there who were on their second interview -- you may be interested to know, these people were definitely not in suits -- I learned the fascinating sales strategy that awaited me at Momentum:
1) Go to Home Depot, and look for people shopping. Approach them and ask about whether they'd like to buy cabinetry. Getting two to four names -- out of 120 inquiries -- was considered a good success rate.
Let me repeat that step: Go to Home Depot, go inside the store, and try to sell cabinets, and apparently this is okay with Home Depot.
Effing cabinets. In a time when a great many people would buy cabinets only if they could sleep in them. Fascinating.
2) Apparently, you start by selling, and then eventually you recruit other people to sell. You move up the pyramid the more you sell. A pyramid....hmmm....
Pretty much, that was it. The people who'd been on a previous interview said they'd gone with a salesperson on a second interview, to see what it was about. "I got to go to Jack in the Box!" one of them said.
As far as they could tell, the point of the second interview was to extensively buss the backside of the salesperson, so that he might recommend you over someone else for an exciting effing cabinetry sales job.
It was also explained to me that you could be making as much as $900 a paycheck. Great, in six months I could be making what I make now on unemployment. How enticing.
Needless to say, the interview itself was not all that encouraging. Had someone pulled out a picture of King Tut and said, "We endeavor to get you to the top of his house," I would've been little surprised.
In the end, my sentiments match those of a young man who came from the interview area while we were sitting waiting (in our suits or not suits).
He looked at us, then made a thumbs-down gesture. "TBBBBBTTTTT!!!" he commented.
Indeed.