Original sentence: Salespeople, most of them college students and recent high school graduates, sell the knives in customers' homes.Their flyers advertising high-paying "student work" are a common sight on many college campuses in the United States and Canada.Vector Marketing is the sales arm of Alcas Corporation, the Olean, New York-based company that makes Cutco knives.Vector's recruitment materials have not always been clear about the nature of the work
Edited sentence: Independent contractors are required to attend meetings, "check in" with their central office, and attend hours of training for no pay.Salespeople, most of them naive college students and recent high school graduates, sell the knives in "customers'" homes, usually friends and family.Still they deny the practice of telemarketing, which is the core of there "sales practices".Their flyers advertising high-paying "student work" are misleading yet a common sight on many college campuses in the United States and Canada.They are later told that they will have to pay around $80 for their display knife set.This initial orientation is followed by 3 straight days of unpaid training, during which each independent contractor is told to write down literally every name they can think of.This list is then filtered down to include only the target market, and then the independent contracters are pressured to make sales calls to every person on the list.Those wishing to leave the company after learning of their business practices are constantly referred to as "lazy".Upon being "selected" by Vector Marketing (100% of applicants are recruited), Each applicant is told that he/she should be a receptionist.Vector Marketing is the dishonest sales arm of Alcas Corporation, the Olean, New York-based company that makes Cutco knives.Vector's recruitment materials are notoriously misleading about the nature of the work