Misleading hiring interview. This is technically a B2B position but your are given dead cold leads and are expected to make something out of nothing. You can literally make 100 calls a day and be told where to stick it on 99.5 of them. The customers you are dealing with are mom and pop pizza owners and do not generally welcome calls from sales people, if at all.
Be careful when negotiating salary. You are technically paid hourly and must clock in on the dot. Your "salary" is based on your 45 hour work week. So if you miss your five hours of overtime because your kids threw up, sorry no dice. No paid holidays until you have been there 90 days, so again, there goes your overtime during those weeks.
No vacation for over a year. Yep, you begin to accumulate vacation after a full year of employment so that you wont have 2 weeks until after 2 years of employment. You will be allowed 3 sick days after 90 days of employment.
They will promise potential but be warned, the top 3 sales people account for 90% of the revenue and are the only ones that are truly happy. If you ask a manager for help, he'll say "figure it out, we did." There are maybe 20% of the people that have been there for over a year. These are the people that will interview you. Ask anyone else on a personal level and they will tell you they are unhappy and looking for other opportunities. The place is a revolving door.
The atmosphere is unlike any place you have ever worked. To come or go you have to enter your social security number, retina scan your eyes to get in the building, and retina scan to get in the office. After doing that a few times a day and staring at a screen under fluorescent lights, you are well on your way to being brain washed. Oh, and the "scent system" recently installed will barrage you with who knows what kind of chemicals being dropped on you from above. Ask someone what you smell like when you get home. The music is nice at first but then you realize it's the same 10 songs on a loop being played all day. The managers will encourage you to "just drink the cool aid."
