College Sweetheart Neglected, Suffers Serious Health Problems
Received February 24, 2008
I wish I would have found your website before I left to sell books in the summer of 2007. I agree with everything that you said in your testimonial and more. I puked my breakfast up every morning and lost a total of 10 pounds in two weeks. I only weighed 105 lbs. when I left. I couldn't eat in the morning for the rest of the summer, even once I returned home, without puking. Life was hell. But the true reason I left was because of the way I was treated by my student manager. I was date rapped my sophomore year of high school and I never really have dealt with it. I didn't even tell my parents about it until I graduated high school. Well, I had a flashback after speaking to a dad at the door of one of the houses. For some reason talking to that specific dad made me hyperventilate, have a panic attack, and have mental pictures flash into my mind from the date rape. I locked myself into my car for 5 hours. I called my regional manager, no answer and no call back. I called my student manager and told him what was going on and he told me to just get over it and knock on the next door. I then finally broke down and called my mom despite all the warnings to never call home during the day. Well my mom flipped out about what was happening and that no one was trying to calm me down over the phone (other than her) because I have asthma and she didn't want me passing out from not getting enough oxygen. After three hours and my mom calling the corporate offices and threatening to sue did someone on my "team" call me. All they told me was to read something and focus on something else. That was all they said to me. I was finally able to just drive back to headquarters and pack my stuff to head home after 5 hours had passed. I was so scared at that moment. The worst part of it all was that even two and three weeks after I left and was back home my regional and student manager kept calling me and basically treating me as a failure. I was close with one of the students in my group and he noticed I was gone on the Sunday meeting. He called to make sure I was at least safe, but didn't want to know anything else. My student manager called me the next day and ripped me out and said that just because I failed doesn't mean that I need to talk to the other team members and try to make them fail as well just so I would feel better. I still see my old student manager and he acts as if we are best friends. I really don't know what I should do, but I feel like I should warn all the students I see him with.
