The Dark Side of Magazine Crews

okay so this video has been a long time coming because I don't think that I accurately depicted magazine crew from my earlier videos like way back in the day so I'm going to be talking about magazine crew and like the dark side of it and the not so fun aspects of a traveling sales crew and any of my personal friends that I was with on magazine crew any former bosses you guys know that what I'm about to say is true so don't even don't call me don't text me if you're new here hi my name is Jess I'm a in long-term recovery that has in fact been to prison T it's not a flex it's just a fact if you want to follow me on any other social media platform Tik Tok Instagram patreon that's $2 it's only ever going to be $2 all of that is linked down below as well as my Vlog Channel my podcast my Facebook Spotify all of the things without further Ado let's kick this thing [Music] off okay if you don't know my story I worked on a traveling sales company from like 19 to like 22 23 on and off very sporadically it was not something that I was ever going to be a lifer for essentially I used this traveling sales crew to go on the run from parole and charges out of New York and the perfect thing to do not that I'm trying to teach youall how to break the law God that sounds bad um but the perfect thing in my mind back then in my very young teenage and early adult mind was hey uh let's go on the Run and you know travel the country we can make a little bit of money and not go back to jail huh sounded like a good idea and I was introduced to this sales crew they sold magazine subscriptions and over the years you guys have been like wait like magazines like magazines like no dude like ESPN home and gardening Maxim like magazines that you read like an actual magazine and I have told you guys historically that my experience on magazine crew was relatively positive because it was was I didn't experience a lot of the things that a lot of other people did nor did I recognize their really bad tactics in recruiting people and getting people to join and then worse getting people to stay one of the really dark things that magazine Crews do and not just magazine Crews a lot of traveling sales companies do this now they'll sell anything from magazine subscriptions to vacuum cleaners actual cleaner like spray cleaner um meat you know like steak stuff like that so there's companies that travel the country and sell all kinds of [ __ ] and yeah these are the tactics that they use they will go into neighborhoods sometimes college campuses um but historically they will go into lower income neighborhoods and they will recruit people that are 18 to 25 that are struggling financially that want to travel the country and they will recruit them to come onto the crew with all of these promises you know you're getting get to travel the world you're going to get to get the hell out of here and it's going to be so fun you get cash every day and we really have a solid family here and we just have a great time we work hard but we party harder we go to concerts we get tattoos we earn all of this jewelry so that will sell anyone that is struggling financially or you know any you know young adult that wants to travel the country and get the heck out of whatever circumstance they're dealing with um sometimes these people are homeless and they meet them you know holding signs or panhandling or whatever and they'll be like man you don't have to do that you can come with us have a better life the problem with that is once you you know go to these Crews they don't want you to leave they want you to stay there and earn money and uh if you don't stay there then a lot of times they will just abandon you in whatever City that they're at sometimes you'll get a bus Tock get home you know my boss that's something that I will always say I had a really good experience I had a positive experience um my B his name was Josiah and he was great at that he would give you a bus ticket and make sure that you got home however other managers within his camp and other camps would not provide a bus ticket to somebody that wanted to leave um you know I did see that quite a few times and there would always be like this really weird reason as to why like the person that wants to quit pissed off a manager or they did something or um I think a really common lie was oh this person they wanted to quit but they were stealing our people people they wanted to steal our people and leave or they got into a relationship with a team [ __ ] queen [ __ ] explain that a second and they're going to take her they're going to quit but they want her to leave too and then that person would get jumped for that so there was always drama there was always violence and it really just was not what it seemed if you guys have ever seen the movie American honey it's similar to that but there's a lot of inaccuracies there because it's a movie and it's Hollywood let me explain the levels to you guys um when you first get hired you're an agent and that just means that you have not made enough sales to move up in your rank so there's agent and then there's team [ __ ] or team [ __ ] if you're a guy um that means you've made x amount of sales in a onee time period