They didn't rip me off (not the way they did their customers) but they did deceive me. In 2001 my husband and I were both suddenly unemployed at the same time. I answered an ad in the newspaper for an administrative assistant position and Bernard Haldane called me for an interview. I didn't know they meant to hire me to work in their offices until I got there. The woman interviewing me seemed to take a sneaky delight in my confused state.

Desperate for a job I accepted the job offer. I was very busy as their office staff seemed to come and go like the wind. That should have clued me in but I really needed the job so I just kept plugging along. After two months it was clear to me from watching the process and activity that Bernard Haldane had NO PRODUCT. They made up this crappy resumes that after a time I started to punch up (word processing techniques) to make the resume look somewhat professional.

They had me upkeep their "secret" data bases on the computers. Mostly it was old web sites like Monster that anyone with a computer could access for free. Their training materials which I photocopied were basically junk...stuff you could print off the internet for free.

Then my husband got an email from Bernard Haldane and I realized they were email spamming. I made the mistake of mentioning it to two of the salesmen, one of which was married to the top judge of the county's court house and surely he and she both knew he was scamming people.

Surprise, surprise, at the end of the month I was fired. I had become someone who knew too much about Bernard Haldane's grand illusion of deception and lies. I wanted to report them to the state but I had nothing to prove what I was saying and I'd have been looked at as a disgruntled ex-employee.

To this day it bothers me that the money I earned working there for three months came from stealing from people who were out of work and in dire straits. I will always feel guilty about that even though at the time I started working I believed Bernard Haldane to be a legitimate company.


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