Job is falseley advertised - SP1 Lead Setter Avolta Employee Review

Avolta = Brio Energy = Bello Solar The company has changed names many times due to complaints with home owners and police. Also most of the reviews on GlassDoor are not accurate, I suspect they are created by Avolta. The Friday before I started my first week on the doors, I texted my manager introducing myself and asking what the plan was for Monday. He never responded to me so I had to text my instructor and ask him what the usual plan is and thankfully he told me. Job is advertised as "$20/hr and paid training". Technically this is true although, the pay is based on the amount of hours worked. You only get paid $20/hr if you work a full 40 hours in the week which is nearly impossible. You do not get paid for driving to neighborhoods, and there is no paid break. They are very strict on time sheets and review your location when you were clocked in and take off time if you were not actively working. You get $19/hr for 39 hours and $18/hr for 36 hours and a dollar is taken away every 3 hours under 40. The training is paid training which is good. But it is only $12/hr and they give the impression it is going to be $20/hr. Training is basically a week long of learning the pitch and practicing while your classmates on zoom. It is from 10AM-5PM. On Tuesday of the training week you are expected to know the pitch well enough that the instructor thinks it is worth you being in the class. (one of my classmates got cut this day). On Friday of the training week you pitch to the managers and they give you a Pass/Fail on the pitch. The job is also advertised as a work day from 12PM-8PM, this is also not true. Every day there is a mandatory meeting at 10AM and the meeting is very repetitive and nothing constructive ever comes from it. They were telling me numbers that were expected from everyone door knocking and no one in my time here did anyone ever reach them. They want a prospect every 2 hours that you are clocked in. So if you work 40 hours they want 20 prospects that week. No one in my group ever got above 12 in a week. They also offer commission for your number of sits in a week. Which ever pay is higher (hourly or commission) is what you take home. The commission rates are $100/sit and $20/kW if a sale is made and most systems are around 7 kW. The sit percentage that I saw while I was working was around 40%-50% and the close rate was around 10%. Although this is a personal experience I figure I should share. My first day on the doors was pretty good but I slowly started to struggle. I ask my manager to come out on the doors to help me and even a phone call between me and him for some advice and really just a pep talk. He said he would and then never followed up with me after weeks of asking. Also they assign areas for you to go knock in and I asked multiple times for a new area to go to and my manager always said he would do it and never did. I was knocking in unsafe neighborhoods and in areas that people are just interested in solar. I knocked in the same area for so long I think I talked to every house and he still wouldn't assign me a new spot. This is not my experience but my co-workers. One of them knocked on a door and the home owner came out and punched him in the face. Another one of my co-workers got a gun pulled on him. Almost every one in the company has had the police called on them for soliciting. My manager told us that if we see cops coming to run away from them. Side note - I never received a pay stub for my first pay check even after asking multiple times. Overall, the company is ran very poorly and not well organized. I would not recommend this job to any one I know. There are much better door knocking jobs out there. It is impossible to get a full 40 hour work week, the expectations they say are possible are way too high, the managers are not helpful and just brag about how good they were back in the day and the closers do not close most appointments. I suspect they will be changing their name again soon because of lack of revenue. I would advise to stay away from Avolta at all costs.