Here's how it works: They put a handful of canvass managers on salary at <$25K/year. In my time, managers put in 70-90 hrs per week.
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To recruit canvassers, these managers post flyers all around the city promising that YOU CAN MAKE THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS FOR COLLEGE.
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The express recruiting pitch is, let's find young people who REALLY NEED MONEY to come be fundraisers for us.
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The typical applicant for this job has zero experience with politics or activism. We were their first experience of Making Change.
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So these mostly-poor, often-idealistic, totally-inexperienced kids come in and are told they're gonna help make a better world. Big promise!
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Then we taught those kids "the rap," a fixed, unalterable script for hitting up suburbanites for cash on their doorstep.
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If you can learn the rap, we're putting you on the street that night. Can't learn the rap by rote within ~2 hours? Sorry, you're fired.
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New canvassers are given exactly 3 days to hit the minimum -- I think it was $110 or $140 raised in a 4-hr shift -- at least once.
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If you can't memorize the rap quickly enough, you're fired. Memorize it but fail to squeeze a benjamin out of strangers? Fired.
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Our burn rate on new hires would make any management professional worth half a tinker's damn throw up.
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We would routinely lay off upwards of 75% of the kids who came in.
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It's not that those kids were destined to be Change Agents and Leaders of the Socialist Vanguard until we fucked em over or anything.
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