and you've now been promoted it means you're going to make more money stuff like that you're going to be able to you know have more freedom in the hotel and it's just all around better for you your percentages are high higher especially though when you're selling a magazine subscription which one Magazine subscription a 3year to 5year subscription $50 to $75 I have no idea how much it even is now but absolutely ridiculous prices so after team [ __ ] or team C there is queen [ __ ] or kingcock after that you can be promoted to a car Handler which means you will be driving one of the Vans or one of the vehicles and you'll drop kids off kids you'll drop the people off in neighborhoods so that that they can sell magazines after that you can become a junior manager it's not easy to do and a lot of females are not promoted into that position after Junior manager you will get your contract and you will be a manager where you have agents working underneath you so it's agent team [ __ ] queen [ __ ] car Handler Junior manager manager or owner whatever the way that they were able to make money doing this is that back in the day there were these Clearing Houses and they would get the magazines subscriptions for like $2 $5 and these are you know 3 to 5 year long subscriptions and then we would sell them for $5 and I know that the price moved up as I left magazine crew really isn't a thing anymore they've transitioned and now they're like selling solar panels or energy or something like that I don't know another really kind of gross practice when it comes to these Crews is that I was a queen [ __ ] queen bee I even have the crew numbers tattooed on me again that's because I have a lot of friends that did that and I had a really overall positive experience on crew my boss was great but um one of the really weird things is that because of my rank on crew I was not allowed to date somebody of a lower rank I couldn't date an agent I couldn't date anyone below me and it was just weird they wanted the queen [ __ ] to date managers or date a king and it was just strange you know what I mean um people that were not a team or a queen or a king they got treated less than every single day um they had to do other things that I would never have to do um girls don't have to pump gas but if I was a guy and I had the least amount of sales that day I would have to sit in the very back of the van that they call Wheel [ __ ] I would be mocked I'd be called a wob which means a weak ass [ __ ] um I'd have to pump the gas I'd have to run errands maybe I'd have to roll a blunt for one of the managers like I would be treated like crap as a guy if I didn't do that well and I had the least amount of sales um the people with the most amount of sales sit in the front of the vehicles and the people with the least amount sit in the back and for the guys it is a little bit harder having to do stuff like that like pump gas run errands it doesn't sound like a big deal but they're also talking mad [ __ ] to you while you're doing that managers will make the guys do their laundry and do all kinds of [ __ ] for them if they're not you know getting money and if they're not producing the way that they expect them to sometimes they would resort to Ence so um it was my first week on crew and this one guy was going to go to a different crew and he kind of whispered that to me and it was an earshot of someone else that heard it and I'm like no I'm just going to stay here I don't want to like meet more new people my first week was kind of rough but I was promoted to team [ __ ] the first week queen [ __ ] the second week it was the fastest that they had ever seen anyone come up so there was rumors that I had done that previously and that I was going to try to crew hop and and go to another crew so when someone else overheard this guy saying hey Jess why don't you come with me I'm going to go to a different crew I'm going to go back to my original crew This Crew is whack whatever he was saying whatever crazy [ __ ] he was saying I'm like no I'm good I'm I don't want to start over anywhere else I think I'm going to stick it out here um that got back to my GM who I am still friends with and shout out to you Joey you were an amazing GM also that dude has the [ __ ] memory of an elephant I could call Joey right now and be like hey do you remember what this dude's name was and where we were at he'll be like yeah his name was Bob he was wearing a orange shirt and we were at the Holiday Inn in the offices in room 113 like he'll just remember every single little detail about anything it's crazy dude's an alien anyway he flipped the table up my GM flipped the table up and started yelling at this guy that was going to try to steal me and then go to a different crew cuz I guess he was telling other people that as well and he got his ass beat like really bad the violent part of it really isn't even the worst of the worst though you know but um just to talk about that a little bit more getting in fights on crew was something that was very common for my crew it's not something that would happen in you know other people's Crews if they banned liquor that was one of the rules that another crew had and they were always at the top of the bar charts um