AIL Partners Stole Over 4 Hours of My Life

American Income Life also known as AIL Partners stole at least 4 hours of my life that I want back, so I am targeting them here to get reparations for my suffering because by publishing my story here I know that it has the potential to generate enough advertising revenue to make up for my loss by warning other people about this company. A company that has a history of replying to cover letters intended for different companies altogether to lure job seekers into a trap that turns out to be a sales pitch disguised as a group interview after which they let you know that you've made the cut and have a job waiting for you upon completion of a training course that you must pay them to take.

In the latter half of 2008 I was unemployed like most people with no work experience who graduated in June of that year, so I divided my time between entrepreneurial web development and job hunting. As part of my job hunt I applied for a management trainee position that I found on Craigslist in a supply chain role at a local company because I had excelled in supply chain management my senior year. Unfortunately I accidentally sent my cover letter and resume to AIL Partners somehow. Despite clearly starting my cover letter with "Dear Biomat USA" Dorene Kirkingburg replied to my letter by setting up an interview with their Regional Hiring Manager Michael Mandella at a building in Tigard right next to the freeway.

I walked into the interview thinking that it was for the management trainee job that I had applied for and that AIL was probably a parent company of Biomat because that would explain being told to dress professionally for an interview with the Regional Hiring Manager. Instead I found myself trapped in a board room with other "applicants" listening to some douche bag talk about how easy and great it is to make money selling insurance to union workers families. Then he bombarded us with seemingly endless videos full of cheesy testimonials full of young successful looking people who of course were raving about how great it was to sell insurance for AIL Partners. Hours and hours went by with nothing more than video testimonials and that douche bag speaking. I wanted to leave so bad, but the longer it lasted the more I thought that it could not possibly go on any longer. Eventually I knew the end was near when douche bag told us that our ticket to success was completing a short training course that would teach us everything we would need to know in order to sell their insurance for just $600 or something like that.

I left the interview by telling them as politely as I could that I was not interested in selling their insurance. Still they called me and emailed me multiple times trying to set up a final interview because I was exactly the type of candidate they were looking for. Eventually I rejected their advances enough that they left me alone.

DO NOT APPLY FOR A JOB WITH AIL PARTNERS INTENTIONALLY OR BY ACCIDENT!

American Income Life is nothing more than a scam targeting job seekers in a bad economy to sell a class and hopefully some insurance. They care so little about who they "hire" that they will accept applications intended for jobs at other companies and hound people not interested in working for them. The only real opportunities for success at AIL Partners is for the few who are good enough salesmen to recruit morons for their classes.

Footnote:

Coincidentally this incident helped convince me to start the No Limit List project because when I initially conceived the project I stumbled upon an ad of theirs while analyzing Craigslist. I thought about flagging the ad, but didn't knowing full well that they would just re-post it later. I also wanted to make a comment really bad to warn people what they were in for, but couldn't because Criagslist doesn't allow comments. Now No Limit List allows comments for all posts so that scams such as American Income Life can be called out on site for potential consumers to see.