'500 numbers to cold calls, changed work hours': Man saves himself from 'start-up scam', quits after first day

Any employee's worst nightmare would be to end up in a job that promises something else and delivers something entirely different. Perhaps this is what the definition of a scam is. An anonymous digital marketer on Reddit shared a story time about how he saved himself from a "start-up scam." Here's what happened on the first day of the job that made me instantly quit.?

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Start-up scam. I got saved.
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An anonymous Reddit user, @bloohers_media, shares how he got trapped into a 'start-up scam', but luckily saved himself. The user writes, "So i joined a digital marketing company on 7th oct and worked only for 1 day and called the HR next day to tell her that I'm not coming anymore [sic]."

On the first day of the job, he was asked to make 500 cold calls and asked him to change his work hours from "14:00 - 23:00 to 7 pm to 4 am."?

The man adds, "I regretted after leaving that job coz i wanted to have a corporate experience and i was not getting job easily, tho, i was earning and working as freelancer [sic]."

The manager also quit after 1 month?

Further in the post, the man informs that his manager at the job also quit in just one month because the company held back his salary. "After more than a month i got a call from, my one day TL, he congratulated me for leaving the job on very first day. When i asked why, he said " bro they didn't give me my salary bcoz i couldn't achieve the target of $1500 in 30 days" it was his first month too [sic]."

Somehow the man got to know that "the agenda of that new startup was to get work done for 1 month and torture employees so that they resign and they don't need to pay them."?

People on the internet were left angry?

Many people on the internet were left angry and emphasised that there should be better and stricter "labour laws." Here's what people wrote in the comments.?

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