Mr. Grossman called me too -- for Team Leader. I knew I didn't want to go, but he was pressuring me on the phone so I said yes (always intending to back out last minute). Oh well! I'm not going to appear, and he can just see what he thinks about that. I'm guessing he won't be surprised.

Primerica is a legitimate company with suspicious tactics. I do not want my conscience to be tainted with guilt for similarly pressuring people to be recruited to something I do not believe in -- just to support myself? No thanks. I want a job where people can respect me and not the other way around.

Needless to say, my first reaction when I heard that this Mr. Grossman was from Primerica was disgust.

Uggnh!!!! A Primerica branch occupied the offices directly above where I work for several years (they finally moved out last fall, thank OG!). High pressure, multi-level marketing sales of iffy financial services was their thing.

Viewed from the outside, it looked like a real meat-grinder, and I rarely saw the same faces returning year after year. Those who did were inevitably in-your-face sales types with attitudes that oozed insincerity. We have limited parking for our building and they regularly had recruitment drives that would flood the lot with their marks' cars which would cause absolute chaos and no small amount of fury when multiple idiots would double or even triple park their rusted out vehicles. The foot stomping chants and cheers as the cretins rallied around the cause of bilking their 'clients' just compounded the headaches (did I mention that they were directly above my office)?

The building manager hated their guts and would regularly complain about building doors being left unlocked overnight and the disgusting condition of the upstairs bathroom. After about the sixth time they clogged the toilet and flooded the bathroom he decided to rip out the toilet paper dispenser altogether and replaced it with those dispensers that distribute really thin tissues that are so low-grade you can still see chunks of wood in them. Never piss off a building manager.

I'll give them credit for one thing though, they were smart enough not to try to hard sell any of the other tenants. That would have crossed a major line would likely have ended up with them getting booted from the premises. The only reason the owner put up with them in the first place was the rent they were paying. Of course, that only gave the weasels a monumental sense of entitlement to add to their already inflated egos.

Phew...did I mention that I'm really, really, really, happy that they're gone?

The number associated with this address is 4000 Steeles Avenue West in Woodbridge, Ontario, Canada which is just north of the city of Toronto.  The local police there would be the Ontario Provincial Police -http://www.opp.ca/ecms/index.php?id=285

I received a call from this number...he knew too much private information, said he was from Primerica, talked very fast and was high pressure. Told me he got info from the Bay, Zellers, Wallmart, etc. There is no way that the Bay, or others would ever release private information.

Awesome Michael - thank you.  I went in for the interview, and it was one of the best experiences I have ever had.  What a professional team - what an awesome company - nice guy too!

Mr. Anchetta, I just received your email (attached below). I take it you decline my offer to explain your side of the story and prefer to blackmail...

Received via feedback:
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"We have about 45 agents that will be continuosly posting information about the validity of WhoCallsMe on anti-WhoCallsMe forums.  I've already asked numberous times for you to remove information that is invalid - from individuals who we haven't contacted.  This is not a large request - you have been daily removing my posts and some Pro-Primerica posts from this page.  By mid week we will start our aggressive campaign to challenge the validity of WhoCallsMe.  We have a lot of information, and have accumulated over the past 2 weeks phone numbers of individuals from your team.  Again - ALL I'M ASKING FOR IS FOR POSTS FROM PEOPLE THAT WE DID NOT CALL TO BE REMOVED.  We want nothing else.  

Thank You for your understanding
Ray Anchetta"
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You will be challenging the validity of WhoCallsMe? This is not Britannica, if you have not noticed, it's a USER SUPPLIED reverse phone number lookup database. There's bound to be discrepancies and incorrect information. It's up to the end user of that information to make conclusions based on the available data.

You will be challenging the anonymous posters? If yes, why not here? Please, again, tell us why the posters are wrong? We do want to hear your side of the story. I am not against you, Mr. Anchetta, even though you are making it difficult for me to stay objective.

Also, I NEVER removed Pro-Primerica posts from this page. I removed spam, which included positive AND negative comments.