they you know they put up a lot of sales and they ran up a clean crew for the most part something that I think my boss didn't really do very well is that he would let people drink um I I definitely was caught a couple of different times bringing hard drugs into the hotel their policy was weed you can smoke weed you can drink a little bit no hard drugs or you're gone and I you know I remember I really pushed the boundary with that quite a lot um my boss was always giving me cutting me a lot of slack because I was a cash cow and I brought in a lot of sales and I think that was a mistake that he made he should have been really hard on me in my personal opinion because I knew that I could get away with a lot of things and that's the thing with these Crews like as long as you're like putting up crazy numbers they're not going to fire you more often than not no matter how crazy your behavior is but I will always be grateful to my boss on that crew he let me go back you know a bunch of different times he let me detox in a hotel for 2 weeks and and get right and that was you know that's exactly what happened the last time I was on crew I ran away from New York detoxed in a hotel in Virginia we traveled around the country I realized colled on the low one of the worst days was I I think we were in Kansas or something from Virginia and I was putting up crazy numbers I was doing so good I was very consistent um it was me and my friend Doug who passed away a few years back um we were killing it you know we were making tons of money but uh my boss came into my hotel room and he sat down and he's like I'm just so proud of you Jess you got sober and you're doing it and you're setting such a good example for all the other people on crew and this is the best you've ever done I'm so proud of you keep up the good work and he walked out I felt this big because I knew that I had to run and leave because I was going to detox again and I just could not look him in the eye and tell him I've actually been doing heroin this entire time from Virginia um gutwrench so I did exactly that I left and I went to Arkansas and I never went back because I went to prison you know so there was a lot of up and downs ups and downs for me personally on crew this is kind of the worst thing that I think happens with these Crews sometimes they will hire a minor and um this is something that I saw happen one time within our camp uh this girl slipped through the cracks and that should have never happened they ID everyone and all of that but I know that other Crews hire miners especially if you're like a couple weeks away from your 18th birthday they will make an exception and they will bring you on crew and that is just so messed up it is so messed up that a lot of Crews do that so um top of the list is going to really lwi income neighborhoods and getting people to join the crew another one is making you feel trapped there or kicking your ass if you want to leave and then of course hiring miners top of the list not okay and a lot of those managers weren't even paying their taxes and they left crew or quit with huge tax bills or you know warrants in other states for getting arrested for selling magazines door too I may or may not have a warrant out of Texas um that I'm I'm working on taking care of it should be it should be good by now but you know you'll leave crew and start a life and then you'll you know realize oh wait I got arrested and never went back to court for that so it just kind of ruins some people's lives you know there's a lot of long-term consequences when it comes to Crews like that a tax bill will be one of them sometimes it's trauma sometimes you know you'll be stranded in a different [ __ ] State and you'll have no means or resources to get home it could also lead to trafficking but I do believe that this is kind of a form of trafficking and I'm sorry that I didn't talk about that sooner I really just talked about this from my point of view I had a positive experience for the most part even though I you know did see some crazy [ __ ] but I didn't take into account other people's really traumatic experience when it comes to these kinds of Crews and I didn't talk about the ethical issues with that my entire career and I don't know why I don't know why I just thought like well that didn't happen to me so I shouldn't talk about it but I was wrong for that because I have the platform that I have I should shed light on these kinds of things and I'm sorry that I didn't do that sooner this is very random but burner was actually on a magazine crew and I know all the people that he worked with he only did it for a few weeks but he knows exactly what I'm talking about too and that was such a interesting thing to learn when we first met that oh my God you've done exactly this that's crazy it's such a small world let me know in the comment section down below if you have ever worked on one of these Crews whether it's magazines cleaner vacuums meat whatever it is let me know if you have any kind of experience with this in the comment section I'm going to end today's video here as always I love you guys stay safe stay sober whatever that looks like to you and I'll see youall in my next one [Music]

