FineLine Marketing is a Pyramid Scheme

Stay away from Fineline and Integra Solutions. Their main shtick is really pushing for you to subscribe to the dream you COULD make a lot of money. Don’t let them use that against you.

I applied to a listing for $24 an hour. That’s how they find the money motivated people. Only for them to lowball in the second round interview that it’s $16.66 and commissions. They also have you sign an arbitration agreement when you’re hired on and automatically enroll you into their retirement fund. With how much turnover they have, they’re the only ones who benefit from it.

“Mentors” think to force you to build tough skin to rejection, you just have to figure that out yourself. They preach about working hard but when it’s their turn to work hard to support you, they disappear and don’t show up. The team leads are all in a group chat together to talk badly about their reps while telling their reps not to talk about them. What comes around, goes around.

IF you somehow make it up and promote to a team leader, you’ll actually start to get to manager training. They teach you the compliment sandwich to talk to your reps (compliment, criticism, compliment) which is an outdated and ineffective way to build your team. The most practical things they teach is payroll and that’s it. Forget paid training. They expect you to pay for parking to go to unpaid two hour meetings. During those meetings you basically cheer and create competition with each other like it’s high school. The work culture emphasizes “accountability” but it’s just doing punishments for things you do wrong. 10 jumping jacks if you yawn, 10 push ups if you drop something, if you don’t meet your goals you either buy doughnuts for the office or eat a spoonful of baby food. They teach you about of abbreviations like SWSWSWSW which doesn’t make any sense. “Some will, some won’t, so what, someone’s waiting.” How about teaching real critical thinking instead of turning to chat gbt for these cheerleader chants?

The Tacoma office itself is where you start your morning from those unpaid morning meetings. Depending what campaign you’re in, you’ll either be sent to Costco or Lowe’s. The travel also comes out of your pocket so ideally have a fuel efficient car. You can go as far as Gig Harbor, Tukwila, and Olympia. And no they don’t pay the toll fee for you. Costco people are the AT&T reps and the Leaf Filter people are in Lowe’s.

Their work hangouts is either kickball by the star center on the weekends in a locked area or whatever your team lead plans. You essentially spend all your time with them. Promoting friendliness to keep you there just so the people at the top can make money off of you.

TLDR: Bad mentorship, unpaid commute and training, and emotionally manipulative work culture. You pay to keep this job until you get high enough to make passive income off of people you promote out. If that’s not a pyramid scheme, I don’t know what is.