The job postings they have, and even the interviews are misleading. This is a door-to-door sales job that operates on a MLM (legal pyramid scheme) complex. I didn't even realize it was door-to-door until we actually began knocking! The job posting doesn't mention it, and in the interviews they beat around the bush, even if you ask them flat out. You work 6 days a week, from 10am to 7-8pm. The higher up your role, the longer the hours. They expect you to be there everyday, walking outside in the heat, the rain, the snow. You work in a lot of towns that you don't even have permission to be in, and if you get caught soliciting you get a ticket you have to pay for out of your own pocket. When you are asked if you are soliciting, they teach you a smart-ass response even though we all know what you're actually doing. Pay is 100% commissions and bonuses. You get paid weekly which is good. You get your first 2 weeks as paid training but it only comes to maybe $600 total and takes forever for them to pay you. After that it's 100% commissions based on finalized sales, NOT how many you do. So even if you do 10 sales a day, if people cancel on you and only 3 sales finalize, you get paid on 3 sales. ALso, you have 'office time' in the mornings which is for training and to practice selling, but that part of your day isn't paid at all. You only get paid on your sales. Sometimes it takes sales weeks t finalize. No benefits. No base pay. No reimbursement or anything for the gas you use driving all over NJ to get to the area you're supposed to work. Promotions are based on how many people you have on your 'team' and their performance. You could be the best person in the whole office, but if your team quits for whatever reason, you don't get promoted. Anytime you don't make it 'on board' or 'hit the standard' for your sales, they blame it on you not pushing hard enough or having a bad attitude. They don't want to hear any excuse. You get kicked out of a town? Go somewhere else. You knock on doors for 6 hours straight and people aren't home to answer? Stay later and knock until 8:30pm. People don't want to stand outside with you while it's snowing? Find a way to invite yourself inside. People don't want what you're selling and aren't interested? You don't know how to close a deal. Everything goes back to you not being good enough. The people who make good money and get promoted are the people who do things that are borderline shady (they have rumors of forcing people to sign up or making fake sales by using people's information). Don't get me wrong, this is a real business who works with real companies like Verizon Fios. They do teach you to do things correctly and they will fire people for doing things that are sketchy or illegal. It just sucks that you work so much and don't even know how much you get paid since everything is based on customer's not cancelling. Your promotions are based on other people's willingness to work and not your own.