okay so this video has been a long time coming because I don't think that I accurately depicted magazine crew from my earlier videos like way back in the day so I'm going to be talking about magazine crew and like the dark side of it and the not so fun aspects of a traveling sales crew and any of my personal friends that I was with on magazine crew any former bosses you guys know that what I'm about to say is true so don't even don't call me don't text me if you're new here hi my name is Jess I'm a in long-term recovery that has in fact been to prison T it's not a flex it's just a fact if you want to follow me on any other social media platform Tik Tok Instagram patreon that's $2 it's only ever going to be $2 all of that is linked down below as well as my Vlog Channel my podcast my Facebook Spotify all of the things without further Ado let's kick this thing [Music] off okay if you don't know my story I worked on a traveling sales company from like 19 to like 22 23 on and off very sporadically it was not something that I was ever going to be a lifer for essentially I used this traveling sales crew to go on the run from parole and charges out of New York and the perfect thing to do not that I'm trying to teach youall how to break the law God that sounds bad um but the perfect thing in my mind back then in my very young teenage and early adult mind was hey uh let's go on the Run and you know travel the country we can make a little bit of money and not go back to jail huh sounded like a good idea and I was introduced to this sales crew they sold magazine subscriptions and over the years you guys have been like wait like magazines like magazines like no dude like ESPN home and gardening Maxim like magazines that you read like an actual magazine and I have told you guys historically that my experience on magazine crew was relatively positive because it was was I didn't experience a lot of the things that a lot of other people did nor did I recognize their really bad tactics in recruiting people and getting people to join and then worse getting people to stay one of the really dark things that magazine Crews do and not just magazine Crews a lot of traveling sales companies do this now they'll sell anything from magazine subscriptions to vacuum cleaners actual cleaner like spray cleaner um meat you know like steak stuff like that so there's companies that travel the country and sell all kinds of [ __ ] and yeah these are the tactics that they use they will go into neighborhoods sometimes college campuses um but historically they will go into lower income neighborhoods and they will recruit people that are 18 to 25 that are struggling financially that want to travel the country and they will recruit them to come onto the crew with all of these promises you know you're getting get to travel the world you're going to get to get the hell out of here and it's going to be so fun you get cash every day and we really have a solid family here and we just have a great time we work hard but we party harder we go to concerts we get tattoos we earn all of this jewelry so that will sell anyone that is struggling financially or you know any you know young adult that wants to travel the country and get the heck out of whatever circumstance they're dealing with um sometimes these people are homeless and they meet them you know holding signs or panhandling or whatever and they'll be like man you don't have to do that you can come with us have a better life the problem with that is once you you know go to these Crews they don't want you to leave they want you to stay there and earn money and uh if you don't stay there then a lot of times they will just abandon you in whatever City that they're at sometimes you'll get a bus Tock get home you know my boss that's something that I will always say I had a really good experience I had a positive experience um my B his name was Josiah and he was great at that he would give you a bus ticket and make sure that you got home however other managers within his camp and other camps would not provide a bus ticket to somebody that wanted to leave um you know I did see that quite a few times and there would always be like this really weird reason as to why like the person that wants to quit pissed off a manager or they did something or um I think a really common lie was oh this person they wanted to quit but they were stealing our people people they wanted to steal our people and leave or they got into a relationship with a team [ __ ] queen [ __ ] explain that a second and they're going to take her they're going to quit but they want her to leave too and then that person would get jumped for that so there was always drama there was always violence and it really just was not what it seemed if you guys have ever seen the movie American honey it's similar to that but there's a lot of inaccuracies there because it's a movie and it's Hollywood let me explain the levels to you guys um when you first get hired you're an agent and that just means that you have not made enough sales to move up in your rank so there's agent and then there's team [ __ ] or team [ __ ] if you're a guy um that means you've made x amount of sales in a onee time period and you've now been promoted it means you're going to make