It’s one of my faves! Nicks has a lot of great poetry in these lyrics.

Thank you. I won't accept the obligatory annual contrarian turkey slander this year.

That was miss Alecia B. Moore

This nightmare fuel

So fam, trust your gut...because in the end I was right: I did stumble into a sort of cult. But it's not the destination that makes the journey, it's the mediocre disappointments we face along the way.

Press send.

Of course, I started drilling with my own questions, trying to pry *anything* of meaning out of this suited sentient facade. As he stumbled his way through scripted responses about training and moving up to the "big money," it all clicked into place: Baby, this a goddamn MLM pyramid scheme. I'm out.

It soon becomes clear that their use of the word "marketing" is a stand-in for sales, and their "products and services"...well, I still don't even know what those are. But what I did learn, as it was reiterated multiple times, they needed people with "good vibes."

As the recruiter begins asking me the usual questions, I realize: I still don't even know what this role is; I've not even seen as much as a job description, but again...curiosity. The conversation then move towards "the second interview is where you learn more about the role." Sure Jan, but go on.

I'm finally called back and led to a corporate cream room with tacky, too-small canvases featuring phrases like HUSTLE & RISE UP, but the star decor was the desk polka-dotted with stickers of Mario Kart, SpongeBob, and others of the like. As if someone gave a child a sticker book & said "have fun."

I arrived to see a half-assed lobby...full of other rolling interviewees. It was filled with the sounds of a nonstop techno playlist, periodically interrupted by yells from a back room of what I can only describe as aggressive affirmations. At this point, I assumed I've walked into a cult situation.