more money stuff like that you're going to be able to you know have more freedom in the hotel and it's just all around better for you your percentages are high higher especially though when you're selling a magazine subscription which one Magazine subscription a 3year to 5year subscription $50 to $75 I have no idea how much it even is now but absolutely ridiculous prices so after team [ __ ] or team C there is queen [ __ ] or kingcock after that you can be promoted to a car Handler which means you will be driving one of the Vans or one of the vehicles and you'll drop kids off kids you'll drop the people off in neighborhoods so that that they can sell magazines after that you can become a junior manager it's not easy to do and a lot of females are not promoted into that position after Junior manager you will get your contract and you will be a manager where you have agents working underneath you so it's agent team [ __ ] queen [ __ ] car Handler Junior manager manager or owner whatever the way that they were able to make money doing this is that back in the day there were these Clearing Houses and they would get the magazines subscriptions for like $2 $5 and these are you know 3 to 5 year long subscriptions and then we would sell them for $5 and I know that the price moved up as I left magazine crew really isn't a thing anymore they've transitioned and now they're like selling solar panels or energy or something like that I don't know another really kind of gross practice when it comes to these Crews is that I was a queen [ __ ] queen bee I even have the crew numbers tattooed on me again that's because I have a lot of friends that did that and I had a really overall positive experience on crew my boss was great but um one of the really weird things is that because of my rank on crew I was not allowed to date somebody of a lower rank I couldn't date an agent I couldn't date anyone below me and it was just weird they wanted the queen [ __ ] to date managers or date a king and it was just strange you know what I mean um people that were not a team or a queen or a king they got treated less than every single day um they had to do other things that I would never have to do um girls don't have to pump gas but if I was a guy and I had the least amount of sales that day I would have to sit in the very back of the van that they call Wheel [ __ ] I would be mocked I'd be called a wob which means a weak ass [ __ ] um I'd have to pump the gas I'd have to run errands maybe I'd have to roll a blunt for one of the managers like I would be treated like crap as a guy if I didn't do that well and I had the least amount of sales um the people with the most amount of sales sit in the front of the vehicles and the people with the least amount sit in the back and for the guys it is a little bit harder having to do stuff like that like pump gas run errands it doesn't sound like a big deal but they're also talking mad [ __ ] to you while you're doing that managers will make the guys do their laundry and do all kinds of [ __ ] for them if they're not you know getting money and if they're not producing the way that they expect them to sometimes they would resort to Ence so um it was my first week on crew and this one guy was going to go to a different crew and he kind of whispered that to me and it was an earshot of someone else that heard it and I'm like no I'm just going to stay here I don't want to like meet more new people my first week was kind of rough but I was promoted to team [ __ ] the first week queen [ __ ] the second week it was the fastest that they had ever seen anyone come up so there was rumors that I had done that previously and that I was going to try to crew hop and and go to another crew so when someone else overheard this guy saying hey Jess why don't you come with me I'm going to go to a different crew I'm going to go back to my original crew This Crew is whack whatever he was saying whatever crazy [ __ ] he was saying I'm like no I'm good I'm I don't want to start over anywhere else I think I'm going to stick it out here um that got back to my GM who I am still friends with and shout out to you Joey you were an amazing GM also that dude has the [ __ ] memory of an elephant I could call Joey right now and be like hey do you remember what this dude's name was and where we were at he'll be like yeah his name was Bob he was wearing a orange shirt and we were at the Holiday Inn in the offices in room 113 like he'll just remember every single little detail about anything it's crazy dude's an alien anyway he flipped the table up my GM flipped the table up and started yelling at this guy that was going to try to steal me and then go to a different crew cuz I guess he was telling other people that as well and he got his ass beat like really bad the violent part of it really isn't even the worst of the worst though you know but um just to talk about that a little bit more getting in fights on crew was something that was very common for my crew it's not something that would happen in you know other people's Crews if they banned liquor that was one of the rules that another crew had and they were always at the top of the bar charts um they you know they put up a lot of sales and they ran up a clean crew for the most part something that I think my boss didn't really do very well is that he would let people drink um I I definitely was caught a couple of different times bringing hard drugs into the hotel their policy was weed you can smoke weed you can drink a little bit no hard drugs or you're gone and I you know I remember I really pushed the boundary with that quite a lot um my boss was always giving me cutting me a lot of slack because I was a cash cow and I brought in a lot of sales and I think that was a mistake that he made he should have been really hard on me in my personal opinion because I knew that I could get away with a lot of things and that's the thing with these Crews like as long as you're like putting up crazy numbers they're not going to fire you more often than not no matter how crazy your behavior is but I will always be grateful to my boss on that crew he let me go back you know a bunch of different times he let me detox in a hotel for 2 weeks and and get right and that was you know that's exactly what happened the last time I was on crew I ran away from New York detoxed in a hotel in Virginia we traveled around the country I realized colled on the low one of the worst days was I I think we were in Kansas or something from Virginia and I was putting up crazy numbers I was doing so good I was very consistent um it was me and my friend Doug who passed away a few years back um we were killing it you know we were making tons of money but uh my boss came into my hotel room and he sat down and he's like I'm just so proud of you Jess you got sober and you're doing it and you're setting such a good example for all the other people on crew and this is the best you've ever done I'm so proud of you keep up the good work and he walked out I felt this big because I knew that I had to run and leave because I was going to detox again and I just could not look him in the eye and tell him I've actually been doing heroin this entire time from Virginia um gutwrench so I did exactly that I left and I went to Arkansas and I never went back because I went to prison you know so there was a lot of up and downs ups and downs for me personally on crew this is kind of the worst thing that I think happens with these Crews sometimes they will hire a minor and um this is something that I saw happen one time within our camp uh this girl slipped through the cracks and that should have never happened they ID everyone and all of that but I know that other Crews hire miners especially if you're like a couple weeks away from your 18th birthday they will make an exception and they will bring you on crew and that is just so messed up it is so messed up that a lot of Crews do that so um top of the list is going to really lwi income neighborhoods and getting people to join the crew another one is making you feel trapped there or kicking your ass if you want to leave and then of course hiring miners top of the list not okay and a lot of those managers weren't even paying their taxes and they left crew or quit with huge tax bills or you know warrants in other states for getting arrested for selling magazines door too I may or may not have a warrant out of Texas um that I'm I'm working on taking care of it should be it should be good by now but you know you'll leave crew and start a life and then you'll you know realize oh wait I got arrested and never went back to court for that so it just kind of ruins some people's lives you know there's a lot of long-term consequences when it comes to Crews like that a tax bill will be one of them sometimes it's trauma sometimes you know you'll be stranded in a different [ __ ] State and you'll have no means or resources to get home it could also lead to trafficking but I do believe that this is kind of a form of trafficking and I'm sorry that I didn't talk about that sooner I really just talked about this from my point of view I had a positive experience for the most part even though I you know did see some crazy [ __ ] but I didn't take into account other people's really traumatic experience when it comes to these kinds of Crews and I didn't talk about the ethical issues with that my entire career and I don't know why I don't know why I just thought like well that didn't happen to me so I shouldn't talk about it but I was wrong for that because I have the platform that I have I should shed light on these kinds of things and I'm sorry that I didn't do that sooner this is very random but burner was actually on a magazine crew and I know all the people that he worked with he only did it for a few weeks but he knows exactly what I'm talking about too and that was such a interesting thing to learn when we first met that oh my God you've done exactly this that's crazy it's such a small world let me know in the comment section down below if you have ever worked on one of these Crews whether it's magazines cleaner vacuums meat whatever it is let me know if you have any kind of experience with this in the comment section I'm going to end today's video here as always I love you guys stay safe stay sober whatever that looks like to you and I'll see youall in my next one [Music]

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The Dark Side of Magazine Crews